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AP Photos The cost of doing business and owning a home or car in Illinois could increase soon if a last-minute amendment from January’s lame-duck session is signed into law. House Bill 3360 was set to die, but at the 11th hour, Senate President Don Harmon of Oak Park introduced a loaded amendment that will drastically alter civil lawsuits. It passed the House a few days later on January 13 around 3 a.m. and is now before Gov. J.B. Pritzker for his review. Opinion Excessive litigation already costs Illinois businesses more than $18.9 billion annually. At a personal level, that comes out to...

PohlmanUSA Expands eFiling Solutions into Cook County, Illinois to Meet Increased Demand for Remote Services ST LOUIS, MO / ACCESSWIRE / February 5, 2021 / PohlmanUSA, which is regionally and nationally known for court reporting and litigation services, has announced the expanded offering of its MyDocFileServe (MDFS) eFiling system into Cook County, Illinois for asbestos cases. The system is already a heavily relied upon tool for the asbestos docket in Madison and St. Clair Counties of Illinois. MDFS is designed to allow remote electronic eFiling and eService of documents simultaneously and s...

By Mark Ellebracht - WBGZ Radio The long-awaited vaccine for COVID-19 is making its way across Illinois, with doses arriving this week in Madison and St. Clair Counties for distribution.  The news comes on a day when Madison County announced 10 more deaths connected to the illness that has claimed more than 300,000 lives nationwide since March. Madison County also reported 200 new positive cases of COVID-19 on Monday. Macoupin County listed 43 new cases and 2 additional deaths and there were just 11 new cases in Jersey County. Dr. Michael Olson from the SIU School of Medicine was part of a s...

>> 911, where is your emergency? >> a woman is found dead in her home. blood is streaked and splattered throughout the premises. >> she's got her head and her neck wedged between the bed and the wall. >> okay. >> her kitchen and her hallway is covered in blood. >> minutes later, dr. daniel spitz, the chief medical examiner for macomb and st. clair counties in michigan, is on his way to the location. >> apparently there's quite a bit of blood at the scene. i'm not sure what kind of wounds we're dealing with, if any, at this point. >> medical investigator patty roland, who works with dr. spitz, ...

also, wow, two more contests within a fortnight. are you kidding? they are heading to florida. it's getting ugly. romney is calling gingrich a failed leader. but why? >> the mayor of the island where the cruise ship capsized is warning of an ecological time bomb. there may have been more passengers than originally thought that weren't on the roster. >> head's up football fans, super bowl sequel, giants and patriots meet again at this year's super bowl. we'll begin this hour with powerful and very dangerous weather sweeping across the southeast this morning. and if you didn't see pi...