Feds in Madigan trial continue to lay out ‘corrupt exchange’ between ex-speaker and ComEd

Michael Madigan was so important to ComEd’s legislative agenda in Springfield that the utility was willing to bend over backwards to make the then-powerful House speaker happy, showering his cronies with do-nothing contracts, giving special treatment to 13th Ward internship applicants, and putting a Madigan-recommended candidate on its board of directors, a federal prosecutor argued Thursday.

Alum Leonard Schaeffer donates $7 million to Evanston Township High School

The Evanston Township High School District 202 unanimously approved the district to accept a $7 million donation from alumni Leonard Schaeffer at its meeting on Jan. 13. Schaeffer, an alumnus from the class of 1963, will have the high school’s upgraded auditorium named after him. The donation will pay for it, and the auditorium will be named the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for the Performing Arts. Superintendent Marcus Campbell called the donation “an extraordinary act of generosity from one of our own.” According to Campbell, the seven-figure donation is the largest in the history of the ETHS Education Foundation. Previously, […]