...public purpose is wrong. As found on page 127 of the official state document on the issue of the use of public funds, property, and credit is not just about...
...Illinois in ways never imagined just a few years ago. We have been told the current stack of new laws in that bill is over 900 pages. While we have...
...generous timeline of 2 years, that it was finished at least by 2018, and should have been assessed at its market value for at least the last two years. The...
...The process of determining what a particular statute means so that a court may apply it accurately “Any question of statutory interpretation begins with looking at the plain language of...
Illinois (ECWd) – More often than not we find attorneys who represent public bodies tend to advocate for the desires of the public body, sometimes ignoring lack of authority for...
...“During the course of the last year and previously the Sheriff of Shelby County has entered into agreements with individual members of the Bargaining Unit to provide additional pay, additional...
...scheduled. The indictment was announced by John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; Emmerson Buie, Jr., Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Field Office of...
...in the Act that provides a cause of action against a public body for disclosure of information from a closed meeting. Swanson v. Board of Police Commissioners. 197 Ill. App.3d...
...“A Matter of Interpretation”: “A government of laws, not of men, means that the unexpressed intent of legislators must not bind citizens. Laws mean what they actually say, not what...
...upon the affirmative vote of at least 5 of its members”). Cooke agrees with this course of action, and the Committee raises no arguments to the contrary.” Considering the elevated...
