(The Center Square) – A former ComEd executive has detailed how he and others at the utility company dropped what they were ...

CHICAGO — A ComEd vice president testified Wednesday in the corruption trial of former House Speaker Michael Madigan that the utility giant was in severe financial straits leading up to its all ...

But after O’Brien later told Reyes Kurson that ComEd intended to cut the firm’s hours in the next contract, O’Neill said the reaction was swift. “What happened after that?” Assistant U.S ...

ComEd once found its fate tied so crucially to the Illinois Legislature dominated by Michael J. Madigan that the utility’s CEO was known to declare bluntly, “What’s important to the Speaker ...

Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Share ComEd once found its fate tied so crucially to the Illinois Legislature dominated by Michael J. Madigan that the utility’s CEO was known to declare bluntly ...

Today’s testimony focused on Comed’s successful attempts to pass a series of bills in Springfield between 2011 and 2016 that raised utility rates in return for upgrading the power grid system.

A large hole, construction signs and wood planks in the 600 block of East 50th Street in Grand Boulevard on Sept. 3, 2024, months after ComEd responded to a faulty pipe there. Credit: Colin ...

In 2011, as Thomas O’Neill was in Springfield pushing for legislation on behalf of utility giant ComEd, he heard one question over and over: What did Michael Madigan think of the bill?

In his place came ComEd's former General Counsel Tom O'Neill, who, in his day-long testimony, got to the heart of the corruption charges against Madigan and his co-defendant, Mike McClain.