Attorney]: The defendant has sat up here and told you a story. That is at times very different than what the Howard’s [sic] told you and he is the one who has had the three felony conviction for this same offense. Who’s got the motivation to he here[?]” Defendant never objected to the State’s reference to his prior convictions during closing arguments. Defendant now complains that the trial court erred in allowing the State to present evidence of his prior convictions of home repair fraud and prohibiting him from explaining to the jury that he was unable to complete performance on the contract because he was in jail. However, defendant has waived consideration of this issue by failing to obtain a ruling on his posttrial motions. See People v. Land, 178 Ill. App. 3d 251, 256 (1988) (<HOLDING>). Moreover, as we explain below, even if this
holding that failure to file a postjudgment motion on alleged error of law relating to ruling on exception to the statute of frauds that was committed for first time in the judgment waives any objection to that ruling and that in the absence of any other formal objection the issue is not preserved for appellate review holding that in ruling on a motion for summary judgment the trial court is limited to the grounds raised in the motion holding that the failure to obtain a ruling on a motion for new trial waives the issues raised for appellate review holding that appellants failure to obtain a ruling at the trial level even on a constitutional issue precluded review on appeal holding issues not raised to and ruled upon by the trial court are not preserved for appellate review