Central District of Illinois

A U.S. district court in the Seventh Circuit, in Illinois. Its figures are federal cases and are never added to Illinois's.

People sentenced, FY2025: 218
Noncitizens, FY2025: 6%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 203
Detained, FY2025: 59.6%

Federal sentences

People sentenced in this court under the federal guidelines, by federal fiscal year (October to September), counted by CrimeDB from the Sentencing Commission's records. Dashed lines mark changes in federal sentencing law.

People sentenced, FY2002 to FY2025

FY2003: PROTECT Act, April 30, 2003: appeals courts review departures from the guidelines anew, and the Commission must cut downward departures.
FY2005: United States v. Booker, January 12, 2005: the guidelines become advisory, so FY2005 holds sentences from before and after.
FY2008: Gall and Kimbrough, December 10, 2007: judges may sentence outside the range with less reason given, including over the crack to powder ratio.
FY2010: Fair Sentencing Act, August 3, 2010: crack cocaine thresholds rise and the crack to powder ratio falls from 100 to 1 to about 18 to 1.
FY2019: First Step Act, December 21, 2018: a wider safety valve, no more stacked gun counts, and the crack changes made retroactive.
FY2024: Guideline amendments of November 1, 2023: fewer criminal history points for offenses committed under supervision, and a lower range for people with none.

Sentence type and length, FY2025

Share of people sentenced
Prison only	93%202	202
Prison and alternatives	2%5	5
Probation and alternatives	1%2	2
Probation only	4%9	9

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 60 months (mean 88) for the 207 sentenced to prison, 1 of them to life; life and anything over 470 months count as 470, as the Commission counts them.

Percent sentenced to prison, FY2002 to FY2025

Median prison term in months, FY2002 to FY2025

FY2018: From FY2018 the Commission counts a sentence of time served with no amount given as one day of prison; before, it left those out of the prison term. Counted that way, FY2017's national median prison term would be 24 months, not 27.

People sentenced by offense, FY2025

Share of people sentenced
Drug Trafficking	37%80	80
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	18%39	39
Firearms	17%36	36
Sex Abuse	8%17	17
Child Pornography	5%10	10
Money Launder	2%5	5
Robbery	2%5	5
Immigration	2%4	4
Prison Offenses	2%4	4
Tax	2%4	4
Kidnapping	1%3	3
Assault	1%2	2
Murder	1%2	2
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1%2	2
Stalking/Harassing	1%2	2
Administration of Justice	1%1	1
Food and Drug	1%1	1
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	1%1	1

All 218 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

People sentenced in the Central District of Illinois by offense, FY2018 to FY2025

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	80	95	95	77	96	130	85	80
Firearms	44	37	27	56	61	53	44	36
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	40	31	16	23	23	13	37	39
Child Pornography	24	13	18	20	32	17	16	10
Sex Abuse	4	8	8	27	39	17	22	17
Robbery	11	7	6	6	7	9	17	5
Immigration	8	15	21	4	2	2	4	4
Prison Offenses	6	2	2	2	5	3	4	4
Money Launder	3	0	1	1	7	1	7	5
Murder	1	0	13	4	0	0	0	2
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1	3	6	0	2	3	1	2
Tax	5	1	2	2	0	3	1	4
Other	5	2	2	2	2	1	1	0
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	0	7	2	3	1	0	0	1
Administration of Justice	3	1	1	1	1	2	3	1
Stalking/Harassing	1	1	0	2	1	0	3	2
Individual Rights	1	0	0	0	0	3	2	0
Assault	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	2
Kidnapping	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	3
Environmental	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0
Bribery/Corruption	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Commercialized Vice	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Food and Drug	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1
Arson	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
Drug Possession	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Extortion/Racketeering	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	241	226	227	232	279	260	249	218

By the Commission's offense type for these years (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline). Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

* A change in federal sentencing law took effect in this fiscal year (listed under the timeline).

Earlier years, under the Commission's older offense types, are in the tables at the foot of the page.

People sentenced by citizenship, FY2025

Share of people sentenced
U.S. citizen	94%206	206
Not a U.S. citizen	6%12	12
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

4 of the 218 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Black	52%114	114
White+MENA	38%83	83
Hispanic	9%19	19
Asian+NHPI	1%1	1
Race unknown	1%1	1

All 218 people sentenced. Race and Hispanic origin as each person told the probation officer. Hispanic is of any race; the other groups are not Hispanic. White+MENA includes Middle Eastern and North African people.

