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Check this page, or the News and Announcements box on the homepage, for the latest official news and announcements released by the court. You can also access archived news and announcements from this page.
Sun, 08/25/2013
The scheduled outage has ended. All Court electronic services, including CMECF and our external website, have been restored. You may resume filing new case documents at this time.
Wed, 08/21/2013
Effective August 21, 2013 the following Motion Events have been redesigned with more user-friendly text and to prevent errors that require refiling.
Motion to Allow Claim
Motion to Modify Claim
Motion to Disallow Claim
If you have any...
Tue, 08/20/2013
During the weekend of August 23, 2013 - August 25, 2013 the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse will experience significant power outage. Most, if not all, of the building will be without electrical power commencing Friday afternoon August 23 at 4:00pm. Power...
Wed, 07/10/2013
GENERAL ORDER NO. 13-1
REGARDING FLAT FEES FOR DEBTOR'S COUNSEL IN CHAPTER 13 CASES
Effective July 10, 2013
Thu, 06/27/2013
Effective June 27, 2013, we have combined the Plan and Modified Plan events for each chapter in a
single event. If you should choose the wrong option within the event, we will edit the docket and no
refiling will be required. Please note the new...
Wed, 06/26/2013
On Saturday, June 29, 2013, the court will be performing important system maintenance on the CMECF system.
A short CMECF service outage is expected from 7:00 AM CDT to approximately 8:00 AM CDT.
Mon, 06/24/2013
Effective June 24, 2013, the following Claim events have been redesigned with more user-friendly text and to prevent errors that require refiling. The appropriate sections of our ECF Procedure Manual will be modified by the end of the day.
If you...
Mon, 06/17/2013
The Court has created a new Internet Website which is compliant with a national, standard website template. This template was developed in response to feedback received from court constituents expressing that consistency in design would improve one...
Mon, 06/17/2013
The June 2013 Newsletter edition is now available for your reading pleasure.
Fri, 06/14/2013
The United States Bankruptcy Court now provides Rich Site Summary (RSS) Feeds. The Court is using RSS version 2.0, a lightweight XML format designed for sharing rapidly changing content. The RSS feeds will provide easy access to all public docket...