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On December 13, 2023 the Chicago City Council passed an amendment to the Chicago Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance. The Ordinance guarantees up to five days of paid time off and five days of paid sick leave...

I received several calls to submit witness slips in support of the “COVID-19 Emergency and Economic Recovery Renter and Homeowner Protection Act” today.* Curious about the topic, I googled the bill’s title and...

Federal, state, and local governments – including Chicago – have recently announced several loan programs available to small-businesses negatively impacted by the coronavirus. These loan programs are specifically intended...

Last week, the Governor of Illinois, J.D. Pritzker, ordered the state-wide closure of dine-in services for Illinois bars and restaurants to help combat the spread of the Coronavirus. While we agree with our Governor’s...

The 2020 Illinois primaries are tomorrow – March 17, 2020. As always, I’d like to remind everyone that (a) Illinois state judges are ELECTED; and (b) because Cook County votes so predominantly Democratic, the primary...