People sentenced by criminal history category, FY2025

People sentenced by criminal history category, FY2025
I	38%82	82
II	17%37	37
III	16%35	35
IV	7%15	15
V	8%18	18
VI	14%31	31

All 218 people sentenced. By the category the court found, I (least) to VI (most), from points for prior sentences under the guidelines.

Sentences against the guideline range, FY2025

Sentences against the guideline range, FY2025
Within the range	28%60	60
Above the range	3%7	7
Below the range, government-sponsored	23%51	51
Below the range, not government-sponsored	46%100	100

All 218 people sentenced. In the Commission's four groups. Government-sponsored: the prosecutor moved for it, for substantial assistance, early disposition, or another reason.

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

Pretrial release and detention

Defendants whose pretrial services case opened in the fiscal year, and the percent detained and never released before trial, as U.S. Courts prints them. Table H-14 counts every case, H-14A leaves out immigration cases, and H-14B, from FY2022, leaves out the cases U.S. Courts classes as illegal alien cases.

Percent detained, all cases (H-14), FY2006 to FY2025

Pretrial release and detention, FY2025

Which cases	Table	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
All cases	H-14	203	121	82	59.6%	40.4%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	192	111	81	57.8%	42.2%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	184	103	81	56.0%	44.0%

Detained: detained and never released before trial, as U.S. Courts prints it.

Source: U.S. Courts, Judicial Business Tables H-14, H-14A, and H-14B.

Every figure as a table

People sentenced in the Central District of Illinois, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	348	310	33	5	23
FY2003	373	323	47	3	33
FY2004	336	282	39	15	24
FY2005	314	275	38	1	25
FY2006	332	283	48	1	38
FY2007	391	347	43	1	32
FY2008	392	351	38	3	20
FY2009	349	314	35	0	22
FY2010	376	319	56	1	35
FY2011	360	303	56	1	44
FY2012	417	336	78	3	69
FY2013	367	287	77	3	66
FY2014	419	375	43	1	23
FY2015	329	289	39	1	26
FY2016	259	240	19	0	12
FY2017	249	217	30	2	22
FY2018	241	221	20	0	8
FY2019	226	206	19	1	15
FY2020	227	203	24	0	21
FY2021	232	223	9	0	4
FY2022	279	271	7	1	2
FY2023	260	249	11	0	2
FY2024	249	233	16	0	4
FY2025	218	206	12	0	4

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

Immigration offenses are the Commission's offense type for the year (OFFTYPE2 to FY2009, OFFTYPSB to FY2017, OFFGUIDE from FY2018).

Sentence type in the Central District of Illinois, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	Prison only	Prison and alternatives	Probation and alternatives	Probation only	Fine only	Type not known	Sentenced to prison	Life sentences
FY2002	348	298	18	11	15	0	6	92%	3
FY2003*	373	329	18	14	11	1	0	93%	7
FY2004	336	295	14	5	18	2	2	93%	6
FY2005*	314	271	14	11	17	1	0	91%	7
FY2006	332	299	13	11	9	0	0	94%	4
FY2007	391	351	18	15	7	0	0	94%	9
FY2008*	392	363	14	5	7	2	1	96%	8
FY2009	349	306	15	17	10	0	1	92%	8
FY2010*	376	349	12	2	13	0	0	96%	7
FY2011	360	338	14	5	2	1	0	98%	9
FY2012	417	382	24	6	4	1	0	97%	11
FY2013	367	343	12	4	5	3	0	97%	5
FY2014	419	383	18	8	9	1	0	96%	5
FY2015	329	291	15	18	5	0	0	93%	2
FY2016	259	233	11	7	8	0	0	94%	2
FY2017	249	231	8	5	4	1	0	96%	2
FY2018	241	222	10	3	3	3	0	96%	0
FY2019*	226	210	6	5	4	1	0	96%	1
FY2020	227	206	9	5	6	1	0	95%	1
FY2021	232	221	6	0	4	1	0	98%	1
FY2022	279	264	9	1	5	0	0	98%	0
FY2023	260	254	1	0	5	0	0	98%	0
FY2024*	249	235	6	4	4	0	0	97%	1
FY2025	218	202	5	2	9	0	0	95%	1

USSC's sentence types (SENTIMP). Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. Sentenced to prison: prison only, or prison and alternatives, of those whose type is known.

