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Spotlight Politics: Madigan Indicted

Federal charges for the nation's longest-serving House Speaker. Our team on that and more.

03/02/2022 | Rating NR

Chicago Tonight

Spotlight Politics: Madigan Indicted

Clip: 3/2/2022 | 14m 35sVideo has Closed Captions

Federal charges for the nation's longest-serving House Speaker. Our team on that and more.

Federal charges for the nation's longest-serving House Speaker. What this means for Illinois' Democratic Party, public trust in state government, and for Michael Madigan himself. We dive into that and more in a special edition of Spotlight Politics with Amanda Vinicky, Heather Cherone and Paris Schutz.

03/02/2022 | Rating NR

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