CIRCUIT COURT MAPS

Circuit Court Elections & Retentions

The court of "original jurisdiction" is the circuit court. There are twenty-two circuits in the state, three of which are single county circuits (Cook, Will, and DuPage). The remaining nineteen circuits contain two to twelve counties per circuit.

There are two kinds of judges in the circuit court: circuit judges and associate judges. Circuit judges are elected for six years, may be retained by voters for additional six year terms, and can hear any kind of case. Circuit judges are elected on a circuit-wide basis or from the county where they reside. In Cook County, circuit judges are elected from the entire county or as resident judges from each of the fifteen subcircuits within the county.

Associate judges are appointed by circuit judges, under supreme court rules, for four-year terms. An associate judge can hear any case, except criminal cases punishable by a prison term of one year or more, unless the associate judge has received approval from the supreme court to hear other criminal cases.

- Cook County Circuit Court

- Cook County Subcircuits

Second Appellate District:

- 15th Circuit Court: Carroll-Jo Daviess-Lee-Ogle-Stephenson

- 16th Circuit Court: DeKalb-Kane-Kendall

- 17th Circuit Court: Boone-Winnebago

- 18th Circuit Court: DuPage

- 19th Circuit Court: Lake

- 22nd Circuit Court: McHenry

- 9th Circuit Court: Fulton-Hancock-Henderson-Knox-McDonough-Warren

- 10th Circuit Court: Marshall-Peoria-Putnam-Stark-Tazewell

- 12th Circuit Court: Will

- 13th Circuit Court: Bureau-Grundy-LaSalle

- 14th Circuit Court: Henry-Rock Island-Mercer-Whiteside

- 21st Circuit Court: Iroquois-Kankakee

- 5th Circuit Court: Clark-Coles-Cumberland-Edgar-Vermilion

- 6th Circuit Court: Champaign-DeWitt-Douglas-Macon-Moultrie-Piatt

- 7th Circuit Court: Greene-Jersey-Macoupin-Morgan-Sangamon-Scott

- 8th Circuit Court: Adams-Brown-Calhoun-Cass-Mason-Menard-Pike-Schuyler

- 11th Circuit Court: Ford-Livingston-Logan-McLean-Woodford

- 1st Circuit Court: Alexander-Jackson-Johnson-Massac-Pope-Pulaski

Saline-Union-Williamson

- 2nd Circuit Court: Crawford-Edwards-Franklin-Gallatin-Hamilton-Hardin

Jefferson-Lawrence-Richland-Wabash-Wayne-White

- 3rd Circuit Court: Bond-Madison

- 4th Circuit Court: Christian-Clay-Clinton-Effingham-Fayette-Jasper

Marion-Montgomery-Shelby

- 20th Circuit Court: Monroe-Perry-Randolph-St. Clair-Washington 

A full list of all judicial candidates in Illinois can be found here.  A full list of judges seeking retention can be found here.

(By County)