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

* A change in federal sentencing law took effect in this fiscal year (listed under the timeline).

Sentence length in the Central District of Illinois, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	80	46	342	86	55	315
FY2003*	90	60	373	97	63	347
FY2004	97	70	334	105	76	308
FY2005*	102	67	314	112	77	285
FY2006	91	60	332	97	64	311
FY2007	109	72	391	116	79	368
FY2008*	106	86	391	110	93	374
FY2009	97	64	348	106	85	317
FY2010*	100	75	376	104	80	361
FY2011	101	60	360	105	64	346
FY2012	94	48	417	98	60	394
FY2013	80	48	367	87	60	339
FY2014	84	60	419	91	65	383
FY2015	77	57	329	87	60	287
FY2016	77	60	259	87	60	230
FY2017	76	48	249	83	57	226
FY2018	83	60	241	86	62	232
FY2019*	90	70	226	94	74	216
FY2020	100	72	227	106	78	215
FY2021	94	60	232	95	63	227
FY2022	96	84	279	97	84	273
FY2023	102	91	260	103	96	255
FY2024*	93	66	249	96	75	241
FY2025	84	53	218	88	60	207

Sentence: prison and alternative confinement, with probation and fines as zero (USSC's sentence length). Prison term: prison alone, for those sentenced to prison (USSC's length of imprisonment). Life and anything over 470 months count as 470, as USSC counts them.

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

* A change in federal sentencing law took effect in this fiscal year (listed under the timeline).

FY2018: From FY2018 the Commission counts a sentence of time served with no amount given as one day of prison; before, it left those out of the prison term. Counted that way, FY2017's national median prison term would be 24 months, not 27.

People sentenced in the Central District of Illinois by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	158	184	162	131	134	173	219	162
Firearms	38	40	45	50	49	80	52	56
Fraud	31	28	33	47	40	36	24	26
Immigration	23	33	24	25	38	32	20	22
Pornography/Prostitution	8	12	10	22	16	26	21	30
Robbery	14	12	14	14	3	4	18	6
Forgery/Counterfeiting	6	7	4	3	17	14	7	17
Embezzlement	14	17	14	5	3	7	6	8
Larceny	7	15	7	6	5	5	3	3
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	5	2	4	5	7	3	8	3
Money Laundering	19	3	1	2	4	2	0	0
Racketeering/Extortion	6	1	0	0	6	2	1	1
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	3	8	1	0	0	2	2
Prison Offenses	3	4	4	0	3	0	1	1
Tax Offenses	1	4	0	0	2	1	1	6
Administration of Justice	3	1	0	2	1	2	2	0
Sexual Abuse	0	1	1	1	0	1	2	5
Assault	0	1	1	0	2	2	1	1
Drugs - Simple Possession	4	1	1	0	1	0	1	0
Arson	3	1	0	0	1	0	1	0
Civil Rights Offenses	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bribery	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
Auto Theft	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Drugs - Communication Facilities	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Offense type not known	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	348	373	336	314	332	391	392	349

By the Commission's offense type for these years (OFFTYPE2). Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

* A change in federal sentencing law took effect in this fiscal year (listed under the timeline).

People sentenced in the Central District of Illinois by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	174	140	165	146	212	144	94	83
Firearms	66	62	54	46	74	55	60	62
Immigration	35	44	69	66	23	26	12	22
Fraud	27	26	38	27	37	41	38	27
Child Pornography	29	33	30	33	26	20	29	20
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	5	4	8	10	11	13	4	9
Administration of Justice	3	7	7	10	3	3	0	5
Forgery/Counterfeiting	2	10	15	3	2	3	0	3
Larceny	4	5	1	4	6	2	6	3
Money Laundering	1	8	5	4	4	3	1	3
Embezzlement	7	3	4	5	1	2	2	0
Sexual Abuse	4	4	4	1	2	3	4	2
Tax Offenses	2	1	3	3	7	4	4	0
Prison Offenses	3	2	4	2	6	1	2	3
Robbery	5	4	1	5	3	1	0	2
Assault	2	3	5	1	2	3	2	0
Racketeering/Extortion	2	1	2	0	0	1	0	1
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	3
Bribery	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
Civil Rights Offenses	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Arson	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Murder	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
National Defense Offenses	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	376	360	417	367	419	329	259	249

By the Commission's offense type for these years (OFFTYPSB). Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

* A change in federal sentencing law took effect in this fiscal year (listed under the timeline).

