Share this article Share this article CHICAGO, April 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, Peoria Division, certified on April 19, 2021, a class consisting of all persons with mobility disabilities who were residents of the City of Pekin from December 11, 2016 through December 11, 2018 and who were denied meaningful access to public pedestrian rights-of-way in the City during that timeframe. Click here to view the Court's order and opinion. "This is incredibly significant," said Andrés J. Gallegos, founder and director of Robbins, Salomon & Patt, Ltd.'s (RSP), national disability rights practice. "It gets us closer to enabling the approximately 600+ residents of the City of Pekin who have mobility disabilities to not live confined in their homes because they cannot get around the City safely after years of begging for safe sidewalks," said Gallegos. "It is the beginning of literally getting our clients out of the streets and alleys where they risk their own safety to get around the City of Pekin for the absence of sidewalks, the deterioration of sidewalks, barriers placed on sidewalks, and the absence, in many instances, of curb cuts" said Jennifer Sender, RSP's lead litigator on this case.