Practicing in the Appellate Courts is for the purpose of reviewing trial court judgments to correct of errors committed by the trial court, development of the law, achieve a uniform approach across courts, and the pursuit of justice, more generally. Appellate courts are not a forum to make a new case, but instead they determine if the rulings and judgment of the court below were made correctly.
Lemont is a relatively affluent village in Cook, DuPage, and Will Counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, and is roughly 27 miles (43km) southwest of Chicago. The population was 13,098 at the 2000 census. A great percentage of the village's residents are predominately White, making it one of the least diverse suburbs of the Chicago metropolitan area.