This handbook is your guide through the federal, state, and local laws developed by courts, legislatures, and agencies that comprise municipal law. It covers the forms in which municipal governments may be organized; the election of municipal officials; the qualifications, duties, responsibilities, and compensation of elected and appointed officials; the police and regulatory powers possessed by municipalities; municipal personnel practices; the organization, operation, and supervision of police and fire departments; the Open Meetings Act, the Freedom of Information Act, and other considerations involved in meetings of the corporate authorities; the enactment, interpretation, and enforcement of ordinances; the adjudication of ordinance violations; and the prosecution of traffic and DUI cases by local governments.
Stewart H. Diamond, Ancel Glink, P.C., Chicago, General Editor
Chapter 1 — Organization, Governmental Forms, and Dissolution
John J. Zimmermann, Attorney at Law, and Andrew S. Paine, Tressler LLP, Chicago
Chapter 2 — Elections
Keri-Lyn J. Krafthefer, Ancel Glink, P.C., Naperville,and Adam W. Lasker, Lasker Law LLC , Chicago
Chapter 3 — Public Meetings
Stewart H. Diamond and Mark R. Heinle, Ancel Glink, P.C., Chicago
Chapter 4 — Officers and Employees
James D. Rock and Erin M. Monforti, Ancel Glink, P.C., Chicago
Chapter 5 — Municipal Personnel Practices
Ronald J. Kramer, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Chicago, and James J. Powers IV and Kelly A. Coyle, Clark Baird Smith LLP, Rosemont
Chapter 6 — Police Departments and Fire Departments
Margaret Kostopulos, Ancel Glink, P.C., Chicago
Chapter 7 — Police Power
Bernard Z. Paul, Law Offices of Bernard Z. Paul, DeKalb
Chapter 8 — Ordinances
Enza Petrarca, Village of Downers Grove, Downers Grove
Chapter 9 — Adjudication of Ordinance Violations
Matthew W. Beaudet, Chicago Department of Buildings, Chicago
Chapter 10 — The Prosecution of Traffic and DUI Cases by Local Governments
Carmen P. Forte, Jr., and Daniel W. Bourgault, Klein, Thorpe and Jenkins, Ltd., Chicago
