Ellis Levin: A lifetime of protecting human rights!(Read the latest interview with Ellis)

Thank you for visiting my website. I am running for Cook County Circuit Judge in the 8th Subcircuit (Cole vacancy), which covers the lakefront from the Edgewater to the northern edge of Bridgeport.

I have a long record of protecting human rights. As a former eight-term State Representative I sponsored landmark legislation that protected basic rights for the LGBTQ community, for women, and for ethnic and religious minorities.
(Read a message about my LGBTQ record).

Some of the most important laws I passed include:

• The Illinois Hate Crimes Act which made it a felony to attack someone over their perceived ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation.
  
  
• A law that gives religious minorities – such as the Jewish community - the right to observe their high religious holidays by allowing them to reschedule work, court, and classroom obligations that conflict with these holidays.
  
  
• The Order of Protection Act which strengthened Orders of Protection by allowing women to get Orders against their husbands and by increasing the penalties for violating a court order.
  
  
• The Missing Child Act which allows law enforcement to begin investigating a missing child case immediately without waiting 72 hours.
  
  
• A law exempting Social Security payments from Illinois state income tax.
  
  
• The law the created the Citizen’s Utility Board, an organization that has saved Illinois residents over 10 billion dollars.

I will bring this commitment to fairness and basic human rights to the courtroom with your support in the Democratic Primary on March 20th.

Thank you for your consideration.  Punch #191

Sincerely, Ellis Levin