@ChristianHupfer hello. If you are around, would you happen to know why your solution does not work when I switched to legal size page please?
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/309244/how-to-show-list-of-figures-and-list-of-tables-inside-chapters-only-and-not-also it works very well when I compile lettersize, but once I switched to legal size, your magic code had no effect. I added this line
\usepackage[legalpaper,top=1in,bottom=1.3in, left=1.3in, right=.8in,footskip=0.25in]{geometry}