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Illinois has 102 Counties

There are 17 counties with no township government but are divided into precincts:

Alexander, Calhoun, Edwards, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Menard, Monroe, Morgan, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Scott, Union, Wabash, and Williamson.

County Name Date of
Formation
Parent County County Seat Townships County Coordinators
Adams 1825 Pike Quincy Map Dennis Partridge
Alexander 1819 Union Cairo   Deborah Cox
Bond 1818 Madison Greenville Map Norma Hass
Boone 1836 Winnebago Belvidere Map ADOPTABLE
Brown 1837 Schuyler Mount Sterling Map Dennis Partridge
Bureau 1837 Putnam Princeton Map ADOPTABLE
Calhoun 1825 Pike Hardin   Norma Hass
Carroll 1839 Jo Daviess Mount Carroll Map ADOPTABLE
Cass 1837 Morgan Virginia Map Rebecca Maloney
Champaign 1833 Vermilion Urbana Map ADOPTABLE
Christian 1839 Dane (Montgomery, Sangamon, Shelby) Taylorville Map Morgan Edward Johnson
Clark 1819 Crawford Marshall Map ADOPTABLE
Clay 1824 Crawford, Fayette, Wayne Louisville Map Sandy Bauer
Clinton 1824 Bond, Washington Carlyle Map Larry Jones
Coles 1830 Clark, Edgar Charleston Map ADOPTABLE
Cook 1831 Putnam Chicago Map Lu Ann Pilar
Crawford 1816 * Edwards (IT) Robinson Map Mary Kozy
Cumberland 1843 Coles Toledo Map Michael L. Hebert
DeKalb 1837 Kane Sycamore Map ADOPTABLE
DeWitt 1839 Macon, McLean Clinton Map Cheryl Rothwell
Douglas 1859 Coles Tuscola Map ADOPTABLE
DuPage 1839 Cook Wheaton Map ADOPTABLE
Edgar 1823 Clark Paris Map ADOPTABLE
Edwards 1814* Gallatin, Madison (IT) Albion   ADOPTABLE
Effingham 1831 Crawford, Fayette Effingham Map ADOPTABLE
Fayette 1821 Bond, Clark, Crawford, Jefferson Vandalia Map Penny Lewis
Ford 1859 unorganized (Vermilion) Paxton Map ADOPTABLE
Franklin 1818* Gallatin, White Benton Map Sandy Bauer
Fulton 1823 Pike Lewistown Map ADOPTABLE
Gallatin 1812* Randolph (IT) Shawneetown Map ADOPTABLE
Greene 1821 Madison Carrollton Map ADOPTABLE
Grundy 1841 LaSalle Morris Map Dennis Partridge
Hamilton 1821 White McLeansboro Map Michael L. Hebert
Hancock 1825 Pike Carthage Map ADOPTABLE
Hardin 1839 Gallatin, Pope Elizabethtown   Sandy Bauer
Henderson 1841 Warren Oquawka Map ADOPTABLE
Henry 1825 unorganized (Fulton) Cambridge Map ADOPTABLE
Iroquois 1833 unorganized (Vermilion) Watseka Map Concetta Phillipps
Jackson 1816* Johnson, Randolph Murphysboro Map Melissa McCord
Jasper 1831 Clay, Crawford Newton Map ADOPTABLE
Jefferson 1819 Edwards, White Mt. Vernon Map Sandy Bauer
Jersey 1839 Greene Jerseyville Map Dennis Partridge
JoDaviess 1827 Henry, Putnam Galena Map Andy Willis
Johnson 1812* Randolph (IT) Vienna   ADOPTABLE
Kane 1836 unorganized (LaSalle), Cook Geneva Map ADOPTABLE
Kankakee 1853 Ford, Iroquois, Will Kankakee Map ADOPTABLE
Kendall 1841 LaSalle, Kane Yorkville Map ADOPTABLE
Knox 1825 unorganized (Fulton), Fulton, Henry Galesburg Map ADOPTABLE
Lake 1839 McHenry Waukegan Map ADOPTABLE
LaSalle 1831 Putnam, unorganized (Tazewell) Ottawa Map Norma Hass
Lawrence 1821 Crawford, Edwards Lawrenceville Map Mary Kozy
