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This list of county courthouses in Illinois provides information about each current Illinois county courthouse: name, photograph, city, construction year, and further comments. Each of the 102 county governments in the U.S. state of Illinois operates out of a building or complex of buildings known as the county's courthouse .
An independent position of Cook County recorder of deeds was re-created in December 1872. [2] On November 8, 2016, Cook County voters approved a binding referendum to eliminate the office, merging its functions into the purview of the Cook County Clerk. [3] The office formally ceased to exist on December 7, 2020. [4]
Dorothy Ann Rabb Brown Cook, [2] [3] [4] also known as Dorothy Brown (born September 4, 1953) is an American lawyer and politician affiliated with the Democratic Party who served as the clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County from 2000 through 2020.
The Cook County, Illinois, general election were held on November 5, 2024. [1] Elections were held for Clerk of the Circuit Court, State's Attorney, Board of Commissioners district 1, Cook County Board of Review district 1, four seats on the Water Reclamation District Board, and judgeships on the Circuit Court of Cook County. [2]
Knox would later become a county in Indiana and is unrelated to the current Knox County in Illinois, while St. Clair would become the oldest county in Illinois. 15 counties had been created by the time Illinois achieved statehood in 1818. The last county, Ford County, was created in 1859.
The Superior Court of Cook County was a court in Cook County, Illinois. It was preceded by earlier courts. 1845 saw the creation of the County Court of Cook County. [1] In 1849, this was renamed The Cook County Court of Common Pleas. [1] In 1859, this was continued as the newly-founded The Superior Court of Chicago.
The clerk of courts office keeps records for the common pleas, municipal, appeals and domestic relations courts. The juvenile and probate courts, which have the same judge, have their own clerk.
Henderson County was created out of Warren County in April 1841 by a law that designated also Oquawka the county seat, [1]: 865 and one of the first acts of the original county commission was to accept from commissioner Alexis Phelps a donation of land for county business. [2] (Phelps and others had reserved land for this purpose five years ...