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[CITE: 28USC93]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART I--ORGANIZATION OF COURTS
 
                       CHAPTER 5--DISTRICT COURTS
 
Sec. 93. Illinois

    Illinois is divided into three judicial districts to be known as the 
Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of Illinois.

                            Northern District

    (a) The Northern District comprises two divisions.

          (1) The Eastern Division comprises the counties of Cook, Du 
                 Page, Grundy, Kane, Kendall, Lake, La Salle, and Will.

          Court for the Eastern Division shall be held at Chicago and 
                                        Wheaton.

           (2) The Western Division comprises the counties of Boone, 
                   Carroll, De Kalb, Jo Daviess, Lee, McHenry, Ogle, 
                          Stephenson, Whiteside, and Winnebago.

          Court for the Western Division shall be held at Freeport and 
                                        Rockford.

                            Central District

        (b) The Central District comprises the counties of Adams, Brown, 
                  Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, De Witt, 
                     Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Fulton, Greene, Hancock, 
                Henderson, Henry, Iroquois, Kankakee, Knox, Livingston, 
                  Logan, McDonough, McLean, Macoupin, Macon, Marshall, 
                  Mason, Menard, Mercer, Montgomery, Morgan, Moultrie, 
                  Peoria, Piatt, Pike, Putnam, Rock Island, Sangamon, 
                  Schuyler, Scott, Shelby, Stark, Tazewell, Vermilion, 
                                  Warren, and Woodford.

           Court for the Central District shall be held at Champaign/
                   Urbana, Danville, Peoria, Quincy, Rock Island, and 
                                      Springfield.

                            Southern District

         (c) The Southern District comprises the counties of Alexander, 
                     Bond, Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, 
                   Cumberland, Edwards, Effingham, Fayette, Franklin, 
                Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, 
                  Jersey, Johnson, Lawrence, Madison, Marion, Massac, 
                 Monroe, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Richland, St. 
                Clair, Saline, Union, Wabash, Washington, Wayne, White, 
                                     and Williamson.

        Court for the Southern District shall be held at Alton, Benton, 
                              Cairo, and East Saint Louis.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 878; Aug. 10, 1950, ch. 675, Sec. 1, 
64 Stat. 438; Pub. L. 87-36, Sec. 3(c), May 19, 1961, 75 Stat. 83; Pub. 
L. 91-272, Sec. 8, June 2, 1970, 84 Stat. 297; Pub. L. 95-408, 
Sec. 4(b)(1), Oct. 2, 1978, 92 Stat. 884; Pub. L. 95-573, Sec. 1, Nov. 
2, 1978, 92 Stat. 2458; Pub. L. 98-620, title IV, Sec. 406(a), (c), Nov. 
8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3361; Pub. L. 106-130, Sec. 2, Dec. 6, 1999, 113 Stat. 
1677.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 152 (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 
231, Sec. 79, 36 Stat. 1110; Aug. 12, 1937, ch. 594, 50 Stat. 624; June 
6, 1940, ch. 247, 54 Stat. 237).
    Provisions relating to appointment of deputy marshals and 
maintenance of offices by deputy marshals and deputy clerks were omitted 
as covered by sections 452, 541 [see 561], 542 [see 561], and 751 of 
this title.
    Changes in arrangement and phraseology were made.


                               Amendments

    1999--Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 106-130 inserted ``and Wheaton'' 
before period at end.
    1984--Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 98-620, Sec. 406(a)(1), struck out De 
Kalb and McHenry from the counties comprising the Eastern Division of 
the Northern District.
    Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 98-620, Sec. 406(a)(2), added De Kalb and 
McHenry to the counties comprising the Western Division of the Northern 
District.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 98-620, Sec. 406(c), provided for holding court 
at Champaign/Urbana.
    1978--Pub. L. 95-408 substituted in introductory provisions 
``Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of Illinois'' for 
``Northern, Southern, and Eastern Districts of Illinois''.
    Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 95-573, Sec. 1(1), struck out Kankakee from 
the counties comprising the Eastern Division of the Northern District.
    Pub. L. 95-408 added Kankakee to the counties comprising the Eastern 
Division of the Northern District.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 95-573, Sec. 1(2), added Kankakee to the 
counties comprising the Central District.
    Pub. L. 95-408 substituted ``Central District'' for ``Southern 
District'' in heading, struck out subsec. (b)(1) and (2) designations, 
which divided Southern District into a Northern and Southern Division, 
and in such newly created Central District, added counties of Champaign, 
Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Iroquois, Moultrie, Piatt, Shelby, and 
Vermilion to, and struck out counties of Bond, Calhoun, Jersey, and 
Madison from, those counties comprising the new Central District, and 
substituted provisions for holding of a term of Court for Central 
District at Danville, Peoria, Quincy, Rock Island, and Springfield for 
provisions for holding of a term of Court for Northern Division of the 
former Southern District at Peoria and Rock Island and for Southern 
Division of former Southern District at Alton, Quincy, and Springfield.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 95-408 substituted ``Southern District'' for 
``Eastern District'' in heading, and in such Southern District added 
counties of Bond, Calhoun, Jersey, and Madison to, and struck out 
counties of Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee, 
Moultrie, Piatt, Shelby and Vermilion from, those counties comprising 
Southern District, and substituted provisions for holding of a term of 
Court for Southern District at Alton, Benton, Cairo, and East Saint 
Louis for provisions for holding of a term of Court for Eastern District 
at Benton, Cairo, Danville, and East Saint Louis.
    1970--Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 91-272 provided for holding court at 
Rockford.
    1961--Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 87-36 provided for holding court at 
Alton.
    1950--Subsec. (b)(1). Act Aug. 10, 1950, provided for holding court 
at Rock Island.


