Converting Javascript code to jQuery - Counting Table Rows

Converting Javascript code to jQuery - Counting Table Rows

I'm having a hard time converting the following JavaScript code into jQuery. I think I'm either over-thinking it, or making this harder on myself. I have an array of table id's and I want to iterate through each one and populate one of its cells with the number of rows. Using JavaScript by itself, this works fine - I just can't figure out how to incorporate jQuery in order to condense some of the code (even though I know I won't condense that much). Here is the code: Thanks in advance.

var tableID = ["acd", "misc", "que", "multi", "orig", "research", "ssr", "hallex", "cfr", "poms", "faccl", "hcp", "pdd", "jdn", "ndd", "drd", "medical"];

function countItems() {
    for (var i = 0; i < tableID.length; i++) {
        ID = document.getElementById(tableID[i]);
        tableRows = ID.getElementsByTagName("tr").length - 1;
        document.getElementById(tableID[i] + "Items").innerHTML = "items: " + tableRows;
      // the above line of code is for the div id with the number of rows //
    }
}