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McHenry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 Census, it had a population of 310,229, [2] making it the sixth-most populous county in Illinois. Its county seat is Woodstock. [3] McHenry County is one of the five Illinois collar counties in the Chicago metropolitan area.
In the Circuit Court of Cook County, which contains Chicago and is the largest of the 22 circuits in Illinois, circuit judges are elected from the entire county or as resident judges from each of the fifteen subcircuits within the county. Associate judges are appointed by circuit judges, under Supreme Court rules, for four-year terms.
The last county, Ford County, was created by the Illinois government in 1859. Cook County, established in 1831 and named for the early Illinois Attorney General Daniel Pope Cook , contained the absolute majority of the state's population in the first half of the 20th century and retains more than 40% of it as of the 2020 census [update] .
Initially, the court was not within any existing judicial circuit, and appeals from the court were taken directly to the United States Supreme Court. In 1837, Congress created the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, placing it in Chicago, Illinois and giving it jurisdiction over the District of Illinois, 5 Stat. 176. [4]
∎ Tippecanoe County Fairgrounds, 1406 Teal Road, Lafayette. ∎ Lafayette Community Church of the Nazarene, 3801 Union St., Lafayette. ∎ Evangelical Covenant Church, 3600 S.
Clayton R. Williams (c. 1940s): [75] First African American male lawyer in Madison County, Illinois. He would later become a judge. Mario J. Perez: [76] First Latino American male lawyer in McHenry County, Illinois; Carlos S. Arevalo: [77] First Hispanic American to serve as the President of the McHenry County Bar Association, Illinois (2014)
(The Center Square) – Whether Illinois should be enjoined from enforcing the state’s gun and magazine ban starting Monday is now up to a federal appeals court. Illinois enacted the Protect ...
Barack Obama won all the collar counties in 2008, and four of them (all but McHenry) have voted for the Democratic nominee in every presidential election since. By the 2020 presidential election, all but one county backed Joe Biden, with Donald Trump carrying McHenry County by a narrow 2.5 points. Similarly, the counties now favor Democrats in ...