The Circuit Court of Cook County first recognized the need to make a child’s visit to court a more positive experience more than 30 years ago with the opening of the Rhoda S. Bresler Child’s Room in the now Richard J. Daley Center in April 1973.  The room was a supervised waiting area for parents with civil cases and was named in honor of the child advocate who helped to organize it. 

Since then, the program has expanded to ten (10) Children’s Rooms in court facilities throughout Cook County, though they were temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  They are:
 

• The Rhoda S. Bresler Children’s Room in the Richard J. Daley Center at 50 W. Washington St. in Chicago opened in 1973. 
• The Children’s Room in the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center at 1100 South Hamilton Avenue, opened in 1994. 
• The Children’s Room in the Mediation Center at 69 West Washington Street in Chicago, opened in 1995. 
• The K.C. Conlon Children’s Room in the Sixth Municipal District court facility in south suburban Markham, opened in 1995. 
• The Children’s Room and Children’s Advocacy Clinic in the Domestic Violence Courthouse at 1340 South Michigan Avenue, opened in 1999; relocated in 2005 to the new Domestic Violence Courthouse at 555 West Harrison Street in Chicago.
• The then Loyola Children’s Center Room at Maybrook in the Fourth Municipal District court facility in west suburban Maywood, opened in 2002.  It is presently named the Children's Room at the Maywood Courthouse. 
• The Children’s Room in the Fifth Municipal District court facility in southwest suburban Bridgeview, opened in 2010. 
• The Children’s Room in the Second Municipal District court facility in north suburban Skokie, opened 2010. 
• The Children's Room in the Leighton Criminal Court Building at 2600 S. California Avenue opened in June 2017. 
• The Children's Room in the Third Municipal District court facility in northwest suburban Rolling Meadows opened in 2017.