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The song "Lake Shore Drive" is featured in this Walter E. Smithe furniture commercial.

The head of the Illinois prison system told a legislative subcommittee that he believes millions of dollars paid out in workers' compensation claims to Menard guards who claimed injury from turning keys involved "fraud." Tony Godinez, director of the Illinois Department of Corrections, alleged fraud in response to a question from Rep.

One of my favorite books about Illinois, Oddball Illinois, features a photo of a former landmark in the Chicago suburb of Berwyn.

A strategy of presenting old arguments to new arbitrators has resulted in a rarity at workers' compensation hearing sites in Southern Illinois -- a string of denials for repetitive trauma claims filed by guards and other employees of the Menard Correctional Center.