For What It's Worth

The Judicial Evaluation Committee of the Chicago Bar Association is beginning the process of screening Cook County judicial candidates for ...

I've noticed a few nasty comments posted lately about particular individuals. In the dishonorable tradition of Internet comments on new...

A campaign website has been established for Judge James A. Shapiro. That's a link to the site in the preceding sentence; the link has ...

A fundraiser will be held Thursday evening, July 28, from 5-8:00pm, for Judge Helaine L. Berger, at the Parthenon, 310 S. Halsted St. The su...

Maritza Martinez is running for judge in Cook County's 11th Judicial Subcircuit. A campaign website has been established for Martinez....

A campaign website has been established for Judge Stanley L. Hill. That's a link to the site in the preceding sentence; a link has als...

A campaign website has been established for Judge Celia Louise Gamrath. That's a link to the site in the preceding sentence; a link ha...

A campaign website has been established for Judge James Kaplan. That's a link to the site in the preceding sentence; a link has been a...

Associate Judge Helaine L. (Lainie) Berger has announced plans to seek the Cole vacancy in Cook County's 8th Judicial Subcircuit. A camp...

Found on the Internet: A campaign website for Judge Kevin W. Horan. That's a link to the site in the preceding sentence; a link has al...

Found on the Internet: A campaign website supporting the election of Judge Peter Vilkelis. That's a link to the site in the preceding ...

In the news this week is a report that Mayor Emanuel has hired Waste Management and Metal Management Midwest to "take over half of Chi...

The Illinois Supreme Court has appointed Daniel Lawrence Peters, a criminal defense attorney with offices in southwest suburban Palos Hills...

Judge Deborah Jean Gubin, appointed last year to the 8th Subcircuit vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Maureen Durkin Roy, has annou...

According to Papi Perez, Deidre Buamann, who finished second to Judge William H. Hooks in the race for the countywide Berland vacancy in the...

Judicial candidates in Cook County will have to file more signatures to qualify for next year's ballot and no Illinois judicial hopeful ...

Judge Deborah Jean Gubin, who was appointed last year to the 8th Subcircuit vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Maureen Durkin Roy, h...

The Illinois Supreme Court has appointed Chicago family law attorney Regina Ann Scannicchio to the 14th Judicial Subcircuit vacancy created...

Updated 6/24/11 Updated 7/8/11 Updated 7/16/11 Updated and Republished 8/8/11 Most Cook County judicial vacancies aren't reall...

The Norwood Park Memorial Day Parade winds through residential streets in this Northwest Side community. My daughter Brigid captured these ...

The Illinois Supreme Court has appointed Oak Park attorney Michael R. Clancy to an 11th Subcircuit vacancy created by the retirement of Jud...

Overlawyered has a post today, "Plaintiff seeks phantom damages 6 times greater than actual costs” , citing to an article on the Color...

A kid from west suburban Villa Park has won the boys’ gold medal in the Under 14 category at the 41st World Irish Dance Championships , now...

The story in this weekend's Chicago Tribune , Madigan letters offer glimpse of clout in Cook County judge selection , will be seen by so...

That's the perhaps surprising conclusion of this article posted today on Yahoo! Finance. The April 12 article, by Kathy Kristof of CBS...

My wife and I had accumulated a couple of burnt-out compact fluorescent light bulbs, a bunch of dead batteries, and a pile of electronic jun...

Your local grocers may not be entirely motivated by concern for the environment when they urge you to bring cloth bags to carry home your p...

In Goodman v. Ward , the Illinois Supreme Court today ruled that a candidate for a subcircuit judicial vacancy must be a resident of the sub...

The increasingly popular Northwest Side Irish Parade today drew spirited demonstrations of support for each of the candidates in the upcomi...

Per email received from the ISBA's Joyce Williams, who (among other things) coordinates the sending and receiving of judicial candidate ...

Voter turnout in Tuesday's primary was just under 42%. Yesterday, Progress Illinois published this chart of voter turnout by ward : Note...

41st Ward Democratic Committeeman Mary O'Connor will face off against Maurita Gavin , an Administrative Aide to outgoing Alderman Brian...

In yesterday's post , we saw that, in Illinois, neither red light cameras nor Chicago Police surveillance cameras, like this one, can be...