The COVID Project
Context, not an orderThis record is guidance or an announcement kept for context. It is not counted among the orders in force.
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Cook County, Illinois (County Clerk) · Illinois
- Level
- County
- Authority
- 55 ILCS 5/3-2001 et seq. (county clerk's duties); Cook County disaster proclamation of March 10, 2020 and Illinois Gubernatorial Disaster Proclamation; Governor's EO 2020-10 (Mar. 20, 2020)
- Issued
- 2020-03-22 Mar. 22, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03 (by March 22, 2020) (read as 2020-03-22)
- End
- 'until further notice'; reopening not verified (read as 2020-06-30)
- In force
- Mar. 22, 2020 to June 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureCourts and public offices
- Addressees
- the public
- filers of vital records, property-tax and election documents
- attorneys, title companies and businesses dealing with the Clerk
- Functions reached
- CT county records and vital records (in-person service closed)
- PM property-tax records and redemptions
- OP
- CB
- Character
- context
- Collection
- State motor-vehicle offices, secretaries of state and recorders AGY-ST-DMV-SOS-RECORDERS
Operative words
THE CLERK'S OFFICE IS CURRENTLY CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC.... Pursuant to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Clerk's office will be closed to the public until further notice. Please visit each of our department pages below for more information. We thank you for your patience as we do our part to help slow the spread of COVID-19.
Enforcement
Administrative closure of a county office
Notes
The Clerk's closure reached vital records, property-tax redemptions, election filings and board records. The office absorbed the Recorder on December 7, 2020.