March 31, 2014
Push To Expand Video Gambling Comes As Industry Continues To Grow From the Carbondale Southern Illinoisan When it comes to video gambling, the majority of the most lucrative sites in Illinois are bars...
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Lawsuits Allege Predatory Lending By HSBC, Bank Of America From the Chicago Sun-Times Cook County has launched a pair of lawsuits against two major banks, alleging that they helped cause the Chicago...
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Big Money Behind Push For 'Fair Map' In Illinois From the Chicago Tribune For the past two years, a well-funded and largely below-the-radar effort has been playing out across Illinois aimed at trying...
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GM Recall Concessions Hardly Mollify Plaintiffs Bar From the National Law Journal General Motors Corp.’s hiring of noted claims attorney Kenneth Feinberg has raised the possibility that it might set up...
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Lights, Cameras But No Action On Video In Cook County Courtrooms From the Chicago Sun-Times It’s been more than two years since Chief Cook County Judge Timothy C. Evans asked the Illinois Supreme Court...
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Disgraced St. Clair County Judge To Start Prison Term May 28 From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch A federal judge has ordered disgraced former St. Clair County drug court judge Michael N. Cook to report to...
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Voter Rights Amendment Passes Illinois House From the Springfield State Journal-Register The Illinois House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to approve a proposed constitutional amendment to block voter...
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With City Pension Bill, A Case Of Legal Deja Vu From the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin Four months after overhauling retirement benefits for state employees, legislators Tuesday again found themselves...
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Voter Rights Amendment To Appear On Ballot From the Associated Press Illinois voters will consider a constitutional amendment this fall aimed at scuttling attempts at voter suppression after Senate...
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How Quinn Is Betting On Insurance Companies To Rescue Illinois' Economy From the Crain's Chicago Business Gov. Pat Quinn's insurance director wants to conjure more of those special moments that brought...
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Commentary: Illinois Spends Millions Paying People For Their Tardiness From the Chicago Tribune Say you're scheduled to work at 8 a.m. Instead, you mosey in around 8:50 a.m.. Would you expect to be...
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Harris Spends $1 Million For Appellate Judge Post — Five Times The Salary From the Chicago Sun-Times Landing a position on the Illinois appeals court now comes with a bigger price tag, newly released...
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Medical Marijuana Entrepreneurs Decry Fees From the Chicago Tribune Vegetables, flowers and herbs grow in rows of green at Robert Boyce's greenhouses in Lake Zurich — but what he'd really like to grow...
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Med-mal Lawsuit Settles For $10 Million From the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin A Freeport man who became a quadriplegic after suffering a stroke has received $10 million to settle his medical-malpractice...
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Pressure Builds To Open Attorney Ethics Investigations From the National Law Journal The U.S. Department of Justice faces new pressure to make lawyer-misconduct investigations more transparent and less...
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Skokie Man Sues Over Denial Of Concealed Carry Permit From the Chicago Sun-Times A 69-year-old Skokie man filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court claiming the state unconstitutionally denied him a...
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Lawsuit Seeks Investigation Of Hiring Under Quinn From the Associated Press A Chicago attorney asked a federal judge on Tuesday to order an investigation into hiring under Gov. Pat Quinn, saying...
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Patronage Allegations Give Rauner Fodder In Race Against Quinn From the Associated Press Allegations painting a culture of patronage hiring in Gov. Pat Quinn's administration became an election-year...
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Illinoisans Have Lowest Home-state Opinions In The U.S., Poll Says From the Chicago Tribune Illinois residents think they live in the worst state in the country, according to a recent poll from Gallup....
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Illinois Democrats Consider New Minimum Wage Plan From the Associated Press Democrats have made increasing the state's minimum wage a core component of their campaign to keep the governor's mansion and...
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