Is the geographic remoteness of Illinois' state capital relative to most of the state's population a major contributing factor to its historically hig...

Cook County's Democratic leaders have spoken, and their choice for the replacement of disgraced ex-county commissioner William Beavers is a candidate ...

Moving trucks seen hauling boxes out of Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Chicago home on Wednesday raised questions concerning whether the ex-congressman, awaiting...

The long-delayed trial for Cook County Commissioner William Beavers finally reached a conclusion Thursday after a jury found the 78-year-old guilty of...

CHICAGO — A powerful Chicago politician fond of playing slot machines spent thousands of dollars from his campaign coffers at a casino and then ...

The delayed tax-evasion trial of Cook County Commissioner William Beavers is set to get underway with jury selection Monday in Chicago. Beavers has...

CHICAGO -- They elected a Harvard-educated Rhodes Scholar and ended up with a congressman who was convicted of having sex with an underage campaign wo...

Once again the Chicago City Council proved it's not ready for reform. Recently, the council voted unanimously to pass the second set of reforms proposed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Ethics Task Force, except as the reforms would apply to them.

-- Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan will be leaving prison and heading to a halfway house after serving more than five years for corruption. His depa...

CHICAGO — A well-connected businessman once known as the King of Clout for the enormous behind-the-scene influence he wielded in Illinois politi...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — As members of Illinois' newest General Assembly took the oath of office Wednesday, the state that's still struggling to rebu...

CHICAGO -- The city of Chicago is asking a judge to erase a landmark verdict that found there exists a code of silence in the police department that l...

CHICAGO -- The trial of an influential Chicago-area politician is being pushed back into next month. Jury selection was set to continue Tuesday in th...

Potential jurors in the William Beavers tax evasion trial will field questions about IRS audits and their feelings about gambling as the selection pro...

Updated story Another Illinois state lawmaker is in trouble with the Feds: State Rep. LaShawn Ford has reportedly been indicted on federal bank fra...

Two Chicago police officers filed a federal lawsuit Thursday alleging that high-ranking Chicago Police Department officials blacklisted them after the...

CHICAGO -- Since the heyday of the city's machine politics, punching a straight Democratic ticket on Election Day has been as dependable a Chicago tra...

CHICAGO — A federal judge sentenced former Illinois powerbroker William Cellini to a year in prison Thursday for conspiring to shake down a movi...

An 18-year veteran Chicago police officer was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly solicited and accepted a $5,000 cash bribe in return for letting a...

Updated story The Illinois House of Representatives on Friday took the historic move to expel one of its members for the first time in over a centu...

CHICAGO -- A federal court in Chicago on Monday denied George Ryan's latest appeal seeking his release from prison, dashing what was widely regarded a...

Chicago's history doesn't exactly help dispel the city's reputation for crooked politics (see slideshow below), but a recent series of attacks on the ...

Indicted old-school Chicago lawmaker William Beavers lashed out Thursday in a press conference against the recently-retired prosecutor who charged him...

A former Cook County Commissioner and an ex-Chicago alderman who previously spent time behind bars on a bribery conviction were among seven men arrest...