Yesterday Cook County Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans entered General Administrative Order No. 2020-7, an order which, by its terms supersedes the latest (October 17) updates to G.A.O. 2020-02.
The Circuit Court is responding to the current surge in COVID-19 cases by allowing all court business, "except in extraordinary or compelling circumstances," when not otherwise prohibited by "the limitations imposed by the constitutions of the United States and the State of Illinois," to be conducted by videoconference.
Paragraph 1.a.v. provides specifically that, "No bench trials in criminal cases and no jury trials of any kind shall be held until further order of the court. When jury trials resume, the judge presiding shall schedule jury trials not less than 60 days after the date on which the parties are notified of the trial date."