Below is a summary of activities of this section from July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025. While past activity is no guarantee of future activity, it may give a idea of what to expect this year.
Section Stats
Newsletters
Issues: 4
CLE
Live Programs: 3
Discussions
Posts: 11
Legislation
Bills Reviewed: 312
Continuing Legal Education
Section members receive discounts on section-sponsored CLE programs. During the 2024–25 bar year, the Section sponsored the following programs:
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Sponsor LIVE WEB - Understanding the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (06/11/2025)
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Sponsor LIVE WEB - Problem Properties and Effective Solutions (06/13/2025)
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Sponsor LIVE WEB - It's Just a Plant, Man: Regulating Cannabis, Intoxicating Hemp, and CBD (06/17/2025)
ISBA Central Discussions
ISBA Central communities allows section members to pose questions, answer questions, and share information with fellow section members. Members of the section get free access to the section’s community. Joining any section also grants you access to the Transactional and Litigation communities. Below are the total number of discussion posts during the 2024–25 bar year.
Local Government Law
- Community members: 597
- Total discussion posts: 11
Transactional
- Community members: 24,715
- Total discussion posts: 406
Litigation
- Community members: 24,710
- Total discussion posts: 1,251
Legislation
The Section Council reviewed 312 bills that may affect their members’ practice area. Highlights of the most recent legislative session include:
- House Bill 1842 amends the Administrative Adjudications Division of the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that an ordinance established under the Division to establish a system of administrative adjudication shall allow hearing officers presiding over adjudicatory hearings to enter orders prohibiting further code violations or compelling the remediation of existing code violations within a specified time and authorizing the municipality to take all necessary steps to remediate code violations.
- House Bill 3144 amends the Judicial Privacy Act to add administrative law judges to the definition of judicial officer in the Judicial Privacy Act.
- Senate Bill 1523 amends the Counties Code. Requires every recorder to establish a fraud referral and review process to review deeds and instruments and requires every county to establish and maintain a property fraud alert system. Provides a private right of action to a rightful property owner affected by a person knowingly filing or causing to be filed a deed or instrument that is recorded in the grantor's index or the grantee's index that is fraudulent, unlawfully altered, or intended to unlawfully cloud or transfer the title of any real property.