McHenry County area was coping with back-to-back dangerous storms Saturday and Monday that brought brought tornado warnings and dangerous winds.

ComEd reported nearly 74,000 customers across northeastern Illinois were without power Sunday morning.

A federal judge on Friday denied former Illinois Speaker Michael Madigan’s legal arguments that he should remain out of prison while his appeal of both his corruption convictions and sentence play out

The utility company has ended applications for an assistance program meant to help customers with rising electricity costs after more than 70,000 applications were received within the first two weeks.

Longtime Chicago lobbyist Jay Doherty was sentenced Tuesday to a year and a day in prison for his role in a yearslong bribery scheme between his biggest client, electric utility Commonwealth Edison, and former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

The entrance to the parking deck in downtown Joliet will be closed for a few hours two days this week for construction work related to the Chicago Street project.

Longtime Springfield lobbyist Mike McClain, who spent years as a close friend and advisor to ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday for his role in a bribery scheme

Former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore on Monday was sentenced to two years in prison for her role in a yearslong bribery scheme meant to influence ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan

A former executive for electric utility Commonwealth Edison has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in bribing ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan for jobs and contracts for the Democratic power broker’s political allies

Federal prosecutors are recommending nearly six years in prison for ex-Springfield lobbyist Mike McClain, the longtime friend and advisor of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

At the public hearing for the 502-acre Project Steel data center development’s annexation, Mayor John Purcell wanted to make sure a portion of the revenue is guaranteed to the Yorkville School District 115.

The city of Dixon has signed a third party contract with MC Squared Energy Services effective June 17, 2025, for electrical service.

The rise of power-hungry data centers has placed significant demands on the electric grid at a time when the supply of electricity is stagnant or falling. This situation has already led to higher prices

The increased demand stems from data centers, increasing adoption of electric heat pumps and the rise of electric vehicles, according to NERC

The Citizens Utility Board blamed years of poor policies and planning by grid operator PJM Interconnection for the rate increase.

More than 40,000 customers were without power across much of northern Illinois Friday morning following Thursday night's severe weather.

The Project Cardinal proposal would be the city’s largest ever manufacturing development.

The Plano city council approved a $29,850 water model study and analysis by the engineering firm HR Green Inc.

Power restored Tuesday, April 29, to ComEd customers across Whiteside County.

Illinois faces potential energy shortfalls and all-but-guaranteed price spikes for northern Illinois this summer, consumer and environmental advocates say. Lawmakers and advocates in Springfield have proposed bills that they say would address their concerns

A federal judge granted a partial retrial on several bribery counts in the case of four former executives and lobbyists for electric utility ComEd who were convicted in 2023 for their roles in bribing longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan

It was a well-known aphorism during former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s record 36 years in power that while others in the state’s political realm were merely playing checkers, the longtime Democratic powerbroker was playing chess.

Jurors hearing former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s trial are finally scheduled to begin deliberations Wednesday afternoon more than three months after testimony in the case began.

As prosecutors began their closing arguments Wednesday in the trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, they accused the longtime Democratic powerbroker of lying to the jury when he testified in his own defense earlier this month.

Attorneys for former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan rested their case Thursday, marking the beginning of the end of the longtime Democratic powerbroker’s corruption trial.

Illinois utilities are set to invest more than a billion dollars into upgrading the state’s electric distribution grid, resulting in higher rates for customers around the state

A top federal prosecutor wasted no time Monday revealing to the jury in ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s trial that the latest witness the government called to the stand wasn’t there voluntarily

Acevedo is the star of the last episode that prosecutors are seeking to prove in Madigan’s bribery, racketeering and extortion trial

After an extraordinarily short day of trial Monday, jurors may only remember one detail: those high up in Gov. JB Pritzker’s 2018 campaign had nicknamed then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan “Sphinx.”

Danny Solis’ extraordinary cooperation deal will see the single bribery charge that was eventually pressed against him in 2022 dropped so long as prosecutors are satisfied with the truthfulness of his testimony in the trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan

Ed Moody testified that despite doing little to no work to earn the money, he spent nearly seven years collecting $4,500 each month, paid indirectly from electric utility Commonwealth Edison through a series of ComEd lobbyists connected to Michael Madigan

The jury got the full picture of how Mike McClain viewed his “assignments” from Michael Madigan, with whom he’d been friends since the 1970s

The ComEd exec-turned-FBI mole spent a fifth day on the witness stand Wednesday in Michael Madigan’s bribery and racketeering trial

Prosecutors have interpreted Madigan and McClain’s job recommendations as repeated solicitations of bribes from ComEd, alleging that in exchange, the powerful speaker helped push the utility’s preferred legislation in Springfield

After 3 tornadoes touchdown in Will County, thousands of residents remain without power. Will County Emergency Management Agency is working with ComEd to get service back. Salvation Army, Red Cross working to assist people.

Residents across multiple counties found themselves without power Tuesday following the massive storms that slammed across northern Illinois Monday night

ComEd has informed Geneva the recent outages on the west side have been caused by trees and wildlife. The outages have lasted less than one minute.

After almost three weeks, seniors displaced from the Joshua Arms Senior Residences in Joliet have been given approval to return to their apartments.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said the 2021 Climate and Equitable Jobs Act paved the way for companies like G&W Electric in Bolingbrook to invest in solar power projects.

State regulators are once again considering massive electric utility spending plans that would affect the state’s climate goals – and 5.4 million electric customers’ monthly bills – after rejecting previous versions late last year.

Com Ed's Joliet training facility hosted a graduation Friday for 53 apprentices who completed the second step training program to become full overhead electrical workers. The advancing of new employees is part of a larger plan by Com Ed to bolster the power grid for the future.

Illinoisans pay tens of millions of dollars each year to utilities to cover costs they accrue for lawyers, belonging to trade groups, making charitable contributions and purchasing advertisements meant to boost utilities’ public image.

Over 1,000 households in DeKalb County left without power following Monday's derecho storm could remain that way for days, according to Commonwealth Edison.

The damage to the Funleafs’ house in Genoa was caused by a derecho that swept across the Midwest on Monday.

Gov. JB Pritzker said Friday that Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan “must resign” if allegations of corruption are true against the fellow Democrat long considered the state’s most powerful lawmaker.

Aldermen acting as the Committee of the Whole unanimously recommended approval Monday of a $60,000 deposit to ComEd to do a detailed engineering plan to provide electricity to a proposed ninth substation on Geneva’s southeast side