Practicing in the Appellate Courts is for the purpose of reviewing trial court judgments to correct of errors committed by the trial court, development of the law, achieve a uniform approach across courts, and the pursuit of justice, more generally. Appellate courts are not a forum to make a new case, but instead they determine if the rulings and judgment of the court below were made correctly.
Gilson is an unincorporated community in Knox County, Illinois, and is located southeast of Galesburg. It is part of the Galesburg Micropolitan Statistical Area.