Illinois Legal Overview: Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City The Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City combined statistical area or CSA is defined by the Census Bureau as the Chicago-Joliet-Naperville (IL-IN-WI) metropolitan area plus the cities of Kankakee, IL and Michigan City, IN. This means the Chicago metro area spans across ten counties in Illinois, five in Indiana and one in Wisconsin. Chicago is the county seat for Cook County and is served by the Cook Judicial Circuit. Listed below are some of the main Illinois cities in the Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City metro area.
Top Illinois cities for Legal Issues: Chicago
1. The Cook Judicial Circuit is divided into county, municipal and juvenile/child protection departments, along with a traffic section and a marriage court. The county department has separate chancery, county, criminal, law, domestic relations, and domestic violence and probate divisions. The criminal and law courts have general jurisdiction and function as the main trial courts for Cook County and Chicago. The municipal department is divided into six districts, with one limited jurisdiction municipal court each in six Cook County cities including Chicago, Skokie, Rolling Meadows, Maywood, Bridgeview and Markham.
Trending Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City Legal Topics: The Illinois Appellate Court is divided into five districts, with Cook County coming under the First Appellate District. Appeals against verdicts handed down by Illinois circuit courts in the Chicago metro area will either be heard by the First District Appellate Court in Chicago or the Second District Appellate Court in Elgin. The Illinois Supreme Court is the court of last resort. Federal cases in Illinois cities within the Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City are to be filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. |