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The Supreme Court of Illinois is the state supreme court, the highest court of the judiciary of Illinois.The court's authority is granted in Article VI of the current Illinois Constitution, which provides for seven justices elected from the five appellate judicial districts of the state: three justices from the First District (Cook County) and one from each of the other four districts.
Map of Illinois judicial circuits. Several courts have been approved by the Supreme Court to operate electronic court filing (e-filing) systems. [19] The official reporter for opinions of the Supreme Court and the Appellate Court are published on the website of the Supreme Court using a public domain case citation.
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 .
State supreme courts are completely distinct from any United States federal courts located within the geographical boundaries of a state's territory, or the federal-level Supreme Court. The exact duties and powers of the state supreme courts are established by state constitutions and state law. [ 2 ]
Federal courts located in Illinois Further information: Federal judiciary of the United States United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (headquartered in Chicago , having jurisdiction over the United States District Courts of Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin)
(The Center Square) – It’s now up to the Illinois Supreme Court to decide if a recently enacted state law limiting where people can file constitutional challenges against the state to Sangamon ...
A Cook County judge on Thursday placed a Democrat and two Republicans vying for a spot on the Illinois Supreme Court back on the ballot after the Illinois State Board of Elections last month ...
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (in case citations, N.D. Ill.) is the federal trial court with jurisdiction over the northern counties of Illinois. It is one of the busiest federal trial courts in the United States, with famous cases including those of Al Capone and the Chicago Eight. [1]