96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB1948

 

Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Constance A. Howard

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
705 ILCS 35/1   from Ch. 37, par. 72.1

    Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the judicial circuits.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning courts.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Circuit Courts Act is amended by changing
5 Section 1 as follows:
 
6     (705 ILCS 35/1)  (from Ch. 37, par. 72.1)
7     Sec. 1. Judicial circuits created. The The county of Cook
8 shall be one judicial circuit and the State of Illinois,
9 exclusive of the county of Cook, shall be and is divided into
10 judicial circuits as follows:
11     First Circuit--The counties of Alexander, Pulaski, Massac,
12 Pope, Johnson, Union, Jackson, Williamson and Saline.
13     Second Circuit--The counties of Hardin, Gallatin, White,
14 Hamilton, Franklin, Wabash, Edwards, Wayne, Jefferson,
15 Richland, Lawrence and Crawford.
16     Third Circuit--The counties of Madison and Bond.
17     Fourth Circuit--The counties of Clinton, Marion, Clay,
18 Fayette, Effingham, Jasper, Montgomery, Shelby and Christian.
19     Fifth Circuit--The counties of Vermilion, Edgar, Clark,
20 Cumberland and Coles.
21     Sixth Circuit--The counties of Champaign, Douglas,
22 Moultrie, Macon, DeWitt and Piatt.
23     Seventh Circuit--The counties of Sangamon, Macoupin,

 

 

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1 Morgan, Scott, Greene and Jersey.
2     Eighth Circuit--The counties of Adams, Schuyler, Mason,
3 Cass, Brown, Pike, Calhoun and Menard.
4     Ninth Circuit--The counties of Knox, Warren, Henderson,
5 Hancock, McDonough and Fulton.
6     Tenth Circuit--The counties of Peoria, Marshall, Putnam,
7 Stark and Tazewell.
8     Eleventh Circuit--The counties of McLean, Livingston,
9 Logan, Ford and Woodford.
10     Twelfth Circuit--The county of Will.
11     Thirteenth Circuit--The counties of Bureau, LaSalle and
12 Grundy.
13     Fourteenth Circuit--The counties of Rock Island, Mercer,
14 Whiteside and Henry.
15     Fifteenth Circuit--The counties of JoDaviess, Stephenson,
16 Carroll, Ogle and Lee.
17     Sixteenth Circuit--The counties of Kane, DeKalb and
18 Kendall.
19     Seventeenth Circuit--The counties of Winnebago and Boone.
20     Eighteenth Circuit--The county of DuPage.
21     Nineteenth Circuit--Before December 4, 2006, the counties
22 of Lake and McHenry. On and after December 4, 2006, the County
23 of Lake.
24     Twentieth Circuit--The counties of Randolph, Monroe, St.
25 Clair, Washington and Perry.
26     Twenty-first Circuit--The counties of Iroquois and

 

 

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1 Kankakee.
2     Twenty-second Circuit--On and after December 4, 2006, the
3 County of McHenry.
4 (Source: P.A. 93-541, eff. 8-18-03.)