It's been said. . .

"The Illinois Supreme Court's voluntary decision to adopt the ABA's accreditation rules does not transform the ABA's rules into state rules, nor does it transform the ABA into a state actor."

U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo, N. Dist. of Illinois, in an opinion dismissing a civil rights lawsuit by a man whose law school credits are invalid under the ABA Standards for the Approval of Law Schools (Yaodi Hu v. American Bar Association, et al.)

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"Some communities are truly seeing what is contained in the Supreme Court decision (District of Columbia v. Heller) and they're reacting appropriately. Others want to spend taxpayer money on some Don Quixote-type quest."

Todd Vandermyde, a lobbyist in Illinois for the National Rifle Association, after repeal of a gun -possession ban by the village board of Morton Grove, IL, which in 1981 became the first municipality in the country to enact such a ban

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"You should have stayed in Pittsfield."

Federal judge James B. Zagel, N. Dist. of Illinois, brushing aside supportive letters from Pittsfield neighbors of former Illinois prisons director Donald Snyder, when he sentenced him to two years in prisonfor taking $50,000 in payoffs from lobbyists