It is never too late to correct our mistakes. And if we do not, we risk repeating them.
Your mortgage shouldn't have been treated as a wager - it should be a way to provide a home and financial stability for you and your family.
Consumers don't need to be forced to pay billions for so-called smart technology to know how to reduce their utility bills. We know to turn down the heat or air conditioning and shut off the lights.
Hard work, careful planning, and realistic financial advice will be required by many to regain solvency.
Most of our children have access to Internet-accessible technology, yet most of us are actually not paying much attention to what they're doing online.
The Attorney General must identify threats to Illinoisans' financial security and take action to protect people.
It probably can take me anywhere I want to be, but I have to be honest, being attorney general is a great job.
Stalking is a crime that can paralyze an otherwise productive person with fear.
Stalking is a serious crime with serious consequences.
I've repeatedly seen unscrupulous lenders use every con in the book to charm and lie to homeowners. Lenders actually paid brokers a premium to put people in higher-priced loans with toxic features, such as adjustable rates and prepayment penalties.
In 2011, when the General Assembly passed the law allowing civil unions, Illinois took an important step forward to recognize that gay and lesbian couples have the right to build lives together and create strong, loving families.
A ban on same-sex marriage violates the state Constitution's equal protection clause.
The party on Wall Street never ends - while the rest of us pick up their tab and suffer the hangover.
Persons whose wagers depend upon how particular selected athletes perform in actual sporting events stand in no different stead than persons who wager on the outcome of any sporting event in which they are not participants.
I am inspired by Nelson Mandela. I was a volunteer teacher in South Africa during apartheid, where I witnessed his success liberating black South Africans.
If home ownership is the American dream, then foreclosure certainly is the American nightmare. It destroys more than credit. It destroys lives. And its effects are felt beyond the individual family that it devastates. It shakes our entire economy.
I went to law school to help people.
Demand to know the school's accreditation. Regional accreditation is preferable to national, particularly if you want to transfer credits. Check with the certifying association or potential employer in your field to ensure successful completion of the program will actually qualify you for that job.
Investigating some of the largest subprime lenders - Wells Fargo, Countrywide, Ameriquest, Household Finance - I've seen how their terrible, toxic loans were closed by any means necessary and eventually packaged, sold as securities, and bet upon until they exploded and decimated our economy.
In every community in Illinois, same-sex couples have chosen to join together and, in many instances, to raise families of their own. These couples are our relatives and friends, our neighbors, co-workers and parents of our children's classmates. They deserve the same rights and responsibilities that civil marriage offers straight couples.
