Per Lexi Cortes of the Belleville News-Democrat, 36 people have been evicted from Granite City public housing projects in the years spanning 2014 to 2018 for violating the cities strict crime free housing ordinance. A number of these evictees saw … Continue reading
On New Year’s Eve, the night before the long-anticipated legalization of marijuana for recreational use in Illinois, Governor Pritzker pardoned over 11,000 people with low-level marijuana convictions. Illinois is the first state to include a process for those previously convicted of … Continue reading
Per Jaime Monks of the Chicago Tribune, Illinois governor J.B Prizker and a group of other democratic lawmakers in congress are looking to cap Insulin prices for Diabete patients at $100 out of pocket for a 30 day supply. An … Continue reading
In the 2005 political thriller, The Constant Gardener, Ralph Fiennes stars as a British diplomat in Kenya whose entire life is thrown into disarray when his wife(Rachel Weisz) is murdered. It soon becomes clear that his wife was murdered for … Continue reading
In a bizarre case, a 75-year-old licensed gun owner came out of his home to approach a group of teens that appeared at his house in the early morning Tuesday driving a Lexus that turned out to be stolen. He … Continue reading
– Aqua Illinois provides water to a number of communities including the 7,000 strong Village of University Park but on Friday they were sued because of lead contamination in that water. The lead isn’t news to them as Aqua actually … Continue reading
Although this blog usually covers Illinois legal issues, events such as the mass shootings that happened over the weekend in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio need to be covered because they affect all of us. I won’t give the … Continue reading
By: Tim Black The Birthday Train keeps chugging along and making stops here at LauraLaw. This past Friday, Laura celebrated her 32nd birthday (I swear!) and we weren’t going to pass up on ANOTHER chance to eat cake and shower … Continue reading
By: Tim Black We like to party! We like – we like to party! No, the Venga Bus is not coming, but July 12th came and went; which means we had a party to celebrate Maddy‘s birthday! If you know … Continue reading
Per the myjournalcourier, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is warning Illinois residents who were affected by more record floods in the state this past week to beware of scammers moving into these flooded communities to exploit victims. Disaster proclamations were … Continue reading
