<PAGE>   1

      As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 15, 1998
                                                   Registration Number 333-_____

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

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                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      Under
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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                            CHICAGO TITLE CORPORATION
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

               Delaware
            (State or other
            jurisdiction of                           36-4217886
             incorporation                         (I.R.S. Employer
           or organization)                     Identification Number)

        171 North Clark Street
           Chicago, Illinois
    (Address of Principal Executive                   60601-3294
               Offices)                               (Zip Code)

             CHICAGO TITLE CORPORATION 1998 LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN
                            (Full Title of the Plan)

                            Paul T. Sands, Jr., Esq.
                            Chicago Title Corporation
                             171 North Clark Street
                          Chicago, Illinois 60601-3294
                                 (312) 223-2000
            (Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

                               ------------------

                                   Copies to:
                             Aileen C. Meehan, Esq.
                              Dewey Ballantine LLP
                           1301 Avenue of the Americas
                          New York, New York 10019-6092
                                 (212) 259-8000

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<PAGE>   2

                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
================================================================================
                                    Proposed
                                    Maximum        Proposed         
    Title Of                        Offering       Maximum            Amount Of
 Securities To    Amount To Be      Price Per      Aggregate        Registration
 Be Registered     Registered       Unit (1)   Offering Price (1)        Fee
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>                 <C>               <C>        <C>                <C>       
Common Stock,
   par value
   $1.00 per
   share            2,230,000         $49        $109,270,000       $32,234.65
================================================================================
</TABLE>

(1) Estimated for the sole purpose of computing the registration fee. Pursuant
    to Rules 457(c) and 457(h) under the Securities Act, the proposed maximum
    offering price per unit is calculated as the average of the high and low
    prices, reported by the New York Stock Exchange, Inc., of the common stock
    of the registrant as of June 10, 1998.
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                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

            The following document filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission by Chicago Title Corporation ("Chicago Title") (File No. 1-13995) is
incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof:

      Chicago Title's Registration Statement on Form 10, as amended, filed
      pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
      (the "Exchange Act"), including the description of the Common Stock of
      Chicago Title contained in such Registration Statement on Form 10; such
      description is qualified in its entirety by reference to the (i)
      Certificate of Incorporation of Chicago Title and (ii) By-Laws of Chicago
      Title, filed as Exhibits 3.1 and 3.2, respectively, to this Registration
      Statement, and any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating
      that description.

            All documents filed by Chicago Title pursuant to Sections 13(a),
13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of this
Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment
which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters
all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by
reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of
filing of such documents.

            The consolidated financial statements of Chicago Title and Trust
Company ("CT&T") and its subsidiaries included in Chicago Title's Registration
Statement on Form 10 have been incorporated herein by reference in reliance upon
the report, also incorporated herein by reference, of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP,
independent certified public accountants, given on their authority as experts in
auditing and accounting.

ITEM 4. Description of Securities.

            Not Applicable.

ITEM 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

            Not Applicable.

ITEM 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

            Chicago Title is a Delaware corporation. Reference is made to
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law as to indemnification by
Chicago Title of its officers and directors. The general effect of such law is
to empower a corporation to indemnify any of its officers and directors against
certain expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid
in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the person to be indemnified
in connection with certain actions, suits or proceedings (threatened, pending or
completed) if the 


                                      II-1
<PAGE>   4

person to be indemnified acted in good faith and in a manner he or she
reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the
corporation and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no
reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful.

            Article Ninth of Chicago Title's Certificate of Incorporation (which
Certificate of Incorporation is incorporated by reference as Exhibit 3.1 to this
Registration Statement), provides for the indemnification of Chicago Title's
officers and directors in accordance with the Delaware General Corporation Law,
and includes, as permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, certain
limitations on the potential personal liability of members of Chicago Title's
Board of Directors for monetary damages as a result of actions taken in their
capacity as Board members.

            The directors and officers of Chicago Title are covered by insurance
policies indemnifying them against certain liabilities arising under the
Securities Act, which might be incurred by them in such capacities.

ITEM 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

            Not applicable.

ITEM 8. Exhibits.

            The documents listed hereunder are filed as exhibits hereto.

Exhibit Number          Description
--------------          -----------

      3.1               Certificate of Incorporation of Chicago Title, as filed
                        with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on
                        March 26, 1998, filed as Exhibit 3.1 to Chicago Title's
                        Registration Statement on Form 10, is incorporated
                        herein by reference.

      3.2               By-Laws of Chicago Title, filed as Exhibit 3.2 to
                        Chicago Title's Registration Statement on Form 10, are
                        incorporated herein by reference.

