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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.
Modern-day county formation dates to 1790 when the area was part of the Northwest Territory; two counties—St. Clair and Knox—were created at that time. 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.
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 ]
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 ...
Descriptions of each individual state highway are filed with the county clerk of the county in which the state highway resides. [4] State highways may be maintained by either the municipalities if within a municipality, or the Illinois Department of Transportation. [ 5 ]
The courthouse was built in 1914 to provide a larger space for county government, which had outgrown the previous courthouse built in 1849 and had begun to spread across multiple buildings. [2] Lincoln, Illinois architects Deal & Ginzel designed the courthouse; the pair was also responsible for two other county courthouse designs in Illinois ...
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The office of Cook County Clerk was established in 1831, the year that Cook County, Illinois was created. For the first several years, the clerk was appointed by the three-member Cook County Board of Commissioners. This was changed, and it became an elected office with a four-year term in 1837, with the first election being held in August of ...