Last time, we reviewed how the Supreme Court’s civil cases from the Second District were distributed among the District’s Circuit Courts, and then compared each county’s share of the total cases to its share of the total population of the Second District.  This week, we’re looking at the data for criminal cases.

In 1990, the Court decided two criminal cases each from Lake and Du Page counties.  In 1991, the Court decided two more from Du Page, two from Winnebago county and one each from Kane and Lake counties.  The following year, the Court decided four criminal cases from Du Page county, four from Kane, three from Lake and two from Winnebago.  In 1993, the Court decided two cases from Lake county and one each from McHenry, Kane and Boone.  In 1994, the cases were spread almost evenly across the District: two cases from Jo Daviess and Kane counties and one each from Lake, Du Page, Winnebago and Ogle.

In 1995, the Court decided three criminal cases from Du Page County, two each from Lake and Kane and one from Ogle.  In 1996, the Court decided three cases from Kane county and one from Lake.  The following year, the Court decided two cases from Lake county and one each from Du Page, Winnebago and Kane.

1998 was a busy year for the Second District, as the Court decided six cases from Du Page county, three from Lake, two each from Winnebago and Kane and one from Lee county.  In 1999, the Court decided six criminal cases from Lake county, two from Winnebago and one each from Du Page and Kane.

In 2000, the Supreme Court decided three criminal cases from Kane county, two from Du Page and one each from Lake and McHenry.  In 2001, the Court decided two cases from Kane county and one each from Lake, Du Page, McHenry and Winnebago.  The following year, the Court decided three cases from Kane, two each from Winnebago and De Kalb and one from Du Page and Lake counties.  In 2003, the Court decided three cases from Du Page county, two from Lake and one each from McHenry, Winnebago and Kane.  In 2004, the Court decided two cases from Du Page and Winnebago counties and one each from Lake, McHenry, Ogle and Kane counties.

Join us back here tomorrow, when we’ll address the data for the year 2005 to 2019.

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