Lee 1839 Ogle Dixon Map ADOPTABLE
Livingston 1837 LaSalle, McLean, unorganized (Vermilion?) Pontiac Map ADOPTABLE
Logan 1839 McLean, Sangamon, Tazewell Lincoln Map Cheryl Rothwell
Macon 1829 unorganized (Shelby) Decatur Map Cheryl Rothwell
Macoupin 1829 unorganized (Greene), Madison Carlinville Map Norma Hass
Madison 1812* St. Clair (IT) Edwardsville Map Bev Bauser
Marion 1823 Fayette, Jefferson Salem Map Sandy Bauer
Marshall 1839 Putnam, LaSalle Lacon Map Norma Hass
Mason 1841 Menard, Tazewell Havana Map ADOPTABLE
Massac 1843 Johnson, Pope Metropolis   ADOPTABLE
McDonough 1826 Schuyler Macomb Map ADOPTABLE
McHenry 1836 Cook, unorganized (LaSalle) Woodstock Map ADOPTABLE
McLean 1830 Tazewell, unorganized (Tazewell) Bloomington Map ADOPTABLE
Menard 1839 Sangamon Petersburg   Cheryl Rothwell
Mercer 1825 unorganized (Pike) Aledo Map ADOPTABLE
Monroe 1816* Randolph, St. Clair Waterloo   Carol Smith
Montgomery 1821 Bond, Madison Hillsboro Map Carrie "Kay" Wilson
Morgan 1823 unorganized (Greene), Sangamon Jacksonville   Dennis Partridge
Moultrie 1843 Macon, Shelby Sullivan Map ADOPTABLE
Ogle 1836 Jo Daviess, unorganized (LaSalle) Oregon Map Roger Cramer
Peoria 1825 Fulton, unorganized (Fulton) Peoria Map ADOPTABLE
Perry 1827 Jackson, Randolph Pickneyville   ADOPTABLE
Piatt 1841 DeWitt, Macon Monticello Map Dee Lund
Pike 1821 Madison Pittsfield Map ADOPTABLE
Pope 1816* Gallatin, Johnson Golconda   Sandy Bauer
Pulaski 1843 Alexander, Johnson Mound City   Deborah Cox
Putnam 1825 unorganized (Edgar, Fulton) Hennepin Map Norma Hass
Randolph 1795* St. Clair, Northwest Territory Chester   Dennis Partridge
Richland 1841 Clay, Lawrence Olney Map Norma Hass
Rock Island 1831 Jo Daviess Rock Island Map ADOPTABLE
Saline 1847 Gallatin Harrisburg Map ADOPTABLE
Sangamon 1821 Bond, Madison Springfield Map Cheryl Rothwell
Schuyler 1825 Pike, unorganized (Pike) Rushville Map Dennis Partridge
Scott 1839 Morgan Winchester   ADOPTABLE
Shelby 1827 Fayette Shelbyville Map ADOPTABLE
Stark 1839 Knox, Putnam Toulon Map ADOPTABLE
St. Clair 1790* Northwest Territory Belleville Map ADOPTABLE
Stephenson 1837 Jo Daviess, Winnebago Freeport Map ADOPTABLE
Tazewell 1827 unorganized (Peoria), Fayette Pekin Map ADOPTABLE
Union 1818 * Johnson, Jackson Jonesboro   Melissa McCord
Vermilion 1826 unorganized (Edgar) Danville Map ADOPTABLE
Wabash 1824 Edwards Mount Carmel   ADOPTABLE
Warren 1825 unorganized (Pike) Monmouth Map ADOPTABLE
Washington 1818* St. Clair Nashville Map ADOPTABLE
Wayne 1819 Edwards Fairfield Map Sandy Bauer
White 1815* Madison (IT) Carmi Map Cindy Birk-Conley
Whiteside 1836 Jo Daviess, Henry Morrison Map ADOPTABLE
Will 1836 Cook, Iroquois Joliet Map Dennis Partridge
Williamson 1839 Franklin Marion   ADOPTABLE
Winnebago 1836 JoDaviess, unorganized (LaSalle) Rockford Map ADOPTABLE
Woodford 1841 McLean, Tazewell Eureka Map ADOPTABLE
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DEFINITIONS: *county formed before Illinois became a state
(IT) Illinois Territory

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