Monday, May 30, 2016

Norwood Park observes Memorial Day

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The 2016 Norwood Park Memorial Day Parade was held this morning under picture postcard conditions. We can't have a parade without p...

What is a supermajority for?

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Tomorrow, unless something miraculous happens, another Illinois budget deadline will be missed. Illinois has become a national joke -- but...
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Sunday, May 15, 2016

Should a judicial hopeful's politics be taken into account when passing on his or her qualifications?

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You may have missed this article a few Sundays ago when it appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times : Rough Road To Judgeship For Top Aide To Anita...
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Thursday, May 12, 2016

BGA, Sun-Times, Law Bulltetin collect Kogan Awards; John Rooney receives Career Award

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Chicago broadcaster Geoffrey Baer provided the keynote address at this year’s celebration of the Chicago Bar Association’s Herman Kogan Medi...
Saturday, May 07, 2016

Great Strides Walk for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation May 22 at Diversey Harbor

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There's still time to register for, or donate to, the Great Strides Chicago Walk for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation . The event steps...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Cook County names 13 new Associate Judges

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The Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts has announced the names of the 13 newly elected Cook County Associate Judges. These are: ...
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Sunday, April 17, 2016

Appellate Court Justice Laura Liu passes away

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First District Appellate Court Justice Laura Cha-Yu Liu, the state's first Asian-American Appellate Court justice, died late Friday afte...
Monday, April 04, 2016

Guest post: Dr. Klumpp analyzes the 2016 judicial primary

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by Albert J. Klumpp First and foremost, last month's Democratic primary set a new record for judicial votes cast. Unofficially, the m...
Sunday, April 03, 2016

Getting behind some of the numbers in the judicial primaries

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Many people with whom I've discussed the outcome of last month's primary election mentioned voter anger and discontent as a motivati...

Continuing to look at the 2016 judicial primary results

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As you will note from the post below , the 2018 primary season is already underway -- can you believe it? Here at FWIW, we're still si...
Saturday, April 02, 2016

LAGBAC presents April 8 seminar for aspiring judicial candidates

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The Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago is presenting a free seminar on Friday, April 8, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m., at Hinshaw & Cul...
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Thursday, March 31, 2016

Guest post: Voter turnout and judicial elections -- lessons learned from 2016

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by Sean Tenner Cook County voters are to be congratulated for their vastly increased voter turnout in the March 15th Primary Election. Co...
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Starting to look at the judicial primary results

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I was going to get to this sooner... but then the AJ short list came out and bumped this off the top of the pile. Doesn't it seem like...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

CBA AJ ratings explained -- and a commercial

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In a comment to one of my posts about the current crop of Associate Judge finalists, an alert reader pointed out that one of these, Judge Ma...
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Sunday, March 20, 2016

Introducing the 26 Associate Judge finalists - Part II

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Updated and expanded once more 3/29/16 Updated and expanded yet again 3/24/16 Updated and expanded 3/22/16 In Part I , FWIW looked at th...
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Saturday, March 19, 2016

Introducing the 26 Associate Judge finalists - Part I

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Four Circuit Court judges, sitting pursuant to Supreme Court appointment, are among the 26 Cook County associate judge finalists announced y...
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