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COOK COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT AND OTHER ILLINOIS PUBLIC ENTITIES INCLUDING ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL LISA MADIGAN FAIL TO APPEAR AND RESPOND TO DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT BROUGHT UNDER THE AMERICANS’ WITH DISABILITIES ACT

CHICAGO ILLINOIS – October 27, 2014

Illinois Attorney General, Lisa Madigan and other public entities failed to appear and answer in a discrimination lawsuit under the Americans With Disabilities Act.  Chicago residents Gloria Jean Sykes and her disabled mother Mary have filed a disability discrimination lawsuit against the Cook County Circuit Court; the Cook County Circuit Court Chief Judge Timothy Evans; the Cook County Circuit Court, Probate Division; Probate Judge Aicha MacCarthy; the Office of the Illinois Attorney General, Lisa Madigan; the State of Illinois, Governor Pat Quinn; and, Carolyn Toerpe of Naperville, Illinois.  Filed on September 25, 2014 in the U.S. District Court under Title II of the Americans’ With Disabilities Act, the defendants were…