March 2008 Photos

Lizveth Mendez, Community Outreach Liaison for Attorney General Lisa Madigan, listens to a question from a parent during a presentation in Spanish at Lázaro Cárdenas el ementary school in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood. Mendez provided tips and resources for parents when shopping for a mortgage and how to avoid falling prey to predatory lenders.

Assistant Attorney General Margaret Thomas, Assistant Chief of Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s Veterans’ Rights Bureau, talks to attorneys and mediators during a training session sponsored by the Chicago Chapter of the Labor & Employment Relations Association at John Marshall Law School in Chicago. Thomas talked about employees’ and employers’ rights and responsibilities under the Illinois Service Member's Employment Tenure Act. For more information about Madigan’s Veteran’s Rights Bureau, click here.

Eric Salcedo, Community Outreach Coordinator for Attorney General Lisa Madigan, delivers a presentation to retired state employees during a Myths and Realities of Retirement Workshop sponsored by the Illinois State Retirement System in Chicago. Salcedo offered the retirees tips on how to protect themselves from scam artists and identity thieves.

Attorney General Lisa Madigan joins the Reverend Jesse Jackson, left, and the Reverend Steve Jones during a news conference at King College Prep High School in Chicago to discuss her office’s subpoenas to Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., and Wells Fargo Financial Illinois, Inc. Madigan’s office seeks to determine whether mortgage lenders unfairly steered African American and Latino borrowers into higher cost or otherwise inappropriate home loans in violation of fair lending and civil rights laws. For more information, click here.

Attorney General Lisa Madigan speaks to delegates at the Illinois Education Association’s (IEA) Annual Convention in Rosemont. This was the association’s 154th Representative Assembly with the theme, “Organize, Empower, Elect.” Later, Madigan joined, from left; Jo Anderson, IEA executive director; Bob Blade, IEA vice president; Cinda Klickna, IEA secretary/treasurer and Ken Swanson, IEA president.

Attorney General Lisa Madigan prepares children’s toys for lead testing at a “Get the Lead Out” event at the West Cook YMCA in Oak Park. Parents brought up to four painted or plastic toys or children’s jewelry from home to be tested. Tim Gifford, left, an analyst with Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., uses a NITON XL3 Series analyzer to screen the toys and jewelry for lead. The handheld analyzer provides a fast, reliable and nondestructive means of testing for the presence of restricted substances. During the event, approximately 100 old and new toys were brought in to be tested. Of that total, 13 toys were identified as having high lead levels, including eight that had “very high” lead level results.