Gov. JB Pritzker has signed into law a bill banning Homeland Security agents from arresting people in or near daycare centers, hospitals, colleges or courthouses who are suspected of being in the country illegally.

Had the law been in place sooner, the November arrest of an Elgin man and the April arrest of a Schaumburg man in the McHenry County courthouse parking lot would have been illegal.

And the agents who arrested them could have been sued $10,000, according to House Bill 1312 .

On the morning of Nov. 5, Alex Ordonez, 33, appeared in McHenry County court for an arraignment on felony forgery charges. He was accused of stealing more than $5,000 from a Marengo couple by forging their names on checks drawn on their bank account, according to the criminal complaint.

When Ordon

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