The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois · Illinois
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- Ill. S. Ct. R. 21(b); the court's inherent authority
- Issued
- 2020-12-14 Dec. 14, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-12-14
- End
- Continuing (program still described in 2021-2022 orders; end not verified) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Dec. 14, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Courts and public officesOther
- Addressees
- landlords and tenants
- creditors and debtors in consumer-debt cases
- the Circuit Clerk and Sheriff
- Functions reached
- SV servicing and collections (consumer-debt collection cases routed to the program)
- PM property management (eviction cases)
- CT courts and agencies
- Collection
- State courts AGY-ST-COURTS
Operative words
The Early Resolution Program (ERP) includes free legal aid, mediation services, and connections to other resources including rental assistance. Mediation is a chance for a landlord and tenant, or debtor and creditor, to resolve issues with the help of a knowledgeable and neutral person.... You are a landlord who is not represented by a lawyer; You were sued by someone who wants to collect an unpaid debt
Enforcement
General administrative order under Ill. S. Ct. R. 21(b); the order text (following the 2.7 MB of attachments) was not fully read
Notes
The operative order text sits behind multilingual attachments; the quotation is from the court's own program notice attached to the order.
Retrieval noteDowngraded from primary because the ordering paragraphs were not located in the text read (attachments precede the order); the instrument, date and subject are confirmed from the court's own orders database entry and the attached notices.