Government & Legal
This website empowers Illinois’ booming Hispanic population with free self-help legal resources. Hispanics in Illinois unable to afford an attorney now have an online Spanish-language resource to help them resolve their legal problems 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
This site provides learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers. These resources will teach our kids how our government works. Ben’s Guide provides additional links to U.S. Government websites developed for kids.
These publications include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. The Background Notes are updated/revised by the Office of Electronic Information and Publications of the Bureau of Public Affairs as they are received from the State Department’s regional bureaus.
The core mission of Keeping America Informed dated to 1813 when Congress determined to make information regarding the work of the three branches of Government available to all Americans. The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) provides publishing and dissemination services for the official and authentic government publications to Congress, Federal agencies, Federal depository libraries, and the American public.
The FTC’s mission is to prevent business practices that are anticompetitive or deceptive or unfair to consumers; to enhance informed consumer choice and public understanding of the competitive process; and to accomplish this without unduly burdening legitimate business activity. This site contains information on identity theft, free annual credit reports, etc.
HOPE provides professional and confidential consulting, training, and compliance services to rental housing providers, real estate companies, mortgage lenders, homeowners’ insurance companies, municipalities and governmental agencies.
Through the I-Cash program, the Illinois State Treasurer’s Unclaimed Property Division connects state residents with their unclaimed property.
The Attorney General is the state’s chief legal officer and is responsible for protecting the public interest of the state and its people. The Attorney General provides services that cover a broad range of issues, reaching every corner of Illinois. This site contains hotline numbers for consumer fraud and identity theft.
Illinois Department of Revenue
Official website for the state of Illinois
McLean County Legal Information
Search Illinois public records statewide for vital information such as death, birth and marriage certificates with official government websites. Get property information, conduct a business search, verify professional licenses and many other public records available online.
This booklet contains information you must know to pass the written test on traffic laws and signs in order to obtain basic driving privileges.
Illinois State Archives online databases
U. S. government’s official web portal for kids
Prairie State Legal Services offers free legal services for low income persons and those over 60 who have serious civil legal problems and need legal help to solve them.
