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Circuit judges are generally elected on a circuit-wide basis or from the county where they reside. (In the Circuit Court of Cook County, which contains Chicago and is the largest of the 24 circuits in Illinois, circuit judges are elected from the entire county or as resident judges from each of the fifteen subcircuits within the county ...
The Illinois Appellate Court is the court of first appeal for civil and criminal cases rising in the Illinois circuit courts. Three Illinois Appellate Court judges hear each case and the concurrence of two is necessary to render a decision. [6] The Illinois Appellate Court will render its opinion in writing, in the form of a published opinion ...
The Illinois Appellate Court is the court of first appeal for civil and criminal cases rising in the Illinois Circuit Courts. In Illinois, litigants generally have a right to first appeal from final decisions or judgements of the circuit court. Three Illinois Appellate Court judges hear each case and the concurrence of two is necessary to ...
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)
Gilbert was appointed a circuit judge of the First Judicial Circuit of Illinois in January 1988 to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of William H. South. He was the Republican candidate for the full six-year term, to which he was elected in the 1988 general election against Democratic nominee Norma J. Beedle. [4]
The Court had also reorganized in 1841, after which Lockwood became responsible for the first judicial circuit. In 1837, Lockwood was the only dissenting judge in a case concerning the pre-emption homestead rights of trader Jean Baptiste Beaubien (brought by then fellow Morgan County lawyer Murray McConnell) shortly before the formal closing of ...
Mary Jane Theis (born February 27, 1949) is a justice of the Illinois Supreme Court for the First Judicial District in Cook County. In 2022, she became chief justice after the retirement of then-chief justice Anne M. Burke .
The first Municipal Court of Chicago was formed in 1837 by the same act of the Government of Illinois that incorporated the City of Chicago. [1] It was a court of general civil and criminal jurisdiction, operating concurrently with the Circuit Court in the city. [ 1 ]