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Quick Hits Supplemental – E-Filing a Lawsuit is No Fun!

Quick Hits Supplemental – E-Filing a Lawsuit is No Fun!

July 16, 2019

Yes! In their inimitable wisdom, or perhaps after a week-long bender, the Illinois Supreme Court summarily decided that all civil lawsuits must be electronically filed.

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Quick Hits – Death by a Thousand Cuts

Quick Hits – Death by a Thousand Cuts

July 15, 2019

One of the “joys” of turning 60 is the imminent prospect of staring your own mortality squarely in the eye. In that very vein, that

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Quick Hits – So Much for the Least of Our Brothers!

Quick Hits – So Much for the Least of Our Brothers!

July 12, 2019

My preeminent intention was to stay out of this one in the fervent hope that cooler heads would prevail and it would all work out

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Quick Hits – Above the Law!

Quick Hits – Above the Law!

July 10, 2019

Trust me! I’ve been toiling at the keyboard long enough to know when I write, “Because they enforce the law, the Kane County State’s Attorney’s

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Quick Hits – Joe McMahon Was Never There – Part Two!

July 8, 2019

Let’s move on to the second installment in our two-part series on soon-to-be-departing Kane County State’s Attorney Joe McMahon. While the kind of KCSAO issues

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Quick Hits – Joe McMahon Was Never There – Part One!

Quick Hits – Joe McMahon Was Never There – Part One!

July 3, 2019

First, I want to thank those sources who, once again, made sure The First Ward was the first to break the news that, after two-and-a-half

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Quick Hits Breaking News – Joe McMahon is Not Running

July 2, 2019

A number of sources just told me that Kane County State’s Attorney Joe McMahon called his senior staff into his office this afternoon to announce

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Quick Hits – The Straight Pride Parade is Bleepin’ Hilarious!

Quick Hits – The Straight Pride Parade is Bleepin’ Hilarious!

July 2, 2019

Since some of you bleeps love to read just the column title and summarily dismiss the rest of the piece, please let me preempt your

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Quick Hits – Let the Democratic Self-Destruction Commence!

Quick Hits – Let the Democratic Self-Destruction Commence!

July 1, 2019

It certainly didn’t take a degree in theoretical physics for The First Ward to predict that, given the absurd 293 candidate Democratic presidential field, those

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