From Power to Prison: Mike Madigan’s Sentence and the State He Ruined

From Power to Prison: Mike Madigan’s Sentence and the State He Ruined. This Reveille with Jeanne informs on how one man’s decades-long reign shaped Illinois into one of the most financially broken and politically corrupt states in America. Mike Madigan, once the most powerful Speaker in Illinois history, is now behind bars, facing seven and a half years for bribery and related crimes. But his conviction only scratches the surface.