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other half are more or less split up but that is their
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system. But there is one brilliant fact in these systems
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of probate jurisdiction. Almost without exception the
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large cities of this country have their own separate
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probate court, although in many of these states you will
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find in the counties there are no separate probate courts.
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If you will examine further, you will find that the reason
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for this is that there is not enough business due to the
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population for a separate probate court. Therein lies
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some explanation of why in the majority of the large
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cities of this country, in spite of reformation and
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even in Illinois, Cook County, in which the City of
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Chicago is located, under its very recent judicial
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reformation has preserved a separate and a distinct probate
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court.
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In all the counties cf Illinois other than
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Cook County probate judges are now judges of the Circuit
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Court by virtue of the new judicial article to the
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Constitution of Illinois which became effective the 1st
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of January, 1964. Outside the City of Chicago, the
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probate functions have been assumed by the Circuit Courts.
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