‘It Ends When I Say So!’ – Automatically Renewing Contracts in Illinois

My early experiences with automatic contract renewals weren’t warm and fuzzy ones.  Growing up, I recall Columbia House’s ageless pitchman Dick Clark breathlessly hawking “13 tapes for a dollar!” (or was it a penny?) offers across the pre-cable television airscape. I’d frantically sign up, the cassettes would soon arrive and – for a while, at least – …