                    Effective Date of 1984 Amendment

    Section 406(b) of Pub. L. 98-620 provided that: ``The amendments 
made by subsection (a) of this section [amending this section] shall 
apply to any action commenced in the United States District Court for 
the Northern District of Illinois on or after the effective date of this 
subtitle [Jan. 1, 1985], and shall not affect any action pending in such 
court on such effective date.''
    Amendment by Pub. L. 98-620 effective Jan. 1, 1985, and not to 
affect the composition, or preclude the service, of any grand or petit 
jury summoned, impaneled, or actually serving on that date, see section 
411 of Pub. L. 98-620, set out as a note under section 85 of this title.


                    Effective Date of 1978 Amendment

    Section 6 of Pub. L. 95-573, as amended by Pub. L. 96-4, Sec. 2, 
Mar. 30, 1979, 93 Stat. 7, provided that:
    ``(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the 
provisions of this Act [amending this section and sections 99, 112, and 
118 of this title and enacting a provision set out as a note under 
section 84 of this title] shall take effect 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act [Nov. 2, 1978].
    ``(b)(1) The provisions of section 5 of this Act [set out as a note 
under section 84 of this title] shall take effect on the date of 
enactment of this Act [Nov. 2, 1978].
    ``(2) The provisions of the first section of this Act [amending this 
section] shall take effect on March 31, 1979.
    ``(c) Nothing in this Act [amending this section and sections 99, 
112, and 118 of this title and enacting provisions set out as a note 
under section 84 of this title] shall affect the composition or preclude 
the service of any grand or petit juror summoned, empaneled, or actually 
serving in any judicial district on the effective date of this Act.''


           Effective Date of 1978 Amendment; Savings Provision

    Amendment by Pub. L. 95-408 effective 180 days after Oct. 2, 1978, 
with such amendment not to affect the composition or preclude the 
service of any grand or petit juror summoned, empaneled, or actually 
serving in any judicial district on the effective date of this Act, see 
section 5 of Pub. L. 95-408, set out as a note under section 89 of this 
title.


   District Judges, United States Attorneys, Assistant United States 
     Attorneys, and United States Marshals for Central and Southern 
         Districts; Designation; Tenure; Appointment; Grand Jury

    Pub. L. 95-408, Sec. 4(b)(2)-(4), as added by Pub. L. 96-4, Sec. 1, 
Mar. 30, 1979, 93 Stat. 6, provided that:
    ``(2) The district judge for the Eastern District of Illinois in 
office on the effective date of this Act [180 days after Oct. 2, 1978] 
who is senior in commission shall, on and after the effective date of 
this Act, be a district judge for the Southern District of Illinois. The 
remaining district judge for the Eastern District of Illinois who is in 
office on the effective date of this Act and the district judges for the 
Southern District of Illinois who are in office on the effective date of 
this Act shall, on and after the effective date of this Act, be district 
judges for the Central District of Illinois. The President shall 
appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a second 
district judge for the Southern District of Illinois.
    ``(3) This section does not in any manner affect the tenure of the 
United States attorney, the assistant United States attorneys, or the 
United States marshal for the Eastern District of Illinois or for the 
Southern District of Illinois who are in office on the effective date of 
this Act [180 days after Oct. 2, 1978]. The United States attorney, the 
assistant United States attorneys, and the United States marshal for the 
Eastern District and for the Southern District of Illinois shall, on the 
effective date of this Act, become the United States attorney, the 
assistant United States attorneys, and the United States marshal for the 
Southern District and for the Central District of Illinois, 
respectively.
    ``(4) Notwithstanding section 3240 of title 18, United States Code, 
any grand jury impaneled on or after the effective date of this Act [180 
days after Oct. 2, 1978] by a district court for the Central District or 
the Southern District of Illinois may inquire into and return 
indictments charging offenses against the criminal laws of the United 
States alleged to have been committed anywhere within the territory of 
the respective judicial districts as such districts were constituted 
before or after the effective date of this Act.''
