Is it illegal to write on a sidewalk with chalk in Chicago?
Is it illegal to write on a sidewalk with chalk in Chicago?
My understanding is that sidewalks are public. Chalk is non-permanent. If one is obeying the rules of decency and not drawing or promoting anything slanderous, libelous or profane, and staying out of the way of pedestrians, is this activity illegal and why? (The cop who insisted I stop couldn’t tell me. I just stopped because he was a Chicago Cop telling me what to do – but as far as I know, I was not breaking any laws.)
How Can I Make Custodial Parent Sign an Agreement?
I am a noncustodial parent who is trying to convince the custodial parent to file an agreement in the amount that we both agreed upon when our children were first born. I am now currently seeking legal help to make voluntary payments to support my children as well as safeguarding my future spouse’s assets. I would love to know what to do.
Can someone please help?
Where Can I Find Affordable Legal Help?
I’ve got a situation where I need to find an attorney, but I am pretty low on funds right now. I know that attorneys can vary widely in their fees, and I’m sure there are some programs out there for people who don’t have tons of money lying around to pay an attorney. I don’t want something for nothing, but there has got to be some ways that a person can find affordable legal help without selling their first born child to get it.
Where can I find some ways for affordable legal help?
What are the Long and Short Term Effects of Declaring Bankruptcy?
I have a family member that is currently in the process of declaring bankruptcy. I was wondering what kind of long (and short) term effects there will be for them.
Will it affect them for the rest of their lives, or is it just a temporary situation?
Can a Bank Be Sued for Privacy Act Violation?
I moved from an apartment to a townhouse recently and I went to the bank three times to switch my address. I’m not the primary account holder, I’m the second person on the account. The bank still to this day has not have the correct address in the system, so basically the primary account holder and I have different addresses on one account.
On Aug. 16 of this year I went to check my balance on my checking account, the ATM rejected it 3 times saying that the PIN was incorrect. On the way home I stopped at my bank to check the ATM again, and it took my card. I went inside to retrieve my card and I was told” your numbers are not offset, but your going to have demagnetize and re-enter a new pin number”.
So after filling out the same sheet I filled out 3 times before, the teller then asked me for my address, (She is supposed to have my driver’s license in her hands with the correct address) so I told her my address. She then asked me if I still lived at my previous address, I said “no! I’m at my current address.”
So apparantly all of my correspondence, including my new ATM card, was sent to the old address. When I finally receive my ATM card it was open. The sticker with the 800 number was still on the card, but, who knows, with technology today anyone can be slipping 20 to 30 dollars out of our account. Now I can use my card unless I demagnetize the card and get new pin numbers even though I’ve had the same pin number for over 2 years.
Is this any kind of violation? Can I sue a bank for violation of the privacy act?
Son Skips on Bail 20 Years Ago: Can He Return Home?
My son was jailed some 20 years ago for theft.
While on bail, he left town.
Now he wants to return.
What is the best way for him to handle this?
Who is the Best Attorney for Reinstating a Revoked License?
Who is the best attorney to reinstate a revoked license?
Can a Chicago Public School Security Guard Do This?
Does a Chicago Public Schools Security Guard have the right to photograph me and my child without our permission?
This is in regard to an ongoing dispute between me and the security guard at Solomon Elem about where I can drop off my son (who is disabled, but not in a wheelchair, so the security guard does not think that his disability exists.) The problem is the rules change every month and they have no designated parent drop off area. They think the buses “have” to be able to drive where ever they want, even AFTER they have unloaded. But there are only a few buses. It is absurd. It has escalated to the point now that the security guard goes out into the street and hits parents’ vehicles and screams at us that we are creating “obstructions” that only exist in his mind. He scares us and our kids. He says we are “breaking the law,” but we are not considered to be PARKING if we don’t leave the vehicle. That is called STANDING. We want to be able to stop momentarily so we can see our kids walk into the building.
Then we move along. If you could see this you would not believe it. The neighborhood is completely quiet and peaceful. Without this insane person screaming in the middle of the street and hitting peoples’ cars, everything would be fine. There are numerous solutions that we have suggested to this problem–such as have the buses remain on one side of the building and the parents drop off on the other side– but nothing ever changes.
This has been going on almost 4 years. The principal comes out and says what we are doing is fine with her but the next day we have to deal with the crazy security guard going ballistic on us. I have become the special target of his nastiness because I am outspoken on behalf of my son because he is disabled and needs to be (a) dropped off close to the building and (b) supervised because he may wander off. So, the security guard has taken photographs of me and my child, to “prove that I am breaking the law.” But as I said I have not left the vehicle and the sign says “no parking.” It doesn’t say “no standing.”
Now, the latest is he called the 17th district police to try and get them to arrest me. I don’t think they can arrest someone on a parking charge, can they? (The police didn’t arrest me, and they also realized that I was standing, not parking, but they did not realize the entire history of the insanity. So they did nothing and left.) We complained yet again to the principal and the CPS admin and since nothing happened, this emboldened the security guard, and he has reiterated his “constitutional right” to photograph me and my son any time he wants to.
I don’t think he has this right because he is a CPS employee. Is this correct?
Can I Sue a Chicago School Principal for Firing Me?
Can I sue the Chicago public schools (Principal) for wrongly firing me? It is over the fact that I came to work late/absent 15 times. I have been with CPS for over three years and after I transferred to this school this principal became very disrespectful towards me for no reason at all. Trying to suspend me and I just been there for just 4 months.
