Admiralty and maritime law involves cases related to navigation and commerce on oceans, rivers, and lakes. Admiralty and maritime cases can involve injuries to longshoremen and vessel crew members, contracts for cargo shipping, vessel collisions, and cruise ship passenger injuries. If your issues involves ships and shipping, business or commerce transacted at sea, finds and salvage, the duties, rights, and liabilities of ship owners, ship masters, and other maritime workers, it is within the realm of admiralty law.
Downers Grove is a village in Downers Grove and Lisle Townships, DuPage County, Illinois, located 19 miles (31 km) west of Chicago. The population was 48,724 at the 2000 United States Census. The United States Census Bureau estimated the population in 2008 to be 49,250.