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* George Bonomo: Horsemen ask for slots or bigger share of revenue

* Editorial: Time is right for civil unions in Illinois

Illinois would be doing nothing radical by adopting civil unions. In fact, it would be odd if lawmakers failed to enact this policy. Sound policy arguments and clear public opinion support this policy change.

* Illinois weighs rules for liability in civil cases

* Cell phone ‘lemon law’ proposed in Springfield

Mendoza has proposed a bill that would allow customers to leave their contracts, without penalty, if their cell phones need to be repaired or replaced three times because of a manufacturing defect.

* Making Illinois a movie magnet

* Illinois House advance Internet safety bill

* Should judges have to live in their own subcircuits?

The state Senate thinks so. It has unanimously passed a bill that would require judges elected from one of the county’s 15 subcircuits to continue living there — and to win retention from the subcircuit’s voters every six years — as long as they want to keep their seats.

* Editorial: Lawmakers respond to reports of towing abuses

* Full day Kindergarten may end up costing you

* Sun-Times Editorial: New CTA chief helps, but it will be an uphill battle

* Toll signs take new direction

* Editorial: Illinois’s “I-Pass” vs. Indiana’s “I-Zoom”

* 3,350 attend wake for Stephens

* Sunshine needed on Cook Co. Board of Review

The board oversees an ethical cesspool in which attorneys make fat political donations to board members and then win big assessment reductions for their clients. The process is hard for citizens to follow — doubtless by design.

* D.C. chief unsure about returning to Chicago

posted by Paul Richardson
Monday, Apr 23, 07 @ 7:39 am

Comments

The law of unintended consequences has been at work since the subcircuits were created. There have been judges who rented apartments in subcircuits where they did not live (and had no intention of ever living) to run in what they perceived to be more advantageous districts for their election. Others moved out of the subcircuits before the retention election. (Remember the “real addresses of Cook County Judges” expose a few years ago?) A judge who was alleged to have lived in Riverside, even though he was elected from a Northwest Side subcircuit, got into trouble with the Judicial
Inquiry Board.

The most ironic unintended consequence is that these subcircuits were ostensibly created to elect more suburban GOP judges. The Democrats are winning these subcircuits on a regular basis today as well.

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