Last Wednesday the Illinois Supreme Court ruled on hundreds of petitions for leave to appeal and granted 14, only a handful of which will be of interest to civil litigators, but as always the broader implications of the cases taken and those not taken are important.Chicago’s impoundment practices have reached the Illinois high court after having been considered by the Supreme Court of the United States in Fulton v. City of Chicago in which the nation’s high court held that “the mere retention of estate property after the …