Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has returned to the witness stand at his federal bribery and racketeering trial in Chicago. Madigan began direct testimony Tuesday at the Dirksen U.S.
A new Illinois General Assembly was sworn in for the next two years on Wednesday, with the House and Senate ceremonies taking two starkly different tones.
But the bill also created rifts within the House Democratic caucus. According to several sources, the hemp regulation bill was the focus of a three-hour closed-door caucus meeting Monday that some ...