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| | 401: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 February 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In March of 2012, Chicago police received a call about a person with a gun at the Dooley Park play lot at 3426 West 77th Street. Responding officers saw a group of children playing and a group of teenagers standing together. | | | | Date Created: | 02-20-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 115872 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069516 Original UID: 188414 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 402: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 February 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This is a proceeding under the Juvenile Court Act which is based on charges that this 16-year-old respondent is delinquent for violating weapons provisions of the Criminal Code of 1961. | | | | Date Created: | 02-20-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 116834 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069519 Original UID: 188418 FIRST WORD: In | |
| 403: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 February 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Two lawyers practiced together in one firm in Cook County. One of them was disbarred on consent in 2010. On behalf of that firm, he had filled out and signed a form on April 29, 2008, for renewal of legal malpractice coverage with plaintiff insurer effective May 1, 2008, through May 1, 2009. | | | | Date Created: | 02-20-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117096 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069520 Original UID: 188419 FIRST WORD: Illinois | |
| 404: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 February 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2008, defendant Anthony Boyce was in the Lawrence Correctional Center, serving a sentence of natural life for a 2001 murder, when he used the prison mail to post a series of letters which were intercepted and opened by prison officials. The letters never reached the intended recipient. | | | | Date Created: | 02-20-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117108 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069524 Original UID: 188424 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 405: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 March 16 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The question presented by this appeal is whether a candidate for municipal office isentitled to have his or her name placed on the ballot if the governing election board hasproperly calculated and announced the minimum number of valid signatures required bystatute to support the candidates nominating petition, but the candidates petition falls short of that legally mandated threshold. | | | | Date Created: | 03-16-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118929 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069525 Original UID: 188426 FIRST WORD: Jackson | |
| 406: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 March 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2006, defendant Country Casualty Insurance Company, through its agent, issued an automobile insurance policy to the plaintiff here. His fiance was subsequently involved in an accident in 2008 while driving one of his vehicles. Defendant insurer covered the loss, but required the insured to change his policy to include the fiance as an additional driver. | | | | Date Created: | 03-19-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117021 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069526 Original UID: 188427 FIRST WORD: Skaperdas | |
| 407: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 March 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Cook County environmental litigation involves a 40-acre landfill site near the intersection of Routes 30 and 83 in unincorporated Lynwood. It operated between 1995 and 2003. | | | | Date Created: | 03-19-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117193 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069527 Original UID: 188428 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 408: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 March 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Cook County Public Guardian Robert F. Harris is the plaintiff in this case, and defendant One Hope United is a corporation which contracts with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services to provide services aimed at keeping troubled families together. | | | | Date Created: | 03-19-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117200 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069528 Original UID: 188429 FIRST WORD: Harris | |
| 409: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 March 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A will contest is ongoing in the circuit court of McLean County. This appeal involves a discovery dispute within that litigation. The appellant here is attorney Matthew Tibble, who represents the Striegel accounting firm, from which information concerning the estate is sought | | | | Date Created: | 03-19-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117663 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069529 Original UID: 188430 FIRST WORD: Brunton | |
| 410: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 March 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This lawsuit seeking a damage award comes from Saline County. The defendants are the Sheriff of Saline County and the Clerk of the Saline County Circuit Court. On May 12, 2011, plaintiff Cowper pled guilty to retail theft and, after sentencing, was transported to the Department of Corrections on June 2, 2011. | | | | Date Created: | 03-19-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117811 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069530 Original UID: 188431 FIRST WORD: Cowper | |
| 411: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 March 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In Elmhurst, a couple who were not married and the womans adopted daughter lived together as a family unit between 2004 and 2008, when the woman moved out, taking the girl, who was then nine years old, with her. | | | | Date Created: | 03-19-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117904 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069531 Original UID: 188432 FIRST WORD: In | |
| 412: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 March 19 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Champaign County custody case was initially brought in 2010 by a father who lived there. The mother lived in Missouri, where the child had been born in 2009. The mother filed a written appearance and submitted to the circuit courts jurisdiction. | | | | Date Created: | 03-19-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118230 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069532 Original UID: 188433 FIRST WORD: McCormick | |
| 413: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 April 16 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A Cook County jury convicted this defendant of the March, 1999 aggravated criminal sexual assault of a woman which took place on the south side of Chicago. More than three years after the crime, he was arrested and charged, and his trial began in 2006. He received a life sentence, and the appellate court affirmed. | | | | Date Created: | 04-16-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 116949 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069533 Original UID: 188434 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 414: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 April 16 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In 2007, a Cook County home healthcare worker suffered the partial loss of the use of both hands after breaking both wrists when she fell down a flight of stairs. While her workers compensation claim was pending, the care recipient in whose home she had been working passed away. | | | | Date Created: | 04-16-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117418 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000069534 Original UID: 188435 FIRST WORD: Illinois | |
| 415: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 April 16 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The plaintiff in this Champaign County case is a doctoral student at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science. He was formerly employed by the universitys Cline Center for Democracy, where he coordinated research and information technology. | | | | Date Created: | 04-16-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 117485 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070489 Original UID: 188760 FIRST WORD: Leetaru | |
| 416: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 May 8 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In the fall of 2013, the General Assembly enacted a statute amending the Illinois Pension Code to reduce the retirement annuity benefits of individuals who first became members of four of the State of Illinois pension systems prior to January 1, 2011. | | | | Date Created: | 05-08-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 118585 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070491 Original UID: 188762 FIRST WORD: In | |
| 417: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 May 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In this McLean County case, the Illinois Supreme Court upheld a conviction for unlawful possession of cannabis with intent to deliver imposed on a defendant who was a passenger in a vehicle which was stopped because of what police claimed was an obstructed license plate. He was sentenced to 120 days in jail and 30 months of probation. | | | | Date Created: | 05-21-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 116223 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070492 Original UID: 188763 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 418: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 May 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This class action challenges the constitutionality of a section of the Counties Code which calls for the states Rental Housing Support Program to be funded by a surcharge collected by county recorders of deeds when they record real estate-related documents. | | | | Date Created: | 05-21-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 116226, 116825 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070493 Original UID: 188764 FIRST WORD: Marks | |
| 419: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 May 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A statutory post conviction proceeding can, potentially, consist of three stages. At the first stage, the circuit court may summarily dismiss if it finds the petition frivolous or patently without merit. | | | | Date Created: | 05-21-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 113135 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070495 Original UID: 188766 FIRST WORD: People | |
| 420: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2015 May 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A Kane County jury convicted this defendant of the April 2009 hold-up of a gas station in Aurora, and the circuit court imposed a 20-year prison term for aggravated robbery. | | | | Date Created: | 05-21-2015 | | | | Agency ID: | 116799 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000070496 Original UID: 188767 FIRST WORD: People | |
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