An Illinois Appellate Court recently dismissed the appeal by a former police officer of a pension board’s denial of pension benefits because he violated Illinois Supreme Court Rules when he filed an appellate brief almost wholly created with the aid
An Illinois Appellate Court ruled in favor of a public body in a FOIA case filed by a requester who claimed the public body violated FOIA when it consolidated his six FOIA requests in applying FOIA’s fee provision. Walters v.
An Illinois Appellate Court upheld a pension board’s decision to deny an application for pension membership in Kooistra v. Board of Trustees of Sycamore Police Pension Fund.A deputy chief in a municipal police department retired from that department and
In
response to a FOIA request seeking an electronic copy of an incident report,
a city denied the request and directed the requester to contact the city police
records department to purchase the report at a cost of $5 for
A tree service business owned property in a village’s general business district. The village informed the business owner that its use of the property was not permitted by the village’s zoning ordinance and conducted an administrative hearing on the alleged
Ancel Glink’s Quorum Forum recently released 98: E-Bikes and E-Scooters at the APA-IL State ConferenceIn this episode, Ancel Glink attorneys Tyler Smith and Eugene Bolotnikov
discuss options for local governments to navigate the current regulatory
landscape of e-bikes and
During the recent veto session, the Illinois General
Assembly passed a large mass transit bill (Senate
Bill 2111) which, among other things, would create the “People Over Parking
Act.” If signed by the Governor, the Act would take
The Illinois General Assembly passed a number of bills in the veto session that may be of interest to local governments, including HB 576 which creates the Public Official Safety and Privacy Act. While HB 576 was designed to protect
An Illinois Appellate Court ruled in favor of a sheriff’s office in a lawsuit challenging the sheriff office’s response to a FOIA request submitted by an arrestee who had been detained in county jail. Staake v. Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office.
The Illinois Appellate Court recently issued an opinion in a zoning challenge overturning a trial court’s ruling that a city’s zoning decision violated a neighboring property owner’s procedural due process rights. Clark v. City of Galena.In 2022, a developer
