By now everyone has heard about the aspiring police officer from Antioch who drove to Kenosha and killed two people. Predictably, my soci...

Yesterday, the Governor announced that Will and Kankakee Counties — known as Illinois' Region 7 — will be rolling back to phase three of ...

Speaking to the police, even for a little bit, can have serious consequences. If the police think you did something wrong, it can be disa...

Aurora maintains a list of "known habitual drunkards." Their names and photos are hung in bars and liquor stores and the city's liquor or...

Let's assume that you are a bartender. A woman walks into the bar who is obviously pregnant and orders a double vodka on the rocks. Can y...

Charging orders are one of the more confusing areas of judgment enforcement law. Ordinarily, a judgment creditor would serve a citation t...

When answering a plaintiff's complaint in litigation, the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure gives a defendant three options. He can either...

A Rockford, Illinois man was murdered in his driveway. A guy named Lorenzo Kent was arrested for the murder. At trial, the State introduc...

Barbara Bagley was the common law wife of Bradley Vom Baur. (Common law marriages are recognized in Utah, but not in Illinois.) In Decemb...

The Illinois Criminal Code was recently amended to include a new crime called "financial exploitation of an elderly person or a person wi...