COOK COUNTY court authorities expect to encounter a lot of upset people these days after the full ban of cellphones and other electronic devices went into effect last Monday, specifically in the one criminal Between 5,000 and 6,000 people come into the court on a daily basis. One officer said that we encourage people to leave their devices at home or in their cars”. The Chief Judge Timothy Evans said that makes a lot sense to begin the enforcement of the law in the criminal court of 26th and California because the potential for security breaches there is highest.

CITY CLERK Susana Mendoza got her way and Chicago motorists will no longer be forced to face long lines to purchase their city vehicle stickers. The City Council approved Clerk Mendoza’s plan to start selling the stickers on a year round basis in 2014. The transition will follow and exhaustive education campaign to gather vehicle identification numbers from 1.3 million Chicago conductors, after that they will be assigned a new sticker expiration date that’s six months after their state license plates expire.

AFTER TWO decades as President and Executive Officer, Jerry Roper is leaving the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce. He will retired by year-end. Roper, 72 will remain president and CEO until a replacement is hired, and will continue to be active with the business advocacy group and the most important and big chamber of commerce of Illinois.

WITH PRESIDENT Obama set to embark on a trip to Mexico next month, members of the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” taking a constructive trip to the border, and Congress set to release bi-partisan immigration legislation, the unique relationship between the United States and México is front and center in a national conversation around immigration reform. As such 21st Century Border Initiative has put together a timely briefing on the U.S. Mexico bi-national relationship, Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza, Mexican Ambassador to the United States and Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director of the US Immigration Policy Program at The Migration Policy Institute and Edward Alden, Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow at The Council of Foreign Relations.

THE LEADER of the Illinois Republican Party will loose, more sooner than latter, its post over his support for the same-sex marriage. Top state leaders approved a succession strategy that could find Pat Brady replaced within the next weeks.

POPE FRANCIS named task force to advise him on Vatican reform. The Pontiff launched a long-awaited cleanup by announcing the task force made up of eight high ranking cardinals, one of them American to reform the much criticized Vatican administration. The committee is integrated by cardinals Sean O’Malley, of Boston; Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa, of Santiago de Chile; Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Madariaga, of Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Oswald Gracias, of Mumbai, India; Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising, Germany; Laurent Mounsengwo Pasinya of Kinshasa, Congo; Giuseppe Bertelo, president of the Vatican city government and George Pell of Sydney.