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Buffalo Bison’s Lincoln’s Birthday Celebration game 
The game is February 22nd at 4:00 pm. The doors open at 3:00 pm and our reserved suite will be open at that time. The cost per ticket is $68.00 and includes all you can eat and drink (details below). There are only 50 tickets available for the suite and the tickets are available starting today. If someone wants to go, I suggest they get their tickets early because I anticipate all 50 tickets being purchased. To purchase tickets for the suite, they should contact GABE MATHERLY at 309-965-4370. They should tell him that they want to purchase tickets for the McLean County Bar Association suite for the Abe Lincoln’s Birthday Celebration game. The refreshments provided in the suite will be: FOOD: - Pizza - Boneless Wings: Served plain with sauces on the side ( BBQ, Buffalo, Sweet & Sour, Ranch, and Honey Mustard) - Salad Bar - Cookies - Popcorn DRINKS: Domestic beers: Busch Light, Michelob Ultra, Bud Light, Budweiser, and Coors Light Seltzer: High Noon (hard seltzer made with vodka) Non-alcoholic drinks: Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Starry, Lemonade, and Aquafina PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICESThanks to Jake Fulk for taking one case!
If you are willing to take the case below, please contact Stacy James at [email protected] Pro bono attorney needed: We have a client needing assistance with a McLean County divorce with children and no property. Support and maintenance were already ordered in F case and client does not know where spouse is but thinks is not in Illinois. court newsFamily Division
As many of you know, we have used the Illinois Supreme Court Order of Protection forms for Stalking No Contact Orders and Civil No Contact Orders in recent years. We would ask that attorneys begin using the forms provided by the Illinois Supreme Court for Stalking No Contact Orders and Civil No Contact Orders that are filed. These forms can be found at: https://www.illinoiscourts.gov/documents-and-forms/civil-no-contact-and-stalking-no-contact-orders/. The law library is making this change as well. Adlai E. Stevenson Memorial Lecture Series Featuring Doris Kearns GoodwinMonday, October 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM until 8:30 PM
The Adlai E. Stevenson Memorial Lecture Series is named after Bloomington native Adlai E. Stevenson II, former Illinois governor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. This event brings innovative and enlightening speakers to Bloomington-Normal campuses to foster community and conversation around the appreciation of learning.
Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin will speak at the Adlai E. Stevenson Memorial Lecture Series, co-hosted by Illinois Wesleyan University and Illinois State University, on Monday, Oct. 6. Goodwin will speak at IWU’s Shirk Center Basketball Arena at 7 p.m., with a presentation titled, Leadership in Turbulent Times; Advice for Today from Our Best Presidents. The moderated program, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by audience Q&A. Goodwin’s career as a historian launched when she was selected as a White House Fellow at age 24, an opportunity that led her to work personally with President Lyndon Johnson both in the White House and later on his memoirs. Her first book, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, became a national bestseller and achieved critical acclaim. Since then, Goodwin has authored numerous... Read More and Register at this LINK. 
MCBA SCHOLARSHIPIf you know of any L2 or L3 law students, please inform them about the 2025 MCBA Community Service Scholarship. The $2,500 scholarship is open to second or third year law students with strong ties to McLean County, Bloomington-Normal, or its surrounding communities. Prime candidates will express and demonstrate a commitment to legal aid work, pro bono activities, or community service. The application deadline is October 31, 2025. Please see the link to the scholarship application below.
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