Moultrie County Circuit Court

City: Sullivan

County: Moultrie

State: Illinois

Upon Moultrie County's creation in 1843, the Illinois General Assembly placed it in the Eighth Judicial Circuit. It remained in the Eighth Judicial Circuit until 1853, when the General Assembly placed Moultrie County in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit. It remained in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit until well after the Civil War.

"An Act to Change the Time of Holding Courts in the County of Shelby, and for Other Purposes," 21 February 1845, Laws of Illinois (1845), 48; "An Act to Establish the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, and to Fix the Time of Holding Courts in Said Circuit," 12 February 1853, General Laws of Illinois (1853), 61-62.