The Kane County Courthouse in Geneva hears every residential eviction in the county. The address is 100 S. 3rd Street, Geneva, IL 60134. The eviction call sits in Courtroom 250 before Judge Todd Tarter. That covers an Aurora two-flat and a Carpentersville single family home alike. One courtroom for the whole county keeps the logistics simple. The file never bounces between district courthouses the way a suburban Cook County case can. I appear. My client usually does not.
The docket is steady and known. Kane County landlords filed 1,749 eviction cases in 2024, per the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts. All of those cases moved through this one courtroom. My office works that call every week.
The court does not publish a fixed weekly call time. The 16th Circuit publishes the courtroom and the judge. Case settings appear on the daily court-call reports, and my office checks the daily call before every appearance. Zoom appearance is available through the court's streaming directory. Every Kane County eviction summons also comes with the court's Notice of Mediation for the Kane County Eviction Mediation Program.
Civil e-filing is mandatory statewide under the Illinois Supreme Court's eFileIL order. The Kane County local rules require the summons to be placed with the Circuit Clerk at e-filing. The Clerk sets the return date.
After judgment, the Kane County Sheriff executes the eviction order. The sheriff charges $150 for the first hour of the eviction and bills $150 per hour after that. The landlord supplies the moving crew and the locksmith. The sheriff also serves the summons for $75 per defendant plus $1 per mile by ZIP code. Typical service totals run $78 to $99. The Sheriff's posted fee schedule dates from March 2022 and remains the current version on the Sheriff's site.
One deadline comes from the statute, whatever the sheriff's calendar looks like. Under 735 ILCS 5/9-117, the sheriff cannot enforce an eviction order more than 120 days after entry. The court can extend that deadline on the plaintiff's motion. Do not sit on your judgment. The eviction order can expire under you.
One trap catches Kane County investors. If the building is titled to an LLC, the company cannot file or appear in court without a lawyer. 705 ILCS 220/1 bars a corporation from appearing pro se. Pro se means without counsel. The Illinois Supreme Court confirmed the rule in Downtown Disposal Services, Inc. v. City of Chicago, 2012 IL 112040. The court will bounce an LLC eviction filed without counsel. I explain the rule in plain terms on my page about LLC court representation in Illinois.
My flat fee map covers the neighboring counties too. Kane is $995, and DuPage County next door is $895. Suburban Cook runs by municipal district. I break that down on my suburban Cook eviction page. The statewide schedule lives on my flat fee eviction lawyer page. Do you want to start with paper instead of a phone call? The free 5-day, 10-day, and 30-day notice forms are on my eviction resources page.
