While some vestiges of Covid-19 remain, things in the judicial world have largely returned to normal. One noticeable laggard has been in-person status hearings. In the Northern District of Illinois federal court, judges are slowly transitioning to more in-person hearings for daily court calls. A review of the profile pages of the Northern District of Illinois judges reveals most jurists still prefer telephonic hearings. As of this posting, the only the following judges require parties to appear in-person for their daily court calls:
Blakey
Coleman
Daniel
Guzman
Hunt
Jenkins
Kendall
Lefkow
Lenienweber
Maldonado
Shah