      5                 Opinion and Consent of Dewey Ballantine LLP.

      23.1              Consent of Dewey Ballantine LLP (included in Exhibit 5
                        hereto).

      23.2              Consent of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP.

      99                Chicago Title Corporation 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan.


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<PAGE>   5

ITEM 9. Undertakings.

      (a)   The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

            (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:

                  (i) to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of
      the Securities Act of 1933;

                  (ii) to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising
      after the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent
      post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate,
      represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the
      Registration Statement; and 

                  (iii) to include any material information with respect to the
      plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration
      Statement or any material change to such information in the Registration
      Statement;

provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the
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information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the
Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement.

            (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be
a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

            (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
termination of the offering. 

      (b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in this
Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered herein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

      (c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a 


                                      II-3
<PAGE>   6

director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful
defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer
or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the
registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been
settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction
the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as
expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such
issue.


                                      II-4
<PAGE>   7

                                   SIGNATURES

            Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of New York, State of New York, on the 15th day of June,
1998.

                                    CHICAGO TITLE CORPORATION


                                    By:    /s/ Peter R. Sismondo
                                       ----------------------------------
                                               Peter R. Sismondo
                                            President and Secretary

            Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.


Date: June 15, 1998                     By:   /s/ John J. Burns, Jr.
                                           ------------------------------
                                                  John J. Burns, Jr.
                                                       Director


Date: June 15, 1998                     By:     /s/ Robert M. Hart
                                           ------------------------------
                                                    Robert M. Hart
                                                       Director


Date: June 15, 1998                     By:     /s/ Peter R. Sismondo
                                           ------------------------------
                                                    Peter R. Sismondo
                                           Director, President and Secretary
                                             (Principal executive officer,
                                              principal financial officer
                                           and principal accounting officer)
<PAGE>   8

                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS

Exhibit Number          Description
--------------          -----------

      3.1               Certificate of Incorporation of Chicago Title, as filed
                        with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on
                        March 26, 1998, filed as Exhibit 3.1 to Chicago Title's
                        Registration Statement on Form 10, is incorporated
                        herein by reference.

      3.2               By-Laws of Chicago Title, filed as Exhibit 3.2 to
                        Chicago Title's Registration Statement on Form 10, are
                        incorporated herein by reference.

      5                 Opinion and Consent of Dewey Ballantine LLP.

      23.1              Consent of Dewey Ballantine LLP (included in Exhibit 5
                        hereto).

      23.2              Consent of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP.

      99                Chicago Title Corporation 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan.
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1

      As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 15, 1998
                                                   Registration Number 333-_____

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                               ------------------

                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      Under
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                               ------------------

                            CHICAGO TITLE CORPORATION
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

               Delaware
            (State or other
            jurisdiction of                           36-4217886
             incorporation                         (I.R.S. Employer
           or organization)                     Identification Number)

        171 North Clark Street
           Chicago, Illinois
    (Address of Principal Executive                   60601-3294
               Offices)                               (Zip Code)

             CHICAGO TITLE CORPORATION 1998 LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN
                            (Full Title of the Plan)

                            Paul T. Sands, Jr., Esq.
                            Chicago Title Corporation
                             171 North Clark Street
                          Chicago, Illinois 60601-3294
                                 (312) 223-2000
            (Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

                               ------------------

                                   Copies to:
                             Aileen C. Meehan, Esq.
                              Dewey Ballantine LLP
                           1301 Avenue of the Americas
                          New York, New York 10019-6092
                                 (212) 259-8000

                               ------------------
2

                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
================================================================================
                                    Proposed
                                    Maximum        Proposed         
    Title Of                        Offering       Maximum            Amount Of
 Securities To    Amount To Be      Price Per      Aggregate        Registration
 Be Registered     Registered       Unit (1)   Offering Price (1)        Fee
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Stock,
   par value
   $1.00 per
   share            2,230,000         $49        $109,270,000       $32,234.65
================================================================================
(1) Estimated for the sole purpose of computing the registration fee. Pursuant
    to Rules 457(c) and 457(h) under the Securities Act, the proposed maximum
    offering price per unit is calculated as the average of the high and low
    prices, reported by the New York Stock Exchange, Inc., of the common stock
    of the registrant as of June 10, 1998.
3

                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

            The following document filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission by Chicago Title Corporation ("Chicago Title") (File No. 1-13995) is
incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof:

      Chicago Title's Registration Statement on Form 10, as amended, filed
      pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
      (the "Exchange Act"), including the description of the Common Stock of
      Chicago Title contained in such Registration Statement on Form 10; such
      description is qualified in its entirety by reference to the (i)
      Certificate of Incorporation of Chicago Title and (ii) By-Laws of Chicago
      Title, filed as Exhibits 3.1 and 3.2, respectively, to this Registration
      Statement, and any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating
      that description.

