For the last several seasons, SGKR Injury Law has been the Home Run Sponsor for the Illinois Valley Pistol Shrimp baseball team. For each home run the Pistol Shrimp hit at their home stadium, Schweickert Field, SGKR Injury Law donates $100.00 to the Illinois Valley Food Pantry. During the 2025 season, the Pistol Shrimp hit 17 home runs at Schweickert Field, so SGKR Injury Law donated $1,700.00 to the Illinois Valley Food Pantry. On October 22, 2025 (photo pictured above), Matt Rundio of SGKR Injury Law presented MJ Credi, the executive director of the Illinois Valley Food Pantry, the $1,700.00 check with June Keeley, general manager of the Pistol Shrimp present for the presentation.    

The Illinois Valley Food Pantry recently moved to a new location in Peru, Illinois (pictured below), that will allow it to better serve our community. The Illinois Valley Food Pantry has been serving our community for more than 43 years and has been a vital resource for individuals and families in need. Illinois Valley Food Pantry serves thousands of people each year and offers food support in a respectful and compassionate way. The Illinois Valley Food Pantry relies on food and money donations that allow it to serve so many people in our community. We are proud to help them every season.

Erica Burgess, the Reading Interventionist for sixth – eighth^–grade students at Lincoln Jr. High School in La Salle, IL, is this year’s winner of the Q Hit Music Teacher of the Year award.

The winner was announced at the end-of-the-year luncheon for the LaSalle Elementary Schools last week. Our own Mike Krzak of Schweickert Ganassin Krzak Rundio, LLP was on hand to present Burgess with the award and accompanying $1,000 prize.

It’s a pleasure to share that our personal injury law firm, Schweickert Ganassin Krzak Rundio, LLP (SGKR), has again been nominated for the “Best of North Central Illinois” award for 2023. Our law firm, which has one office each in Ottawa, Peru, Chicago, and Morris, has previously won this annual “Best Of” recognition as a contender in the category of “Service: Personal Injury Attorney” for the past three years.

Winning is decided by votes from the community. Voting for our firm and this year’s other nominees kicked off today, Monday, February 20, at 12:01 a.m. and runs through Saturday, March 25, at 10:59 p.m. Studstill Media, the company that presents this regional award competition, will announce winners soon after the voting closes in late March.

The attorneys at Schweickert Ganassin Krzak Rundio, LLP (SGKR) are thrilled to announce the addition of attorney Melinda Rowe-Sullivan to our experienced and award-winning legal team. Ms. Rowe-Sulllivan, who grew up in the same LaSalle-Peru community that our law office serves, brings a wealth of experience in handling Illinois worker injury cases to our firm. She is eager to help ensure you get the compensation and justice you deserve in yours.

Clients who previously worked with an early ideation of our law firm, Schweickert & Ganassin, may remember working with lawyer Melinda Rowe-Sullivan early on during her legal career. She went on to work as an Arbitrator with the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission for six years before recently joining our rebranded law office of Schweickert Ganassin Krzak Rundio, LLP.

Matthew Rundio, partner with the North Central Illinois firm of Schweickert Ganassin Krzak Rundio, LLP, will be presenting on adjudicating liens at an upcoming Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) Update & Review Seminar. This professional workshop will take place at the Westin Chicago River North on Oct. 10, 2022.

ITLA is a professional organization that brings together attorneys from across our law firm’s service areas of Peru, Ottawa, Morris, Chicago and elsewhere throughout Illinois who have committed their legal careers to representing residents of our state that have been hurt in a personal injury incident, whether they were injured at work, home, or while out and about anywhere else in our great state.

Liens often play a big role in larger personal injury cases involving catastrophic injuries. Attorneys must have the necessary knowledge to address these financial obligations on a client’s behalf.

One of Schweickert Ganassin Krzak Rundio, LLP’s founding partners, Michael Krzak, is representing Alejandro Perez, a male motorist. He was unexpectedly struck by an Amazon delivery driver while waiting at an Evanston intersection two years ago during the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Perez continues to face significant functional impairments, including difficulty kneeling and standing, despite undergoing lower back surgery for his injuries soon after the accident.

After being nominated as a Best of North Central Illinois Business, Schweickert Ganassin Krzak Rundio, LLP is excited to announce that we have won the category for personal injury firm. We’re proud to receive this award again after receiving it last year and to continue serving the citizens of Illinois.

Schweickert Ganassin Krzak Rundio, LLP is pleased to announce that we have been nominated as a Best of North Central Illinois Business again in 2021. The nomination alone is prestigious since the Best of North Central Illinois Business compiles all of the businesses and organizations in our area and recognizes the best of the best for different categories.

At Schweickert Ganassin Krzak Rundio, LLP, we’re dedicated to providing our clients with expert legal representation. Since 2014, three of our lawyers have continually been recognized for these efforts and have been named to Super Lawyers’ Top Lawyers and Rising Stars lists. Michael Krzak and Matthew Rundio have been selected to the Top Lawyers list yet again in 2021, and Adriane Lashure has been selected to the Rising Star list this year as well.

Schweickert Ganassin Krzak Rundio, LLP recently donated to two food pantries in Illinois. With winter on the way and the holidays rapidly approaching, the food pantries that provide food assistance to local families can use these donations to help them serve those in need.