97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB2756

 

Introduced 1/18/2012, by Sen. John J. Cullerton

 

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

 

 

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1Morgan, Scott, Greene and Jersey.
2    Eighth Circuit--The counties of Adams, Schuyler, Mason,
3Cass, Brown, Pike, Calhoun and Menard.
4    Ninth Circuit--The counties of Knox, Warren, Henderson,
5Hancock, McDonough and Fulton.
6    Tenth Circuit--The counties of Peoria, Marshall, Putnam,
7Stark and Tazewell.
8    Eleventh Circuit--The counties of McLean, Livingston,
9Logan, Ford and Woodford.
10    Twelfth Circuit--The county of Will.
11    Thirteenth Circuit--The counties of Bureau, LaSalle and
12Grundy.
13    Fourteenth Circuit--The counties of Rock Island, Mercer,
14Whiteside and Henry.
15    Fifteenth Circuit--The counties of JoDaviess, Stephenson,
16Carroll, Ogle and Lee.
17    Sixteenth Circuit--Before December 3, 2012, the counties
18of Kane, DeKalb, and Kendall. On and after December 3, 2012,
19the County of Kane.
20    Seventeenth Circuit--The counties of Winnebago and Boone.
21    Eighteenth Circuit--The county of DuPage.
22    Nineteenth Circuit--Before December 4, 2006, the counties
23of Lake and McHenry. On and after December 4, 2006, the County
24of Lake.
25    Twentieth Circuit--The counties of Randolph, Monroe, St.
26Clair, Washington and Perry.

 

 

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1    Twenty-first Circuit--The counties of Iroquois and
2Kankakee.
3    Twenty-second Circuit--On and after December 4, 2006, the
4County of McHenry.
5    Twenty-third Circuit--On and after December 3, 2012, the
6counties of DeKalb and Kendall.
7(Source: P.A. 97-585, eff. 8-26-11.)