This time, we’re wrapping up this multi-part post, reviewing the trial court data for the civil cases from the Fifth District between 2020 and 2022.

The Court has decided eleven cases since the beginning of 2020.  In 2020, there were two cases from Madison County and one each from Williamson, Effingham, Randolph and Franklin.  In 2021, there were two cases from St. Clair County and one each from Hamilton and Madison.  So far in 2022, the Court has only decided one case from St. Clair County.

Join us back here next time as we turn our attention to a new topic.

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This time, we’re reviewing the civil cases from the Fourth District reviewed by the Supreme Court in the first third of this decade, from 2020 to 2022-to-date.

Spoiler alert: there weren’t many.  The Court reviewed one civil case from Adams County in 2020.  In 2021, the Court decided one case from McLean and one from Sangamon.  So far in 2022, the Court has decided one case from McLean County.

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This time, we’re reviewing the county-level data on the Third District civil cases reviewed by the Supreme Court between 2020 and 2022 (so far).

The Court decided no Third District civil cases in 2020.  In 2021, there were three cases from Will County and one each originating in Grundy, Putnam and Kankakee counties.  So far in 2022, the Court has decided one case from Will County, one from Grundy and one from Peoria County.

Next up: the Fourth District numbers.

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This time, we’re wrapping up our four-part post by reviewing the county-by-county data for the first third of the current decade: 2020-2022.

In the past three years, the Supreme Court has reviewed ten civil cases from the Second District.  In 2021, there were four cases from Lake County.  In 2020, there were one each from Winnebago, DuPage and McHenry counties.  This year so far, there has been one each from DuPage, McHenry and Kane counties.

Next time: the Third District.

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Madison and St. Clair counties account for well over half of the population of the Fifth District counties which produced cases in the past decade – 29.09% in Madison, 28.17% in St. Clair.  Williamson was 7.35%, Jackson had 5.8%, Franklin was 4.14%, Marion was 4.13% and Jefferson County had 4.06%.  Clinton County accounted for 4.04%.  Effingham had 3.79%.  Saline County was 2.6%, Crawford had 2.04%, Richland County was 1.73%, Massac had 1.55% and Washington County accounted for 1.51%.

Madison County produced eight cases during the decade.  St. Clair had seven cases.  Marion County accounted for four cases.  Jackson had three, Jefferson County had two, Saline produced two cases and Williamson had two.  Seven counties accounted for one case each – Massac, Richland, Franklin, Washington, Effingham, Clinton and Crawford counties.

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According to the 2020 census, McLean County had 24.18% of the population scattered among the Fourth District counties which produced civil cases for the Supreme Court’s docket between 2010 and 2019.  Sangamon had 23.06%, McLean had 20.08%, Macon County had 12.21%, Vermillion County had 8.71%, Macoupin was 5.28% and Woodford County was 4.52%.  Piatt was the smallest county producing cases, with only 1.96%.

Sangamon County nevertheless accounted for most of the civil cases – 18 cases in eight of the ten years of the decade.  Champaign County had eight cases.  Macoupin produced four.  McLean, Vermillion and Macon counties had two each and Woodford and Piatt counties produced one case apiece.

Next up – the Fifth District, as we wind up this multi-part post.

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This time, we’re looking at the Third District docket of Supreme Court cases.

Will County dominates the Third in population, with nearly four times the population of the next biggest county according to the 2020 census.  Will has 47.82%.  Peoria has 12.49% of the population among counties which produced cases.  Rock Island County was 9.93%, Tazewell was 9.02% and LaSalle County was 7.53%.  The remaining counties are all far smaller, with populations of 60,000 or less – Whiteside, Grundy, Knox, Warren, Marshall and Putnam.

Of course, Will and Peoria County accounted for most of the cases coming out of the Third District in the last decade.  Will County had twelve cases, placing at least one on the Supreme Court’s civil docket in nine of the ten years.  Peoria had five cases.  The remaining cases were scattered – three in La Salle County and one each in Warren, Whiteside, Rock Island, Putnam, Tazewell, Marshall, Grundy and Knox counties.

Next up – the Fourth District.

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This week, we’re concluding our series tracing the origin of the civil cases reviewed by the Supreme Court, District by District, since 1990.

First, we look at the population distribution for the counties that produced cases in the just-ended decade.  DuPage County is at 30.67%.  Lake County accounts for 23.49%.  Kane is 16.98%, McHenry is 10.2% and Winnebago County is 9.38%.  The remaining counties which produced cases – Kendall, Henry, Stephenson, Lee and Jo Daviess – were all much smaller than Winnebago.

The distribution of civil cases over the past decade has more-or-less followed this population distribution.  DuPage had cases at the Supreme Court in six of the ten years; Kane was there in seven years and Lake County had cases in seven years.  Lake County had fifteen cases, DuPage County an even dozen and Kane County had nine.  The rest of the docket was widely scattered – four cases from Winnebago County, two each from Stephenson and Kendall and one case apiece from McHenry, Jo Daviess, Henry and Lee Counties.

Next up – the Third District.

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For our second decade, we once again begin by reviewing the population distribution among the counties that produced cases between 2000 and 2009.

St. Clair and Madison counties were separated by only about 800 people in the 2010 census – St. Clair was 25.58% of the population in the District and Madison was 25.51%.  Williamson County was next at 6.29%, followed by Jackson County at 5.7%.  Six additional counties were barely over 3% – Franklin (3.75%), Marion (3.74%), Jefferson (3.68%), Christian (3.3%), Randolph (3.17%) and Monroe counties (3.12%).  Eight more counties were less than 3% of the District population (which translates to about 30,000 people and below).

Both Madison and St. Clair produced cases in nine of the ten years.  St. Clair County accounted for 19 cases; Madison had 11.  Williamson County had four cases.  There were three cases apiece in Jefferson and Franklin counties.  The Court reviewed one case each from twenty different counties scattered around the District.

Next up – we review the years 2010 through 2019.

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The Fourth District population is much more evenly distributed than the Third District is.  Champaign County is 20.25%.  Sangamon, home of the state capitol, is 19.89%.  McLean County accounts for 17.99% and Macon County is 11.16%.  Vermillion County accounts for 8.22%, Adams is 6.76% and Coles County is 5.43%.  The remaining counties are substantially smaller.

Sangamon County had by far the most cases in the District for this decade, accounting for 18 cases.  Champaign and McLean counties had eight cases each.  Macon  County produced four cases.  Vermillion and Adams County had three cases, Edgar County had two and eight remaining counties produced one case apiece.

Next up: the Fifth District.

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