She wants to be re-elected. Her reasons are simple: She loves her job and she thinks she’s been effective. We agree and endorse her for another term as attorney general.
Read MoreAn aggressive champion of consumer rights, she has made Illinoisans safer and has put dollars back into the pockets of some who were taken. She has battled such things as identity theft and nursing home and mortgage lending abuses. She’s returned nearly $10 billion owed to the state or defrauded from it since her tenure began. She also dramatically improved government transparency in a state desperately in need of sunshine via tougher open records and meetings laws and creation of the Illinois public access counselor’s office. In many ways, she says, the office is victim of its own success, as private citizens, government officials and media flood it with requests for help.
Read MoreMadigan is smart, competent and sticks to her duties. We’ve heard from too many candidates various plans that infringe upon or duplicate the duties of other statewide officials.
We appreciate her efforts to recoup money for the state of Illinois through various settlements on behalf of homeowners, communities and the pension systems.
Read MoreMadigan’s consumer protection efforts have been exceptional, her office has paid for itself and then some on behalf of some of the states’ most vulnerable, she’s been an unwavering defender of government transparency through the state’s Freedom of Information Act. It’s a close call for us, but Lisa Madigan is endorsed.
Read MoreLisa Madigan has been a champion of consumers and open government, however. She’s taken on ComEd, cellphone companies, for-profit colleges and mortgage lenders all on behalf of consumers.
Read MoreLISA MADIGAN is completing her third term as Illinois attorney general and has compiled a lengthy list of accomplishments. If experience and results are the true measure by which voters judge an officeholder, then Madigan is the clear choice for re-election.
Read MoreIn Illinois, the traditional focus of the office has been consumer protection -- much of it with landmark impact -- and we're impressed by the success Democratic incumbent Lisa Madigan has had in carrying on that tradition.
Read MoreThe Illinois attorney general, Lisa Madigan, whom Ms. King buttonholed at a luncheon this summer and who’d been hearing similar complaints from other constituents, agrees. Her office has begun drafting legislation that would allow residents and their families to put cameras in their rooms in the state’s 1,200-plus nursing homes. The families would own and install the cameras; facility administrators would not have access to them.
Read MoreA number of state attorneys general, led by Lisa Madigan of Illinois and George Jepsen of Connecticut, have opened investigations into the JPMorgan breach, according to the people briefed on the matter. The inquiries are looking at whether the bank, the nation’s largest, alerted customers in a timely matter. A prolonged delay between when the bank learned that vast stores of information were pilfered and when it alerted customers could put consumers at risk, the people said.
Read More“Identity theft is a serious threat to consumers," Madigan said. "It’s critical to start incorporating extra precautions in your daily routine to limit the damage done as a result of a data breach.
Read MoreAttorney General Lisa Madigan has proposed that the state by law allow cameras in nursing home rooms to better monitor patient care. The cameras would be installed on a voluntary basis; patients or their families would bear the costs of setting up the equipment and maintaining it. "The work that I have done ... as attorney general has unfortunately proven that too often when our loved ones are in a nursing home, they are not always safe and they are not always well cared for," Madigan said.
Read More“We are pleased to reach an agreement with the Attorney General and other parties and to resolve this matter in the best interest of our customers,” ComEd Senior Vice President Thomas O'Neill said in a statement.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan on Monday said she will fight for new legislation that would let nursing home residents and their families have video or audio recording devices in their rooms to monitor patient treatment.
Read MoreIllinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says teenagers respond to the influence of their peers.
“I think that it is absolutely critical that it is teens talking to each other. If it is not cool to another kid for you to be smoking you are not going to start smoking in all likelihood,” Madigan said.
Read More"This settlement resolves the fourth enforcement action I have brought against Bank of America to fight the widespread fraud that was at the root cause of the economic crisis," Madigan said. "Bank of America, and in particular Countrywide, were major players in virtually every aspect of the market that caused the crisis, from shoddy loan originations and discriminatory lending to African Americans and Latinos to fraudulent marketing of mortgage-backed securities."
Read More"When we looked, we learned that the fees in these payroll cards were both excessive as well as unfair," Madigan said.
Madigan said it was an "uphill battle" to get the bill passed through the General Assembly. But with the new law, she said, "People won't have to pay to get their pay."
Read More“Everyday parents send their children — many of whom have known food allergies and many who have unknown food allergies — to school and out into the world,” Madigan said. “That gives you a sense of how important it is to have epinephrine in schools.”
Read More“Child pornography is not a victim-less crime,” Attorney General Lisa Madigan said. “Every file posted online depicts a child, sometimes just months old, being sexually abused. This crime destroys the lives of these innocent victims and is only further perpetuated when it spreads online.”
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