Illinois Supreme Court Affirms School District Must Pay for Emergency Construction

Public construction projects in Illinois can be fraught with legal loopholes and “gotchas” that can take hard earned money out of the pockets of construction workers. Back in December, we wrote about the cautionary tale of Proviso East High School. In that case, the school district attempted to avoid making any payments over and above insurance proceeds for $7.3 million of emergency construction work that was performed to repair a high school following a fire loss.