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The Franklin County Courthouse is a government building located in Benton, Illinois. It took 620 days to complete from start to finish, costing around $13 million for the courthouse itself. A nearby government building also saw renovations so it could house the courtrooms and the Circuit Clerk's office while the courthouse was under construction.
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]
Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough has been dogged by accusations she inappropriately mixed her work as a public official with her personal and political business, even to the point that a federal ...
Dane County was renamed in 1840 to the current Christian County. The original Knox County, Illinois, became extinct with the formation of the Illinois Territory in 1809 - or, more precisely, it became Knox County, Indiana. The modern Knox County, Illinois was formed much later and was not a part of the original Knox County.
For decades thereafter, the office served not only as the Circuit Court's clerk, but also served as the ex-officio county recorder of deeds. [2] This ended in 1872, when the county's recorder of deeds was again created as a separate office. [2] On January 1, 1964, the more than 200 courts of Cook County were unified. [3]
County elected offices in Illinois include seats on the county board and the offices of sheriff, coroner, circuit clerk (for the courts), county clerk (for the county government), state's attorney, and treasurer. Counties of 60,000 or more have a recorder of deeds separate from the country clerk.
Manchester is a village in southeast Scott County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2000 census , the village population was 354. It is part of the Jacksonville Micropolitan Statistical Area .