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Would-be #CookCountyJudicial candidates: You should always obey the laws of the State of Illinois... but sometimes you have to figure out ways around the laws of physics. Two Tuesday candidate forums present potential opportunity for prospective judges... leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/06/two-...
Two candidate forums on June 17 that may be of interest to would-be judicial candidates
The 38th Ward Dems, the Norwood Park Township Dems, Dems 45, 30th Ward Democrats, and 39th Ward Democrats will hold a Candidate Forum (the...
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June 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Would-be #CookCountyJudicial candidates: You should always obey the laws of the State of Illinois... but sometimes you have to figure out ways around the laws of physics. Two Tuesday candidate forums present potential opportunity for prospective judges... leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/06/two-...
Ginger Leigh Odom appointed to 1st Subcircuit #CookCountyJudicial vacancy leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/06/ging...
Ginger Leigh Odom appointed to 1st Subcircuit vacancy
The Illinois Supreme Court today entered an Order appointing Ginger Leigh Odom to the 1st Subcircuit vacancy created when Judge Carl A. Wal...
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June 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Ginger Leigh Odom appointed to 1st Subcircuit #CookCountyJudicial vacancy leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/06/ging...
Michael Cabonargi appointed to countywide #CookCountyJudicial vacancy leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/06/mich...
Michael Cabonargi appointed to countywide judicial vacancy
The Illinois Supreme Court has appointed Michael Cabonargi to the countywide vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Mary Ellen Coglan. ...
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June 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Michael Cabonargi appointed to countywide #CookCountyJudicial vacancy leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/06/mich...
Judge Daniel O. Tiernan announces bid for 8th Subcircuit #CookCountyJudicial vacancy leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/06/judg...
Judge Daniel O. Tiernan plans 8th Subcircuit run, campaign website established
Cook County Associate Judge Daniel O. Tiernan has announced plans to seek the Gamrath vacancy in the 8th Subcircuit. His campaign recently ...
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June 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Judge Daniel O. Tiernan announces bid for 8th Subcircuit #CookCountyJudicial vacancy leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/06/judg...
Judge Michael Zink announces plans to run for the 20th Subcircuit vacancy to which he was appointed leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/06/judg... #CookCountyJudicial
Judge Michael Zink announces plans to run in 20th Subcircuit, launches campaign website
Michael Zink, who was appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court to a 20th Subcircuit vacancy late last year, has announced plans to seek elec...
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June 5, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Judge Michael Zink announces plans to run for the 20th Subcircuit vacancy to which he was appointed leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/06/judg... #CookCountyJudicial
Illinois Supreme Court appoints Lester Finkle to #CookCountyJudicial vacancy leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/05/lest...
Lester Finkle appointed to 8th Subcircuit vacancy
Lester Finkle, a long-time Cook County Assistant Public Defender, who served as Chief of Staff in that office from 2015 to 2021, has been ap...
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May 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Illinois Supreme Court appoints Lester Finkle to #CookCountyJudicial vacancy leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/05/lest...
Proposed glove auction a slap in the fact to all Illinoisans leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/05/prop...
Proposed glove sale a slap in the face to all Illinoisans
The only time I ever saw these gloves was in September 2009. I was in Springfield, one of many volunteer chaperones for a group of middl...
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May 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Proposed glove auction a slap in the fact to all Illinoisans leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/05/prop...
CBA Orchestra & Chorus in concert on May 10 leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/04/cba-...
CBA Orchestra & Chorus in concert on May 10
The Chicago Bar Association Orchestra & Chorus will be in concert Saturday evening, May 10, at 7:30 p.m., at St. James Cathedral, 65 E. H...
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April 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
CBA Orchestra & Chorus in concert on May 10 leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/04/cba-...
Recipients announced for tomorrow's 25th Annual District Court Awards for Excellence in Pro Bono and Public Interest Service leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/04/tomo...
Tomorrow: 25th Annual District Court Awards for Excellence in Pro Bono and Public Interest Service
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois will present its Annual Awards for Excellence in Pro Bono and Public ...
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April 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Recipients announced for tomorrow's 25th Annual District Court Awards for Excellence in Pro Bono and Public Interest Service leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/04/tomo...
Illinois Latino Judges Association Spring Social set for May 22 leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/04/illi... #CookCountyJudicial
Illinois Latino Judges Association to hold Spring Social on May 22
The Illinois Latino Judges Association will hold its Spring Social on Thursday, May 22, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., at Chief O'Neill's Pub & ...
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April 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Illinois Latino Judges Association Spring Social set for May 22 leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/04/illi... #CookCountyJudicial
For the high school students in your lives: U.S. Dist. Ct. (ND Ill.), the Supreme Court Historical Society, and the ABA Division for Public Education to offer civics program focusing on Escobedo v. Illinois
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For the high schoolers in your lives: Learn about the workings of the federal judiciary *from* the federal judiciary
Look: I don't care how you acquire your news and information in the present age. I don't care what silo or tribe in which you claim membe...
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April 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
For the high school students in your lives: U.S. Dist. Ct. (ND Ill.), the Supreme Court Historical Society, and the ABA Division for Public Education to offer civics program focusing on Escobedo v. Illinois
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Nominations close May 1 for the Chicago Bar Association's 2025 Robert A. Clifford Champion of Justice Award leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/04/nomi...
Nominations close May 1 for CBA Robert A. Clifford Champion of Justice Award
The Chicago Bar Association is accepting nominations through May 1 for the Robert A. Clifford Champion of Justice Award. Established in 20...
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April 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Nominations close May 1 for the Chicago Bar Association's 2025 Robert A. Clifford Champion of Justice Award leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/04/nomi...
