Assembly. More importantly, as the appellate court recognized, the relevant portion of section 501 did not change here, while in Davis, the critical language of the state constitution did change. See 348 Ill. App. 3d at 867. Thus, the legislature here had no compelling need to overcome a finding of implicit repeal comparable to the legislature’s need in Davis to account for the revisions in the state constitution. No definitive resolution of the implicit repeal issue existed when the 1992 amendment was enacted because this court had not yet considered that question. As the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals acknowledged, federal opinions represent mere “educated guess[es]” as to this court’s ultimate ruling. See Reiser v. Residential Funding Corp., 380 F.3d 1027, 1029 (7th Cir. 2004) (<HOLDING>). Thus, the legislature would have no critical
recognizing conflict recognizing that these two recent supreme court decisions resolve the issue of whether federal regulations alone can create enforceable rights under  1983 recognizing the conflict recognizing the two lines of child custody cases but declining to resolve conflict recognizing that only the illinois supreme court could finally resolve the issue of implicit repeal explaining the state must resolve this conflict internally