CHICAGO -- 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 7.5 year sentence play out.

Madigan is scheduled to report to prison on Oct. 13, though the federal Bureau of Prisons has not yet assigned him a facility. The former speaker, whose 36-year reign in Springfield made him the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history, has already begun the appellate process, though his full arguments aren't due for another few weeks.

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U.S. District Judge John Blakey, who presided over Madigan's lengthy trial this past fall and winter and sentenced Madigan to his lengthy prison term in June, wrote in

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