A state appeals panel ruled the Cook County court system, not the Illinois Court of Claims, has jurisdiction to hear a student’s allegation that a professor battered her on a public university campus.The 1st District Appellate Court found a suit against Chicago State University and its employee was improperly dismissed.In an eight-page opinion, Justice Thomas E. Hoffman wrote that although the defendant professor Donald Winter is an employee of a state institution and state actors generally can’t be sued in circuit …