Jorge Cazares campaign website found online

A campaign website is now live for 14th Subcircuit candidate Jorge V. Cazares (Jagielski vacancy). That's a link to the campaign website in the preceding sentence; a link has also been added to this site's candidate Sidebar.

Licensed in Illinois since 1990, according to ARDC, Cazares is a partner in the firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP.

His campaign website notes that Cazares was the first Latino to serve as General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer for the Chicago Housing Authority. After returning to private practice, according his campaign website, Cazares was appointed Chief Ethics Officer for the CHA and Chief EEO Officer for the CHA.

Before joining Hinshaw, Cazares worked for Altheimer & Gray (where, his campaign bio notes, he was the only Latino lawyer in the 250-person firm) and, later, Pugh, Jones & Hubbard, P.C. (which later became Pugh Jones & Johnson, P.C.). According to his campaign website, Cazares' "practice included the representation of clients in contract and business disputes, commercial litigation, employment discrimination, local governmental defense, civil rights defense, products liability, defamation, major personal injury defense, labor disputes and arbitrations, RICO, bankruptcy litigation, and commercial real estate litigation matters."

A graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep, Cazares did his undergraduate work at Yale before 'returning home' to attend the Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, according to his campaign bio. Cazares is a member of the Board of Directors of the Gads Hill Center and, according to his campaign bio, a founding member and Director of the Chicago Police Foundation. Cazares is fluent in Spanish, according to his campaign bio, and he and his wife of more than 25 years have raised their two sons to speak Spanish as well.