On Friday, April 8, 2016, Mayor Ronald Denson of the Village of Calumet Park and over 500 of his friends celebrated at Idlewild Country Club. Felicia Frazier, Claudia Castro, Luke Keller and Burt Odelson from Odelson & Sterk, Ltd. attended the event.
Many congratulations to Claudia Castro on becoming the President of the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois. We are very proud of her for this very admirable achievement. We wish her success during her term of office.
Odelson & Sterk is proud to announce that two recent graduates of IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law who recently passed the bar exam will be receiving their initial training here at the firm. A big welcome to Nicole Wilmet and Mike Graham. We hope your experience here with us gives you a good start into…
Claudia Castro, Mary Ryan Norwell and Michael Smith made an appearance in the March 17, 2016, edition of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin in the “In the News” column by Christine M. Pusateri. The three newest members of the firm bring decades of experience and are a welcome addition to our legal team.
Summit As Village attorneys for the Village of Summit, we were responsible for putting the referendum question for home rule on the ballot. After that was accomplished, Mayor Sergio Rodriquez, Clerk Sergio Garcia, and the Board of Trustees worked very hard to educate the voters as to the benefits of home rule. The voters said…
Burt will speak to the attorneys who are members of the Election Law Committee of the Chicago Bar Association as to the procedures necessary for a successful discovery recount. He will also recap recent election law cases. The speech will be given at the Chicago Bar Association located at 321 S. Plymouth Court in Chicago.
On February 17, 2016, Burt Odelson argued before the 8-member bipartisan State Board of Elections who unanimously found that a complaint filed against Kim Foxx was filed with good cause. The Board voted 8-0 to find that Kim Foxx violated the Illinois Election Code at least 3 times by failing to disclose a $25,000 in-kind…
Odelson & Sterk, Ltd. is proud to welcome Michael K. Smith as the newest member of our team. Mike is the retired Deputy Chief of Police for the Cook County Sheriff’s Police Department and former Deputy Chief of the Special Prosecutions Bureau and Supervisor of the Gang Prosecutions Unit of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office. …
Odelson & Sterk, Ltd., Village Attorneys in Chicago Ridge, authored the development agreement announced by Mayor Tokar and the Board of Trustees bringing a $15 million medical facility to the Village. The Village of Chicago Ridge has entered into a development agreement with a doctor’s group from Little Company of Mary and Palos Hospitals to…