1949: One-time Chicago Cub Eddie Waitkus, by then with the Philadelphia Phillies, became the inspiration for “The Natural” when he was shot in the Edgewater Beach Hotel by Ruth Ann Steinhagen, a ...

Flanked by attorneys and supporters, Illinois' former House Speaker Michael Madigan walks out of the Dirksen Federal Courthouse after being sentenced to 7 1/2years in prison and fined $2.5 million on ...

U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey sentenced Michael Madigan Friday in U.S. District Court in Chicago. After receiving a ...