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.
Tonica is a village in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States. The population was 685 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Ottawa–Streator Micropolitan Statistical Area. Tonica is mainly farmland, with a few businesses. It has its own grade school, Tonica Grade School (K-8), with approximately 194 students enrolled.