Trial Still Ongoing

Is this jury sequestered? Are they in a five-star hotel or something?

• The jury in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's federal corruption trial went home without a verdict for the seventh day Thursday.

  There was again radio silence, with no notes at all coming from jurors, whose last communication to the court was on Tuesday. Even that was only regarding scheduling.

  If not for an unrelated sentencing hearing, courtroom 1203 remained mostly empty Thursday, as a jury of eight women and four men have now spent around 43 hours over seven days deliberating Madigan's fate.

There was a rumor somewhere that a jury member had some third or fourth hand connection to a Madigan associate a couple weeks back. Nothing came of it and the jury instructions were issued, so jeopardy has fully attached at this point. 

Either the jury is being really really thorough (but as the article says, "no notes" coming from the jury room) or there's a holdout or two, one way or the other.