(The Center Square) – Prosecutors walked the jury through energy legislation on Monday with a former utility attorney on the witness stand to illustrate the importance of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to the state’s largest utility in Madigan’s corruption trial. 

Prosecutors called former ComEd general counsel and Senior Vice President Tom O’Neill to the stand Monday morning instead of continuing with Illinois state Rep. Bob Rita’s testimony. Rita’s order in the witness lineup was changed at the last minute without explanation during the morning court session. 

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