At age 83, Michael Madigan will spend more than six years in prison at least. A brutal cap to his fall, but that doesn’t make it unjust.

Former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan was sentenced Friday to seven and a half years in federal prison and a $2.5 million fine in his corruption case.

Michael Madigan, the country’s longest-serving state House leader, served as speaker of the Illinois House from 1983 until ...

The former Illinois House speaker was convicted in February on 10 of 23 counts in a remarkable corruption trial that lasted four months.