official. Kroll v. Bd. of Trustees of the Univ. of Ill., 934 F.2d 904, 907 (7th Cir.1991). The Eleventh Amendment provides that, “[t]he Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.” U.S. Const, amend. XI. Under the Eleventh Amendment, each state remains a sovereign entity and may not be sued by any individual without that state’s consent. See Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida, 517 U.S. 44, 54, 116 S.Ct. 1114, 134 L.Ed.2d 252 (1996). Federal district courts lack original subject matter jurisdiction over claims barred by the Eleventh Amendment. Porter v. Illinois, 36 F.3d 684, 691 (7th Cir.1994) (<HOLDING>). Specifically, the Eleventh Amendment bars
holding that barring waiver by the state the eleventh amendment precludes federal courts from hearing state claims brought against state officials in their official capacities holding that states and state officials acting in their official capacities are not persons subject to liability under  1983 holding that neither a state nor its officials acting in their official capacities are persons under  1983 holding that an action brought against the state officials in their official capacities was not properly removed to federal court because the district court lacked jurisdiction holding that such claims however cannot be brought directly against the state or a state agency but only against state officials in their official capacities