Southern District of Illinois Court Records

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Search for court records online in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois (S.D. Ill.) to lookup case information on federal court cases happening in the following counties in Illinois: 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, Saline, St. Clair, Union, Wabash, Washington, Wayne, White, and Williamson. You can find and access the court dockets, court documents, transcripts, and legal data you need on the parties, attorneys, law firms, and judges involved in litigation in the Illinois Southern District.

About the Southern District of Illinois

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois has jurisdiction over thirty-eight counties in southern Illinois. In 1819, the U.S. Congress established the District of Illinois by statute, establishing one large district across Illinois. In 1855, the District was divided into a Northern and Southern District. In 1905, an Eastern District was established. However, in 1978, Illinois was reorganized into just the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts.

The Southern District currently has five United States District Judges and three United States Magistrate Judges. The Court states, “Our mission is to resolve judicial matters fairly and justly in a manner that will uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. We are committed to doing so through communication and education in order to ensure respect for the Court. We work to resolve disputes in a timely and efficient manner to promote the public’s confidence and trust in the Judiciary of the United States and to protect individual rights and liberties through law.”

The Illinois Southern District has two separate courthouse locations: the Benton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 301 West Main Street, Benton, IL 62812; and the Melvin Price Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 750 Missouri Avenue, East St. Louis, IL 62201.

The Clerk of Court is Monica A. Stump. The Clerk of Court’s Benton office can be reached by calling (618) 439-7760, while the East St. Louis office can be reached by calling (618) 482-9371. The Clerk can also be reached by emailing Monica_Stump@ilsd.uscourts.gov.

The Chief Judge is the Hon. Nancy J. Rosenstengel, located at the Melvin Price Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Courtroom 3. You can reach the Chief Judge’s Chambers by calling (618) 482-9172.

The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois is Rachelle Aud Crowe, who previously served as the state senator for the 56th District in Illinois, where she was the first woman in state history to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee. The U.S. Attorney’s Main Office is located at 9 Executive Drive, Fairview Heights, IL 62208, and can be reached by calling (618) 628-3700 or faxing (618) 628-3730. The Benton Branch Office is located at 402 West Main Street, Suite 2A, Benton, IL 62812, and can be reached by calling (618) 439-3808 or faxing (618) 439-2401. The East St. Louis Branch Office is located at 750 Missouri Avenue, 3rd Floor, East St. Louis, IL 62201, and can be reached by calling (618) 482-9361 or faxing (618) 482-9302.

Why use UniCourt to search for cases in the Southern District of Illinois?

Finding the court records you need for the Southern District of Illinois from the Public Access to Court Electronic Records, or PACER, can be expensive, difficult, and tedious.

Every day, UniCourt gathers court data for all of the new federal civil cases in the S.D. Ill. and provides you with the ability to search through all of those new case filings in our CrowdSourced Library™ free of charge. UniCourt also gives you real-time, bulk access to the entire PACER database of civil and criminal federal court data from the Illinois Southern District through our PACER API. Unlike UniCourt, PACER charges for every case search you make on their platform, even if the search terms you used do not produce any helpful search results. PACER does not limit the cost of each case search you make, meaning you could be charged incredibly high fees for searches that return a mountain of bad results.

Not only does PACER charge expensive case search fees, but PACER also charges court document fees. PACER charges 10 cents per page and claims that these fees are capped at $3, however, they can be much higher for downloading court transcripts. Additionally, PACER forces users to pay additional fees if they want to download the same document multiple times. On the other hand, if UniCourt has a document you need from the Illinois Southern District in our CrowdSourced Library™, you can download it for free as many times as you’d like without unnecessary charges.

Beyond the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, UniCourt gives you access to court records for all of the other U.S. District Courts in Illinois, including the Central District of Illinois and the Northern District of Illinois. UniCourt also provides you with bulk access to all federal court records within Illinois, such as cases filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Illinois. In addition to federal court records across the State of Illinois, UniCourt also delivers easy access to Illinois state court records for Cook County.

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Illinois Southern District Court

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750 Missouri Avenue, East St. Louis, IL 62201, USA

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