Cook County judicial wannabes may want to bookmark this one: County launches "Find My District App"

Omnia Gallia in tres partes divisa est, as Julius Caesar wrote, but the old Roman mapmakers did not have a patch on the cartographers of modern Cook County: They have managed (as FWIW readers well know) to divide all of Cook County into 20 judicial subcircuits.

Problem is, we don't yet have maps of the new subcircuits.

They're coming. They're just not here... yet.

Meanwhile, though, Cook County has launched a new, interactive map to help voters (and would-be judicial candidates) figure out all the various districts in which they live... including, obviously, their new subcircuit.

Here's the County's press release, issued yesterday:

President Preckwinkle has announced a new transparency and civic engagement initiative with the launch of “Find My District,” an interactive web map that shows a majority of the overlapping political districts of any address in Cook County, using public data provided by the County Clerk.

Visitors to the site can enter an address or point to a location on the map and find its districts as well as the district’s elected representatives and their contact information. Visitors can also use their phone or computer’s built-in GPS to find the information for their current location.

“Illinois has more units of local government than any other state in the nation,” said President Preckwinkle. “Our Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Department created this interactive map to make it easier for residents to find and contact local officials and learn about their responsibilities.”

"The Clerk's Office is pleased to partner in this new interactive initiative that will help Cook County residents identify the government offices that serve their communities and provide them with the information that they need to contact their elected officials to make inquiries, access services, and make their voices heard," said Cook County Clerk Karen A. Yarbrough.

At the County level the app covers:

• Commissioner Districts
• Board of Review Districts
• Judicial Districts [meaning subcircuits -- all of Cook County is the First "Judicial District" -- ed.]

At the local level the app covers:

• School Districts
• Fire Protection Districts
• Library Taxing Districts
• Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Districts
• Municipalities
• Wards
• Political Townships

The app also covers:

• State Senate Districts
• State Representative Districts
• Congressional Districts

At some point, this app could be very useful for judicial wannabes -- but not yet. I checked.

The app says I'm still in the 10th Subcircuit -- which I have been since the Cook County subcircuits were first created -- but, under the new map, I believe I will be in the 11th. The app doesn't say that. Yet. It will.