Effective January 1, 2025, Public Act 103-671 and Senate Bill 0688 requires the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County to collect and remit to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office five dollars ($5.00) for each party at the time of civil filings where private process service is utilized for any summons or alias summons.

These steps take you through the process of e-filing on an existing case that we have to retrieve from the Court’s system. Once the filing is sent to the court’s filing clerk for review, we’ll take a quick peek at our Filing Status screen.

Cook County made changes to the eFileIL system for the Civil, Law, Divisions 1 – 6 and Chancery Divisions starting November 29, 2021.

Attorneys that don’t practice in Illinois may need to have an out-of-state subpoena issued from time to time.

If you request a hearing date (spindle a motion) on a pending filing, and court response returns no available dates, you will need to make sure you have properly filled out the Case Cross Reference Code properly. Besides your Cook County Attorney Code, you also need to add a second Case Cross Reference Code for the Motion Type.

Cook County made changes to the eFileIL system that took effect on July 12, 2021 for their Probate, Domestic Relations, and Domestic Violence (Civil) Divisions.

When Initiating a Case in Cook County Probate Cases, filers may need to enter a Will File Date (the date the will was filed with the state). Filers may add that information in Section 1 of the filing.

A 298 Petition document type is only to be used by an indigent filer (typically a Pro Se) who is applying for or who has been granted a waiver of court filing fees.

These steps take you through the process of starting a brand new case, and shows you how to electronically serve your documents on parties and / or attorneys in the case through the use of service contacts.