ODEN v. CAHILL

No. 78-2059.

79 Ill. App.3d 768 (1979)

398 N.E.2d 1061

LINDA ODEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WILLIAM E. CAHILL, Indiv. and as President of the Chicago Civil Service Commission, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (3rd Division).

Opinion filed December 26, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judge, Drew, Cipolla & Kurnik, Ltd., of Park Ridge (Byron D. Knight, of counsel), for appellant.

William R. Quinlan, Corporation Counsel, of Chicago (Robert Retke and Maureen J. Kelly, Assistant Corporation Counsel, of counsel), for appellees.


Judgment affirmed.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SIMON delivered the opinion of the court:

• 1, 2 When an individual is arrested for the first time in life and no criminal conviction results, the fact of arrest nevertheless remains as a blot on the person's record. An Illinois statute provides a procedure by which arrestees may expunge the official records of their first brush with the law. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 38, par. 206-5.) There is also a provision...

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