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The paper trail behind Illinois law: 163,006 bills and resolutions indexed, Public Acts linked to the statutes they changed, and nearly half a million legal citations and quotes examined across real court filings — surfacing more than 200 citations that cannot exist under Illinois’s own rules.
Investigation · July 25, 2026
163,006 bills and resolutions, 2.1 million official actions, and 88,962 version-level links from Public Acts into the compiled statutes (as of July 24, 2026) — rebuilt from official ILGA sources, with a receipt at every hop we publish.
Investigation · July 25, 2026
492,581 legal citations and quotes examined across 14,997 real Illinois court filings — every result with a receipt. Plus: 221 citations found across 169 appellate records that cannot exist under Illinois’s own citation rule — one in the court’s own PDF header.