People sentenced in the Central District of Illinois by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	80	37%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	39	18%
Firearms	36	17%
Sex Abuse	17	8%
Child Pornography	10	5%
Money Launder	5	2%
Robbery	5	2%
Immigration	4	2%
Prison Offenses	4	2%
Tax	4	2%
Kidnapping	3	1%
Assault	2	1%
Murder	2	1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	2	1%
Stalking/Harassing	2	1%
Administration of Justice	1	1%
Food and Drug	1	1%
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	1	1%

All 218 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline). Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

People sentenced in the Central District of Illinois by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Share
Black	114	52%
White+MENA	83	38%
Hispanic	19	9%
Asian+NHPI	1	1%
Race unknown	1	1%

All 218 people sentenced.

Hispanic is of any race; the other groups are not Hispanic. White+MENA includes Middle Eastern and North African people.

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

People sentenced in the Central District of Illinois by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	82	38%
II	37	17%
III	35	16%
IV	15	7%
V	18	8%
VI	31	14%

All 218 people sentenced.

The category the court found (XCRHISSR), I (least) to VI (most).

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

Sentences in the Central District of Illinois against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	60	28%
Above the range	7	3%
Below the range, government-sponsored	51	23%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	100	46%

All 218 people sentenced.

The Commission's four groups (SENTRNGE collapsed as its Sourcebook does).

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

Pretrial release and detention in the Central District of Illinois, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	348	226	122	64.9%	35.1%
FY2007	457	313	144	68.5%	31.5%
FY2008	360	254	106	70.6%	29.4%
FY2009	413	275	138	66.6%	33.4%
FY2010	389	265	124	68.1%	31.9%
FY2011	372	214	158	57.5%	42.5%
FY2012	517	380	137	73.5%	26.5%
FY2013	401	286	115	71.3%	28.7%
FY2014	323	209	114	64.7%	35.3%
FY2015	229	152	77	66.4%	33.6%
FY2016	232	169	63	72.8%	27.2%
FY2017	272	184	88	67.6%	32.4%
FY2018	283	200	83	70.7%	29.3%
FY2019	268	200	68	74.6%	25.4%
FY2020	301	234	67	77.7%	22.3%
FY2021	279	193	86	69.2%	30.8%
FY2022	220	170	50	77.3%	22.7%
FY2023	194	136	58	70.1%	29.9%
FY2024	187	124	63	66.3%	33.7%
FY2025	203	121	82	59.6%	40.4%

Source: U.S. Courts, Judicial Business Tables H-14, H-14A, and H-14B, as printed.

Pretrial release and detention in the Central District of Illinois, excluding immigration cases (Table H-14A)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	333	211	122	63.4%	36.6%
FY2007	449	305	144	67.9%	32.1%
FY2008	330	224	106	67.9%	32.1%
FY2009	373	235	138	63.0%	37.0%
FY2010	355	231	124	65.1%	34.9%
FY2011	351	193	158	55.0%	45.0%
FY2012	459	322	137	70.2%	29.8%
FY2013	365	250	115	68.5%	31.5%
FY2014	296	182	114	61.5%	38.5%
FY2015	217	140	77	64.5%	35.5%
FY2016	217	154	63	71.0%	29.0%
FY2017	260	173	87	66.5%	33.5%
FY2018	280	197	83	70.4%	29.6%
FY2019	248	180	68	72.6%	27.4%
FY2020	292	225	67	77.1%	22.9%
FY2021	277	191	86	69.0%	31.0%
FY2022	219	169	50	77.2%	22.8%
FY2023	192	134	58	69.8%	30.2%
FY2024	186	123	63	66.1%	33.9%
FY2025	192	111	81	57.8%	42.2%

Source: U.S. Courts, Judicial Business Tables H-14, H-14A, and H-14B, as printed.

Pretrial release and detention in the Central District of Illinois, excluding illegal alien cases (Table H-14B)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	213	163	50	76.5%	23.5%
FY2023	191	133	58	69.6%	30.4%
FY2024	176	114	62	64.8%	35.2%
FY2025	184	103	81	56.0%	44.0%

Source: U.S. Courts, Judicial Business Tables H-14, H-14A, and H-14B, as printed.