is defined in Black’s Law Dictionary as that “which does not finally determine a cause of action but only decides some intervening matter pertaining to the cause, and which requires further steps to be taken in order to enable the court to adjudicate the cause on the merits.” Black’s Law Dictionary 815 (6th ed. 1990). The default order standing alone is not decisive or conclusive of the rights of the parties to the discrimination complaint. At most, the decision of the chief legal counsel amounted to a finding of liability, without any damages being decided. A finding of liability alone on a claim seeking damages does not dispose of the subject matter of that claim until damages have been determined. Stotlar Drug Co. v. Marlow, 239 Ill. App. 3d 726, 728, 607 N.E.2d 346 (1993) (<HOLDING>). In its petition for rehearing, the Department
holding an order of default was not final where it resolved only the question of liability and the case was continued for proof on the issue of damages holding that an order establishing liability but referring the issue of damages to arbitration is not final holding that where the district court decided two issues in the certified order but identified only the damages issue as the controlling question of law the court of appeals could nonetheless address the other issue holding that rule 6e motion filed after criminal proceedings terminated was independent proceeding and that order entered was final and appealable under  1291 because it conclusively resolved disclosure issue which was only issue raised holding that the order on the wifes petition for modification of child support was a final order because it disposed of all the issues except for the ancillary issue of attorneys fees