United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

The court's jurisdiction is split into an eastern division, including Cook, DuPage, McHenry, Grundy, Kane, Kendall, LaSalle, Lake, and Will counties, with its sessions held in Chicago and Wheaton; and a western division, including Boone, Carroll, DeKalb, Jo Daviess, Lee, Ogle, Stephenson, Whiteside, and Winnebago counties, with its sessions held in Freeport and Rockford. == History ==

in Chicago, one of four locations where the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois holds sessions. The United States District Court for the District of Illinois was established by a statute passed by the United States Congress on March 3, 1819, . The act established a single office for a judge to preside over the court. Initially, the court was not within any existing judicial circuit, and appeals from the court were taken directly to the United States Supreme Court. In 1837, Congress created the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, placing it in Chicago, Illinois and giving it jurisdiction over the District of Illinois, . == Current judges ==

== List of U.S. attorneys since 1857 ==

• Augustus M. Herrington, 1857–1858 • Henry S. Fitch, 1858–1861 • Edwin C. Larned, 1861 • Joseph O. Glover, 1869 • Mark Bangs, 1875–1879 • Joseph B. Seake, 1879–1884 • Richard S. Tuthill, 1884–1886 • William G. Ewing, 1886–1890 • Thomas E. Milchrist, 1891–1893 • Sherwood Dixon, 1893–1894 • John C. Black, 1895–1899 • Solomon H. Bethea, 1899–1905 • Charles B. Morrison, 1905–1906 • Edwin W. Sims, 1906–1911 • James Herbert Wilkerson, 1911–1914 • Charles F. Clyne, 1914–1922 • Edwin A. Olson, 1922–1927 • George E. Q. Johnson, 1927–1931 • Dwight H. Green, 1931–1935 • Michael L. Igoe, 1935–1938 • William Joseph Campbell, 1938–1940 • J. Albert Woll, 1940–1947 • Otto Kerner Jr., 1947–1954 • Irwin N. Cohen, 1954 • Robert Tieken, 1954–1961 • James P. O'Brien, 1961–1963 • Frank E. McDonald, 1963–1964 • Edward Hanrahan, 1964–1968 • Tom Foran, 1968–1970 • William J. Bauer, 1970–1971 • James R. Thompson, 1971–1975 • Samuel K. Skinner, 1975–1977 • Thomas P. Sullivan, 1977–1981 • Gregory C. Jones, 1981 • Dan K. Webb, 1981–1985 • Anton R. Valukas, 1985–1989 • Ira A. Raphaelson, 1989–1990 • Fred Foreman, 1990–1993 • Michael J. Shepard, 1993 • Jim Burns, 1993–1997 • Scott R. Lassar, 1997–2001 • Patrick Fitzgerald, 2001–2012 • Gary S. Shapiro, 2012–2013 • Zachary T. Fardon, 2013–2017 • Joel R. Levin, 2017 • John R. Lausch Jr., 2017–2023 • Morris Pasqual, 2023–2025 • Andrew S. Boutros, 2025- == See also ==