...as the School Board Attorney/Executive Director of Legal Services and has been a part of SCPS Superintendent Dr. Walt Griffin’s District Leadership Team (Cabinet) for many years. She officially becomes...
DuPage County, IL. (ECWd) – Tornado hits the suburbs of Chicago, leaving 22,000 without power and 5 hospitalized. Meanwhile, Edgar County is still without warning sirens; they gave them all...
...a 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...
...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...