CHICAGO, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Same-sex couples in the Chicago area don't have to wait to marry until the state's gay marriage law takes effect in June, an Illinois federal judge said Friday.
In a decision that appears to apply only to Cook County, U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman ruled there was no reason for a delay "when no opposition has been presented to the court," the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Advertisement
She said "committed gay and lesbian couples have already suffered from the denial of their fundamental right to marry."
Coleman ruled in December same-sex couples didn't have to observe the June date if one or both of them had a life-threatening illness.
