ILLINOIS NAME CHANGE FORMS: THE ADULT NAME CHANGE PACKAGE:
The principal forms required for an Illinois Adult Name Change are all available for download on our site. The major Illinois Name Change forms include the following:
- Notice of Filing Petition for Name Change
Information Required on This Form: date on which you will be filing the form, which must be six weeks after the date that you publish the notice in a newspaper; your present full name; the new name that you want to use; courthouse location; address of courthouse;
- Letter to Newspaper
- Petition for Name Change
Information Required on This Form: Your name, date, address, age, and new name that you want to use
- Name Change Order
WHERE TO FILE:
Where you file depends upon your residence. You will file your Illinois Name Change papers in one of the following circuit courts, which have jurisdiction over name change petitions in Illinois:
Circuit Courts in Illinois
Cook County is its own judicial circuit. The rest of the counties in Illinois fall into one of 22 circuits.
First Circuit - The counties of Alexander, Pulaski, Massac, Pope, Johnson, Union, Jackson, Williamson and Saline.
Second Circuit - The counties of Hardin, Gallatin, White, Hamilton, Franklin, Wabash, Edwards, Wayne, Jefferson, Richland, Lawrence and Crawford.
Third Circuit - The counties of Madison and Bond.
Fourth Circuit - The counties of Clinton, Marion, Clay, Fayette, Effingham, Jasper, Montgomery, Shelby and Christian.
Fifth Circuit - The counties of Vermilion, Edgar, Clark, Cumberland and Coles.
Sixth Circuit - The counties of Champaign, Douglas, Moultrie, Macon, DeWitt and Piatt.
Seventh Circuit - The counties of Sangamon, Macoupin, Morgan, Scott, Greene and Jersey.
Eighth Circuit - The counties of Adams, Schuyler, Mason, Cass, Brown, Pike, Calhoun and Menard.
Ninth Circuit - The counties of Knox, Warren, Henderson, Hancock, McDonough and Fulton.
Tenth Circuit - The counties of Peoria, Marshall, Putnam, Stark and Tazewell.
Eleventh Circuit - The counties of McLean, Livingston, Logan, Ford and Woodford.
Twelfth Circuit - The county of Will.
Thirteenth Circuit The counties of Bureau, LaSalle and Grundy.
Fourteenth Circuit - The counties of Rock Island, Mercer, Whiteside and Henry.
Fifteenth Circuit - The counties of JoDaviess, Stephenson, Carroll, Ogle and Lee.
Sixteenth Circuit - The counties of Kane, DeKalb and Kendall.
Seventeenth Circuit - The counties of Winnebago and Boone.
Eighteenth Circuit - The county of DuPage.
Nineteenth Circuit - The counties of Lake
Twentieth Circuit - The counties of Randolph, Monroe, St. Clair, Washington and Perry.
Twenty-first Circuit - The counties of Iroquois and Kankakee.
Twenty-Second Circuit- The county of McHenry
