Jurors in the Michael Madigan trial on Tuesday afternoon closed out their fifth day of deliberations without reaching a verdict. The jury began their discussion last Wednesday afternoon, kicking off the final phase of a landmark four-month trial.

Only one note to the judge Tuesday for the fifth day of jury deliberations in the federal corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

Nearly four months after they were first called to Chicago’s federal courthouse, jurors have begun deliberating in the most consequential Illinois public corruption case in years: the

Prosecutors concluded their final summations Friday on Day 3 of closing arguments in the former speaker’s landmark trial by presenting an overview of how the various bribery and corruption schemes alleged in the government’s 23-charge indictment all come together under count one: racketeering conspiracy.

The Michael Madigan jury has ended its third day of deliberations without a verdict in Illinois’ highest-stakes public corruption trial in years.

After more than three months, the fate of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is now in the hands of a jury.

It was a well-known aphorism during former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s record 36 years in power that while others in the state’s political realm were merely playing checkers, the