Today, we continue our trip through the data for the trial courts which produced the Supreme Court’s Third District criminal cases between 2005 and 2019.
The Court decided three criminal cases from Will county in 2005, two in Grundy and Kankakee and one each in Henry, Rock Island and Warren counties. In 2006, the Court decided four cases from Will county and one from Kankakee, LaSalle and Tazewell. In 2007, the Court decided two cases from Peoria and one from Tazewell. In 2008, the Court decided five cases from Will county, four from Peoria and one each from Bureau county, Rock Island county and Tazewell county. In 2009, the Court decided three cases from Will county and one from Kankakee county and Peoria.
In 2010, the Court decided six cases from Peoria and one apiece from six different counties – Henry, Kankakee, Knox, LaSalle, Tazewell and Will counties. In 2011, the Court decided three cases from Peoria and two from Will county. In 2012, the Court decided four cases from Will county, three from Peoria and one from Henry, Kankakee and LaSalle. In 2013, the Court decided six cases from Henry county and four from Peoria. In 2014, the Court decided one case each from McDonough, Peoria, Stark and Whiteside counties.
In 2015, the Court decided four criminal cases from Will county and one from Peoria and Rock Island. In 2016, the Court decided two from Peoria and Will and one from Bureau, Hancock, Tazewell and Whiteside counties. The following year, the Court decided two criminal cases from LaSalle and Will counties and one from Peoria. In 2018, the Court decided four cases from Will county and one from LaSalle and Rock Island counties. So far in 2019, the Court has decided two criminal cases from Will county and one from Whiteside.
Finally, let’s compare, for each county in the District, the percentage share of the District’s population to that county’s share of civil and criminal cases.
Bureau county had proportional representation in the civil docket – 1.94% of the population and 1.75% of the civil cases – but overrepresented in criminal cases at 3.8%. Fulton county was underrepresented on both sides – 2.05% of the population, 0.54% of the criminal cases and no civil cases at all. Grundy county was overrepresented on the civil side and underrepresented on the criminal side – 2.78% of population, 3.51% of civil cases, 1.63% of civil cases. Hancock county had 1.06% of the population and 1.63% of the criminal cases, but no civil cases. Henderson county is quite small, only 0.41% of the District’s population, but produced no civil or criminal cases. Henry county, which has 2.8% of the District’s population, produced 1.76% of the civil cases, but 6.52% of the criminal cases.
Iroquois county accounts for only 1.65% of the population, 0.88% of the civil cases and no criminal cases. Kankakee county is 6.28% of the population as of 2010, 9.24% of criminal cases and 1.76% of the civil cases. Knox county is 2.83% of the population, 4.39% of the civil cases and 2.17% of the criminal cases. LaSalle county is 6.31% of the population, 7.07% of the criminal cases and 10.53% of the civil cases. Marshall county contributed no criminal cases and only 1.75% of the civil cases. It is 0.7% of the population of the District. McDonough county is 1.81% of the population and 0.54% of the criminal cases, but 8.11% of the civil cases. Mercer county is 0.91% of the District’s population and 0.54% of the criminal cases but produced no civil cases.
Peoria county is 10.33% of the population of the District. It accounted for 19.57% of the criminal cases and 22.81% of the civil cases. Putnam county is 0.33% of the population, produced no criminal cases and accounted for 2.63% of the civil cases. Rock Island county is 8.17% of the population, 7.07% of the criminal cases and 9.65% of the criminal cases. Stark county is only 0.33% of the population, 0.54% of the criminal cases and produced no civil cases. Tazewell county is 7.5% of the population, 4.89% of the criminal case load and 6.14% of the civil cases. Warren county accounts for only 0.98% of the population and is 1.63% of the criminal cases and 1.75% of the civil cases. Whiteside county is 3.24% of the population, 3.8% of the criminal cases and produced no civil cases. Finally, Will county is 37.52% of the total population of the District, but only 28.8% of the criminal cases and 28.07% of the civil cases.
Join us next week as we take up another District’s data.
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