            All documents filed by Chicago Title pursuant to Sections 13(a),
13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of this
Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment
which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters
all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by
reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of
filing of such documents.

            The consolidated financial statements of Chicago Title and Trust
Company ("CT&T") and its subsidiaries included in Chicago Title's Registration
Statement on Form 10 have been incorporated herein by reference in reliance upon
the report, also incorporated herein by reference, of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP,
independent certified public accountants, given on their authority as experts in
auditing and accounting.

ITEM 4. Description of Securities.

            Not Applicable.

ITEM 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

            Not Applicable.

ITEM 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

            Chicago Title is a Delaware corporation. Reference is made to
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law as to indemnification by
Chicago Title of its officers and directors. The general effect of such law is
to empower a corporation to indemnify any of its officers and directors against
certain expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid
in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the person to be indemnified
in connection with certain actions, suits or proceedings (threatened, pending or
completed) if the 

                                      II-1
4

person to be indemnified acted in good faith and in a manner he or she
reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the
corporation and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no
reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful.

            Article Ninth of Chicago Title's Certificate of Incorporation (which
Certificate of Incorporation is incorporated by reference as Exhibit 3.1 to this
Registration Statement), provides for the indemnification of Chicago Title's
officers and directors in accordance with the Delaware General Corporation Law,
and includes, as permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, certain
limitations on the potential personal liability of members of Chicago Title's
Board of Directors for monetary damages as a result of actions taken in their
capacity as Board members.

            The directors and officers of Chicago Title are covered by insurance
policies indemnifying them against certain liabilities arising under the
Securities Act, which might be incurred by them in such capacities.

ITEM 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

            Not applicable.

ITEM 8. Exhibits.

            The documents listed hereunder are filed as exhibits hereto.

Exhibit Number          Description
--------------          -----------

      3.1               Certificate of Incorporation of Chicago Title, as filed
                        with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on
                        March 26, 1998, filed as Exhibit 3.1 to Chicago Title's
                        Registration Statement on Form 10, is incorporated
                        herein by reference.

      3.2               By-Laws of Chicago Title, filed as Exhibit 3.2 to
                        Chicago Title's Registration Statement on Form 10, are
                        incorporated herein by reference.

      5                 Opinion and Consent of Dewey Ballantine LLP.

      23.1              Consent of Dewey Ballantine LLP (included in Exhibit 5
                        hereto).

      23.2              Consent of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP.

      99                Chicago Title Corporation 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan.

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5

ITEM 9. Undertakings.

      (a)   The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

            (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:

                  (i) to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of
      the Securities Act of 1933;

                  (ii) to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising
      after the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent
      post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate,
      represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the
      Registration Statement; and 

                  (iii) to include any material information with respect to the
      plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration
      Statement or any material change to such information in the Registration
      Statement;

provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the
--------  -------
information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the
Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement.

            (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be
a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

            (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
termination of the offering. 

      (b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in this
Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered herein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

      (c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a 

                                      II-3
6

director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful
defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer
or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the
registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been
settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction
the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as
expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such
issue.

                                      II-4
7

                                   SIGNATURES

            Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of New York, State of New York, on the 15th day of June,
1998.

                                    CHICAGO TITLE CORPORATION

                                    By:    /s/ Peter R. Sismondo
                                       ----------------------------------
                                               Peter R. Sismondo
                                            President and Secretary

            Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.

Date: June 15, 1998                     By:   /s/ John J. Burns, Jr.
                                           ------------------------------
                                                  John J. Burns, Jr.
                                                       Director

Date: June 15, 1998                     By:     /s/ Robert M. Hart
                                           ------------------------------
                                                    Robert M. Hart
                                                       Director

Date: June 15, 1998                     By:     /s/ Peter R. Sismondo
                                           ------------------------------
                                                    Peter R. Sismondo
                                           Director, President and Secretary
                                             (Principal executive officer,
                                              principal financial officer
                                           and principal accounting officer)
8

                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS

Exhibit Number          Description
--------------          -----------

      3.1               Certificate of Incorporation of Chicago Title, as filed
                        with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on
                        March 26, 1998, filed as Exhibit 3.1 to Chicago Title's
                        Registration Statement on Form 10, is incorporated
                        herein by reference.

      3.2               By-Laws of Chicago Title, filed as Exhibit 3.2 to
                        Chicago Title's Registration Statement on Form 10, are
                        incorporated herein by reference.

      5                 Opinion and Consent of Dewey Ballantine LLP.

      23.1              Consent of Dewey Ballantine LLP (included in Exhibit 5
                        hereto).

      23.2              Consent of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP.

      99                Chicago Title Corporation 1998 Long-Term Incentive Plan.