HLLSA Judge's Night tonight at Chicago-Kent leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/04/toni...
TONIGHT: Kent HLLSA to honor Judge Diana López
The Chicago-Kent Hispanic Latinx Law Student Association (HLLSA) will honor Cook County Circuit Court Judge López at its annual Judge's Ni...
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April 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
HLLSA Judge's Night tonight at Chicago-Kent leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/04/toni...
FWIW, FWIW has now achieved more than five million page views.... leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/04/fwiw...
FWIW passes the 5 million page view mark
Sometime in the last few days, when I wasn't paying attention, FWIW crossed the five million page view threshold. Here is a screenshot show...
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April 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
FWIW, FWIW has now achieved more than five million page views.... leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/04/fwiw...
Vanguard Awards Luncheon set for April 22 leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/04/vang...
Vanguard Awards presentation set for April 22
The 2025 Vanguard Awards Luncheon will take place on Tuesday, April 22 at the Union League Club , 65 W. Jackson Blvd. Luncheon will be se...
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April 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Vanguard Awards Luncheon set for April 22 leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/04/vang...
Tickets and sponsorships available for May 8 Illinois Jewish Judges Association Installation and Awards Dinner leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/04/jewi... #CookCountyJudicial
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April 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Tickets and sponsorships available for May 8 Illinois Jewish Judges Association Installation and Awards Dinner leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/04/jewi... #CookCountyJudicial
CBA Barristers Big Band Benefit Ball set for April 25 leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/03/barr...
Barristers Big Band Benefit Ball set for April 25
The Chicago Bar Association's Barristers Big Band will hold its annual Big Band Ball on Friday, April 25, at the Union League Club, in the...
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April 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
CBA Barristers Big Band Benefit Ball set for April 25 leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/03/barr...
Black Women Lawyers' Association Spring Fundraising Gala set for April 5; tickets (and sponsorships) available
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BWLA Spring Fundraiser Gala set for April 5
The Black Women Lawyers' Association of Greater Chicago, Inc. will hold its Spring Fundraiser Gala on Saturday, April 5, from 6:30 p.m. t...
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March 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Black Women Lawyers' Association Spring Fundraising Gala set for April 5; tickets (and sponsorships) available
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Illinois Latino Judges Association sponsors panel discussion for law students and prospective law students on March 31 leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/03/for-...
For the law students in your life: ILJA panel discussion for current and prospective law students
The Illinois Latino Judges Association will host a panel discussion on March 31, at 5:00 p.m., at the UIC School of Law, 300 S. State St....
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March 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Illinois Latino Judges Association sponsors panel discussion for law students and prospective law students on March 31 leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/03/for-...
Book Drive this month conducted by the U.S. Dist. Ct. for the Northern District of Illinois and the Chicago Chapter of the Federal Bar Association leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/03/us-d...
U.S. District Court Courthouse Book Drive
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the Chicago Chapter of the Federal Bar Association Chicago Chapter are c...
leyhane.blogspot.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Book Drive this month conducted by the U.S. Dist. Ct. for the Northern District of Illinois and the Chicago Chapter of the Federal Bar Association leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/03/us-d...
Black Women Lawyers' Association to hold Judicial Reception on March 20 leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/03/bwla... #CookCountyJudicial
BWLA Judicial Reception set for next Thursday, March 20
The Black Women Lawyers' Association of Greater Chicago, Inc. will hold its Judicial Reception on Thursday, March 20, from 5:30 to 8:00 p...
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March 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Black Women Lawyers' Association to hold Judicial Reception on March 20 leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/03/bwla... #CookCountyJudicial
This week marks the 5th anniversary of the start of the "two-week" shutdown to stop the spread of the #COVID19 virus. FWIW takes a look back and what we didn't know then... and what we apparently still don't know now....
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Covid fears, then and now: On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the start of the "two week" shutdown
The Covid lockdowns began five years ago this month. By early March 2020, ominous stories about this mysterious respiratory ailment – thi...
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March 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This week marks the 5th anniversary of the start of the "two-week" shutdown to stop the spread of the #COVID19 virus. FWIW takes a look back and what we didn't know then... and what we apparently still don't know now....
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Today on FWIW: @byamrcn.bsky.social analyzes spending in #CookCountyJudicial races during the 2024 election cycle leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/03/dr-k...
Dr. Klumpp analyzes spending in 2024 Cook County judicial campaigns
FWIW is once again pleased to present a Guest Post by Albert J. Klumpp, a PhD in public policy analysis with a national reputation for exper...
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March 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Today on FWIW: @byamrcn.bsky.social analyzes spending in #CookCountyJudicial races during the 2024 election cycle leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/03/dr-k...
FWIW stoops to blatant clickbait headline on this one... but the @americanbar.org is looking for volunteers to judge its upcoming Law Student Division National Advocacy Competition. leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/03/you-...
You too can be a judge!
At least for a day... or a couple of hours, anyway. Yes, this is an example of a clickbait headline... and I apologize for stooping so low...
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March 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
FWIW stoops to blatant clickbait headline on this one... but the @americanbar.org is looking for volunteers to judge its upcoming Law Student Division National Advocacy Competition. leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/03/you-...
Who Sits Where: Ash Wednesday edition (hopefully, now, a pretty complete list of current #CookCountyJudicial vacancies) leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/03/who-...
Who Sits Where: Ash Wednesday edition
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa ... appropriate words to recall at the start of this penitential season of Lent... and also a phrase ...
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March 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Who Sits Where: Ash Wednesday edition (hopefully, now, a pretty complete list of current #CookCountyJudicial vacancies) leyhane.blogspot.com/2025/03/who-...