You can find eight new jury instructions on the Circuit Court of Illinois website. Thanks for the heads up to Helen Gunnarsson, who writes the Illinois Trial Practice Update that's sent to Illinois lawyers who subscribe. (Information here.)
According to the Circuit Court of Illinois website, the new and updated instructions will appear there only until they are transferred to "bound volumes." According to one lawyer who reads this weblog, however, some previous instructions disappeared from the court's website before being transferred. He was put in a position of knowing that there was a new instruction, but not being able to find it. (As I recall the Illinois Supreme Court was closed for the weekend, so he couldn't call on the phone to ask about the problem.)
To avoid this sort of problem, you might want to print out the new instructions as a precaution and put them into the back of your instructions book.
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