Ill. R. Cir. Ct. Dupage Cnty. 6.07
Motions to consolidate two or more cases shall be presented to the judge who is requested to receive and hear the consolidated case after notice to all parties of record in all cases involved in the proposed consolidation. On all documents to be presented to the Court, the captions of all involved cases shall appear with the case which is proposed to be consolidated appearing above and the receiving case below.
If all cases proposed for consolidation are within the same division of the Court and are of the same designation, the motion shall be presented to the judge to whom the oldest case is assigned. If the cases are within the same division but are of different designations, the motion shall be presented to the judge who is assigned to the case with the "higher" designation, determined according to the following hierarchy, in descending order:
If the cases to be consolidated are in different divisions, the moving party shall first present a Motion to Transfer for Purposes of Consolidation to the judge assigned to the case which is proposed to be consolidated and if that motion is granted then the Motion to Consolidate shall be presented to the judge assigned to the "receiving" case.
Once a motion to consolidate has been granted, and for as long as the consolidation is in effect, all court documents concerning said cases shall bear the captions of all consolidated cases with the principal case's caption at the bottom and the transferred case's caption at the top.
It shall be grounds to deny a Motion to Consolidate that at the time of presentation of the motion there are case dispositive motions pending in any case which is proposed to be transferred or consolidated into another.
Ill. R. Cir. Ct. Dupage Cnty. 6.07