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		<title>Legal wrinkle creates debate over &#8216;debtors&#8217; prisons&#8217; in Illinois</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senior Attorney Sandi Gordon of our Southern Regional Office is quoted extensively in this article.  This piece does a very good job of explaining the process that leads to the arrest of debtors. By DOUG FINKE (doug.finke@sj-r.com) The State Journal-Register, Jan 21, 2012 Robin Ebersohl left her job at a Wal-Mart in Montgomery County to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lollaf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10120425&amp;post=318&amp;subd=lollaf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MADISON COUNTY RESIDENTIAL FORECLOSURE MEDIATION PROGRAM WORKING</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COUNTY: FORECLOSURE PROGRAM WORKING By SANFORD J. SCHMIDT January 19, 2012,The Telegraph &#8211; EDWARDSVILLE About 80 percent of those asking to participate in a new Madison County foreclosure mediation program have been accepted, and 19 of them have kept their homes or renegotiated financing, court officials say. People who want to take advantage of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lollaf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10120425&amp;post=316&amp;subd=lollaf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Debtors Prison: It&#8217;s Back and It&#8217;s Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JIM GALLAGHER • St. Louis Post-Distpatch &#124; Posted: Sunday, January 15, 2012 Robin Ebersohl knew she had a loud muffler. She couldn&#8217;t afford to get it fixed. When she saw a police car, she thought she&#8217;d chance it and drive by. It was a mistake bigger than she could have imagined. She thought she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lollaf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10120425&amp;post=313&amp;subd=lollaf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Debtors Share Frightening Tales in Marion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article describes the second hearing held by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation in Marion on Wednesday.   Senior Staff Attorney Sandi Gordon from our Southern Regional Office spoke at the hearing and is quoted in the article. DEBTORS SHARE FRIGHTENING TALES BY STEPHEN RICKERL, The Southern Thursday, January 12, 2012 MARION &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lollaf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10120425&amp;post=310&amp;subd=lollaf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Panel Hears Concerns About Debt Collections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is an article from the Telegraph covering yesterday&#8217;s hearing in Alton about debt collections.  Staff Attorney Beverly Yang from our Western Regional Office was a member of the panel.  Another public hearing will be held in Marion on Wednesday, January 11, 2012.  Senior Attorney Sandi Gordon from our Southern Regional Office will be a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lollaf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10120425&amp;post=308&amp;subd=lollaf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Public Hearings to Address Debtor Arrests to be Held in Alton and Marion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation is holding two public hearings in southern Illinois on the issue of debtor arrests.  Land of Lincoln attorneys will serve on the panels.  The first will be held in Alton on Monday, January 9.  The second will be held in Marion on Wednesday, January 11. Hearing to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lollaf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10120425&amp;post=305&amp;subd=lollaf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation, Inc. and University of Illinois Extension to hold small farm risk management webinars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Laura Roberts, December 20, 2011 &#8211; Rockford Register Star BELVIDERE —University of Illinois Extension is slated to hold a series of small farm risk management webinars, starting in January. The webinars aim to give an overview of methods for evaluating, managing and reducing risk in relation to small farming operations. Farmers will learn how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lollaf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10120425&amp;post=302&amp;subd=lollaf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unpaid Bills Land Some Debtors Behind Bars</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story below ran on Morning Edition today on National Public Radio (NPR).  Staff Attorney Beverly Yang of our Alton office is interviewed in the story. Unpaid Bills Land Some Debtors Behind Bars December 12, 2011 from WBEZ &#8211; By Susie An Although debtors&#8217; prisons are illegal across the country, it&#8217;s becoming increasingly common for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lollaf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10120425&amp;post=298&amp;subd=lollaf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Homeowners Taking Advantage of Madison County&#8217;s Foreclosure Mediation Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published in The Telegraph &#8211; December 04, 2011 By SANFORD J. SCHMIDT EDWARDSVILLE &#8211; As of the end of October, 52 people had been referred to a new Madison County Residential Mortgage Program since its inception in April, said Linda Jun, program administrator of Land of Lincoln Legal Services. An estimated 20 more have joined [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lollaf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10120425&amp;post=295&amp;subd=lollaf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Illinois Attorney General fighting to limit use of arrest warrants by debt collectors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The article below ran in today&#8217;s Washington Street Journal and Chicago Tribune.  The practice of debt collectors using arrest warrants to collect on judgments for credit card, auto loan, and other debts is all too common in Illinois.  Beverly Yang of the Western Regional Office in Alton and John Roska of the Eastern Regional Office [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lollaf.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10120425&amp;post=287&amp;subd=lollaf&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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