From: Cook County Circuit Court

Cook County Circuit Court Only

eFileIL will be unavailable for the Civil, Law, Divisions 1 – 6 and Chancery Divisions TENTATIVELY on Monday, October 25, 2021, 8 p.m. through 8:00 a.m. [CDT] on Monday, November 1, 2021

Conventional filing will be available for these divisions during normal business hours of the clerk from 8:30am CDT to 4:30pm CDT on Tuesday, October 26, 2021 through Friday, October 29, 2021.

eFileIL Changes For Cook County

For All Civil Locations - If you are scheduling a motion on any Civil case you will now be required to select a Motion Type in the Filings Section of your eFiling envelope if you would like to schedule a court date for the motion you are filing. Failure to pick the correct Motion Type will result in the inability to schedule a court date. Please select the one that fits the case type or motion type you are filing. Select Motion Hearing-Type Not Listed if none of the other options fits your filing.

PLEASE NOTE: that this also applies to scheduling a date for all post judgment matters.

For Law Division District 1 [Calendars 1, 3, and 5] and Law Districts 2 thru 6 [Calendars G, K, L, O, and P]will also allow motion scheduling for eFiling.

For Chancery Division, the motion type will no longer be selected in the Case Cross Reference section. It will now be selected in the Filings section. Select your motion related filing code and then select your motion type in the dropdown box below the filing code. There will be more motion codes than before, please select the one that fits the case type or motion type you are filing. Select Motion Hearing-Type Not Listed if none of the other options fits your filing