The public may call with a touchtone telephone 24 hours per day, 365 days per year to obtain the most requested information about filed cases in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. The Multi-Court Voice Case Information System (McVCIS) accepts touch-tone input from users and responds with prompts and information in either English or Spanish.

Easy Searching

1. Dial (618) 482-9371 
2. Select Option 2
3. Select language - 1 for English or 2 for Spanish.
4. Select the court you would like to access. Press 452 for the Southern District of Illinois.
5. Choose what type of proceeding you want to access - 2 for civil (including Multidistrict Litigation) or 3 for criminal (including Magistrate Judge cases).

When searching by case number, the service asks for the 7-digit case number, which is the 2-digit year and 5-digit case number. Do not include the office code, which is the leading digit before the year. If a case number has fewer than 5 digits, be sure to include leading zeros.

For example:

1. For case number: 8:25-cv-00585, enter 2500585
2. For case number: 1:23-cr-12, enter 2300012

For additional information about a current case, you may call the Court at:

        Benton - (618) 439-7760
        East St. Louis - (618) 482-9371

or access the CM/ECF system. A PACER account is required to access case information in the CM/ECF database, and PACER fees apply. For more information on PACER, click here.
 

Detailed instructions for using the Multi-Court Voice Information System can be found in the
McVCIS User Guide.