Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan asks U.S. Supreme Court to hear his corruption case

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan took the long-awaited step Wednesday of asking the nation’s highest court to hear an appeal of the historic corruption conviction that could keep him behind bars until he is nearly 90 years old. The move comes three months after the federal appeals court in Chicago upheld Madigan’s February 2025 conviction, finding that trial evidence “exposed a sustained and concealed arrangement to exchange enormous political influence within the Illinois…