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Reply Contested cases, or those in which litigants are on opposite sides of issues such as asset distribution, child support, or a variety of other issues common in family law, are rarely taken as pro-bono cases or by low-cost agencies. (Shutterstock) Maria Nanos sees firsthand what happens when families can't afford legal services or navigate the bureaucracy of the court system. As chief executive officer of Greenlight Family Services, their work centers on helping families resolve legal concerns around adoption and guardianship, and ninety-five percent of their clients are low-income. One ...

The United Center will switch to the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine beginning next week, Chicago officials said Sunday. Starting April 20, those with walk-in appointments will receive the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which the Chicago Department of Public Health has reported to be in “high demand from residents.” Illinois public health officials Sunday reported 2,942 new confirmed and ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A group of Latinx moms and their school aged kids gathered Tuesday in San Francisco's Parque Ninos Unidos in the Mission District to fight for public schools to reopen. "I want to go back to school because I can't be home anymore. I fight too much with my little brothers and I can't concentrate at home," said fifth-grader Iris Martinez. She and the other students sat on the lawn with computers in their laps and participated in distance learning in the park. "My house is too small. We don't have our own desks. Right now, I am in my mom's bedroom, we share bedrooms. My mo...

Veteran 8th Ward Ald. Michelle Harris is moving closer to securing the votes needed to replace former House Speaker Michael Madigan as Illinois Democratic chairman.

SPRINGFIELD — Michael Madigan may be gone from the Democratic-controlled Illinois General Assembly, but his influence on the political process in Springfield persists. And the connection between Madigan, a Chicago Democrat and speaker of the Illinois House for 36 of the past 38 years before Emanuel "Chris" Welch of Hillside took charge of the speaker's gavel last month, could create political problems for Welch, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Senate president, a political observer and campaign-finance expert says. Madigan's status as chairman of the Democratic Party of Illinois and ...