MASTERS IN CHANCERY OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY. Sigmund Zeisler, appointed by Judge Walker. Granville W. Browning, appointed by Judge Honore. Albert W. Brickwood, appointed by Judge Scanlan. COOK COUNTY COURT. Judge of the County Court-THOMAS F. SCULLY. Jury Commission. Commissioners-William A. Amberg, President; Joseph H. Barnett, Secretary; Otto Pampel. Assistant Chief Deputy Clerk, Civil Department-Robert W. McKinlay. Assistant Chief Deputy Clerk, Criminal Department-Charles H. Krimbill. Bailiff's Office Bailiff-ANTON J. CERMAK. Chief Deputy Bailiff-George H. Woods. Antiquity of Bailiffs. William Fitz Stephen, noting the state of London city in the time of King Henry II, "hath these words,'' words quoted by John Stow in his "The Survey of London," first published in 1618: "And now for the name of bailiff. In the first year of King Richard I, the citizens of London obtained to be governed by two bailiffs, which bailiffs are in divers ancient deeds called sheriffs, according to the speech of law, which called the shire Balliver, for that they, like the portgraves, used the same office of shrievewicke, for which the city paid to fee farm three hundred pounds yearly, as before, since the reign of Henry I, which also is yet paid by the city into the Exchequer unto this day. "The names of the first bailiffs, entering into their office at the feast of St. Michael the Archangel, in the year of Christ 1189, were named Henry Cornhill and Richard Reynere, bailiffs." JUVENILE COURT. Judge-MERRITT W. PINCKNEY. Assistant Judge-Mary M. Bartelme. Police Sergeant in Charge-Martin F. Rogers. Director Juvenile Psychopathic Institute-Dr. William Healy. The Circuit Court Judges choose one of their own number each year to do the work of the Juvenile Court. Judge Pinckney has been selected for five successive years. The Juvenile Court has jurisdiction over all dependent and delinquent boys under seventeen years of age and all dependent and delinquent girls under eighteen years of age. No matter what the charge is against the child, the case must first be heard in the Juvenile Court. If it is deemed advisable, a delinquent boy or girl may be held over for the grand jury, but this was done only six times last year. The Juvenile Court also commits truants to the Parental School or places them on probation. Children brought before this court may either be placed on probation, committed to institutions or placed in families other than their own. The work of the court is growing each year so that in the fiscal year from December 1, 1912, to December 1, 1913, there were 4,695 dependent and delinquent children brought before the court. In order to properly handle these cases seventy-six county probation officers and forty-nine police officers are detailed to juvenile duty in the different police precincts and for the various dependent and delinquent institutions. DOMESTIC RELATIONS COURT. Judge SHERIDAN O. FRY. State's Attorney-Eugene C. O'Reilly. Warrant Clerk-Draper Allen. Social Secretaries-Carolyn Grimley and Elizabeth Moriarity. The Domestic Relations Court is a branch of the Municipal Court, and was established on April 3, 1911. The following classes of cases are heard in this court: Wife and child abandonment, parents' failure to support children, contributing to the delinquency of children, actions in bastardy, violation of the truancy laws and selling liquor to minors. MUNICIPAL COURT DISTRICTS. The city is, for convenience, divided into two districts. The First District comprises practically all that part of the city north of Seventy-first street and west of Cottage Grove avenue; the Second District comprises that part of the city south of Seventy-first street and east of Cottage Grove avenue. First District-In the First District are located twenty-four branch civil courts on the 8th, 9th and 11th floors of the City Hall. In these civil branches, nine of the judges hear jury cases. Judges from other counties sit from time to time in the civil branches of the court, trying both jury and non-jury cases. There are fourteen criminal branches of the court in the First District, presided over by ten judges, located as follows: Criminal Court Building .625 S. Clark street .120 N. Desplaines street Morgan and Maxwell streets 5233 Lake avenue .1123 West Chicago avenue 2138 N. California avenue .113 West Chicago avenue 2742 Sheffield avenue .6347 Wentworth avenue .740 W. Thirty-fifth street .806 City Hall ..902 City Hall Domestic Relations Branch.... Second District-In the Second District, one branch court disposes of both civil and criminal litigation in the district. It is located at No. 8855-7 Exchange avenue. Jury trials are held in the Second District as necessity demands. The Municipal Court of Chicago has jurisdiction in all actions when the amount claimed by the plaintiff exceeds $1,000; all actions for the recovery of personal property the value of which exceeds $1,000; all actions for the recovery of damages for the conversion of personal property when the amount sought to be recovered exceeds $1,000. In criminal cases of the grade of felony, except treason and murder, and cases of habeas corpus. In criminal cases below the grade of felony, except habeas corpus cases. In civil actions for the recovery of money only when the amount does not exceed $1,000; actions for the recovery of personal property valued at less than $1,000; actions of forcible retainer; actions and proceedings over which justices of the peace have jurisdiction and actions not otherwise provided for by the act creating the Municipal Court. In quasi-criminal actions. In proceedings for the prevention of crime; for the arrest, examination and commitment of persons charged with criminal offenses; and proceedings involving use of search warrants. Since the original laying out of the Town of Chicago, which four years later became the City of Chicago, there have been sixteen extensions of territory. Beginning with 10.635 square miles, the growth in this wise has carried the figures up until the City has 194.415 square miles, as is shown by the following table: Original Town and City of Chicago in square miles.. 1. Extension-February 16, 1847. 2. Extension-February 12, 1853. 3. Extension-February 13, 1863. 4. Extension-February 27, 1869. 5. Extension-May 16, 1887.. 6. Extension-April 29, 1889. 7. Extension-June 29, 1889. 8. Extension-April 1, 1890. 9. Extension-May 12, 1890.. 10. Extension-November 4, 1890. 11. Extension-April 7, 1891.. 12. Extension-April 4, 1893. 13. Extension-November 7, 1893. 14. Extension-February 25, 1895. 15. Extension-April 4, 1899.. 16. Extension-April 22, 1914 (Morgan Park). 10.635 3.375 3.988 6.284 11.380 1.000 7.150 .126.070 1.773 2.899 4.603 .981 3.875 2.125 1.000 3.500 3.125 194.415 The Latest Extension. Law Department, Chicago, February 15, 1915. Hon. Francis D. Connery, City Clerk: Dear Sir-By the passage of an ordinance on February 8, 1915, annexing a part of the City of Evanston, the following described territory has become a part of the City of Chicago: "All that part of the City of Evanston, County of Cook, State of Illinois, lying east of the east line of the original right-of-way of the Chicago, Evanston and Lake Superior Railway Company and south of the south boundary line of Calvary Cemetery and said south boundary line produced east to the east boundary line of said City of Evanston." Under the law the annexation became effective as of the date of passage, the Mayor having signed the annexation ordinance immediately after it was passed. Yours truly, Approved: (Signed) LEON HORNSTEIN, Assistant Corporation Counsel. (Signed) JOHN W. BECKWITH, Corporation Counsel. This annexation embraces sixty acres, or about one-eleventh of a square mile. Population of Chicago from Its Incorporation as a City. |