Attorney General Lisa Madigan today applauded state lawmakers for supporting the Debtors’ Rights Act of 2012, a measure that would protect poor people from being jailed over unpaid debts.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is taking on three now-closed World Gyms in Chicago's suburbs.
Madigan's office has filed a lawsuit that alleges the gyms charged customers at least $100,000 in membership fees after the fitness centers had closed.
Illinois’ Attorney General Lisa Madigan is suing the current and past owners of the Wood River Refinery in Roxana claiming they're responsible for polluted groundwater around the sprawling plant.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has been appointed to a new federal committee that will advise the U.S. transportation secretary on measures to protect the rights of air travelers.
Read MoreThe Illinois High School Association girls state track and field meet will be held this weekend in Charleston, Ill., — and Fenwick’s Mary Kate Callahan won’t be taking part.
But a lawsuit to be filed Wednesday by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan in federal court aims to make it possible for student-athletes with disabilities, like Callahan who is paralyzed from the waist down, to compete in future IHSA state meets.
More than $30,200 in illegal synthetic drugs were confiscated Monday from retailers as part of Operation Smoked Out, Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced Tuesday.
Read MoreInvestigators from the Galesburg Police Department and Illinois Attorney General’s office found 324 packages, totaling $9,600, at Main Street Tobacco and Games, 914 E. Main St. The illegal synthetic drugs included bath salts, which testified positive for methamphetamine.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says the $20 million the state received from a national foreclosure settlement will be used to help homeowners and renters affected by the foreclosure crisis.
Read MoreAttorney General Lisa Madigan has announced the arrest of a Morgan County man after a search of his residence during a joint police operation discovered two laptop computers allegedly containing child pornography.
Read MoreThe Justice Department and 16 states, including Illinois, have sued Apple Inc. and major book publishers, alleging a conspiracy to raise the price of electronic books that Attorney General Eric Holder says cost consumers millions of dollars.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan will make a joint announcement Wednesday with officials of AMC Theatres that the chain is installing captioning and audio-description technology in all of its theaters in Illinois to help movie-watchers with hearing and vision disabilities.
Read MoreAttorney General Lisa Madigan today commended Senate lawmakers for unanimously passing a bill to better protect consumers from the exceedingly high costs of tax refund anticipation loans and refund anticipation checks.
Read MoreInvestigators from the Illinois State's Attorney's Office and local law enforcement smoked out a synthetic drug manufacturer in central Illinois, seizing a cache of drugs worth nearly $100,000. Watch the VIDEO HERE.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D) called on the Federal Housing Finance Agency March 23 to immediately implement appropriate principal reductions to home loans held by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan testified today on the increasingly high level of debt students are undertaking to obtain a degree in the for-profit schools industry in a hearing before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts.
Read MoreThe Illinois attorney general’s office today sued Mo’ Money Taxes, a troubled tax-preparation service and lender based in Memphis, Tenn., which has recently run into a buzzsaw of legal trouble and negative publicity in several states.
Read MoreAttorney General Lisa Madigan today announced that her office collected more than $900 million on behalf of the State of Illinois in 2011, bringing total collections since 2003 to more than $7.9 billion. Through a combination of litigation and collection efforts, Madigan’s office generated almost $30 for every tax dollar spent.
Read MoreAttorney General Lisa Madigan today joined with the Federal Trade Commission, Chicago Better Business Bureau and consumer advocates to warn Illinoisans about a scam known as phone bill ‘cramming’ that has hit hundreds of thousands of consumers and businesses with bogus charges on their phone bills.
Read MoreA multi-agency operation headed by Attorney General Lisa Madigan's office resulted in hundreds of packages of synthetic marijuana being relinquished by Peoria stores Wednesday morning.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says homeowners who believe they're entitled to reimbursements from a multi-state settlement with large mortgage lenders or who have questions can contact a help line set up by the office.
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