If a rushed provision contained within the Illinois General Assembly’s revenue bill actually comes to implementation, Illinoisans might find themselves paying at the pump with their credit card and ...

Unless a recently filed legal challenge succeeds, this time next year, the Interchange Fee Prohibition Act will be in effect in Illinois and change the payment processing system as we know it. The law ...

On October 2, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in support of several banking associations’ ...

The prohibition question became involved again in its continual melee by an unexpected turn of events. The Church Temperance Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, an organization of many years’ ...

Back in January of 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. Authored by U.S. Sen. Morris Sheppard of Texarkana, the amendment banned the manufacture, sale or ...