Pete Rose, banned from baseball over gambling violations, is getting a measure of posthumous redemption through a pardon for ...

Imagine Chicago and Illinois without an effective local U.S. attorney’s office over the years. Michael Madigan, we believe, still would be Illinois House speaker. Ed Burke likely would be preening ...

Now that Trump is back in the White House, he and Putin will reunite in “The Donny & Poot Show” on FOX weeknights at 9 p.m. Expected guests include: Bashar al-Assad, Viktor Orban, Kim Jong Un, ...

Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy wants a pardon from President Donald Trump. And why not? Isn't everybody these days?

Prosecutors in the Justice Department section that handles public corruption cases have been told the unit will be ...

Precisely one month from the history-making moment former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was convicted of corruption, ...

Mayor Daniel Biss celebrated the vote, calling it “a crucial piece of our climate agenda and one of my campaign promises from ...

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Released two weeks into a 21-month prison sentence for a campaign finance conspiracy conviction, a former Tennessee ...

President Donald Trump issued a pardon to former Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey, who had pleaded guilty in a federal ...

Brian Kelsey, a Republican, pleaded guilty to illegally funneling money to his failed campaign for Congress in 2016. He later ...