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There are 25 judicial circuits in the state, each comprising one or more of Illinois' 102 counties. The jurisdiction of seven of these circuits courts are solely within the confines of a single county; these are Cook, Kane, Will, DuPage, Lake, McHenry (all Chicago metropolitan area counties), and St. Clair in Metro East. The other 18 circuits ...
The state does have a Lee County (founded 1839) named after the American Revolution's Henry Lee III, the father of Robert E. Lee from the Civil War, who at one time served in Illinois. Illinois also has two counties named after the same person, the prominent early 19th century New York governor DeWitt Clinton (DeWitt County, and Clinton County).
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.
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. [5] On February 13, 1855, by 10 Stat. 606, the District of Illinois was subdivided into Northern and the Southern Districts. [5]
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory. [1] [2]
Civil cases appealed from the Illinois Appellate Court are heard by the Supreme Court of Illinois upon the grant of a Petition for Leave to Appeal under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 315, [9] a Certificate of Importance under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 316, [10] or a Petition for Appeal as a Matter of Right under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 317 ...
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois was created on March 3, 1905 by 33 Stat. 992, [2] by splitting counties out of the Northern and Southern Districts. It was later eliminated in a reorganization on October 2, 1978 which replaced it with a Central District, 92 Stat. 883 , [ 2 ] formed primarily from parts of ...
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