How do Illinois rehearing answers and replies use different periods?

Obtain the actual court request for an answer or order granting rehearing.

Establish the answer’s actual applicable due date, including any actual directions.

Use that due date for the separate fourteen-day reply period.

1. Obtain the actual court request for an answer or order granting rehearing.
2. Exclude the independently established triggering day and count intermediate calendar days under 5 ILCS 70/1.11. A filing, entry, effective service or previously established due date must come from its actual record. Do not substitute one event for another. Establish each act’s actual event and do not replace the answer due date with an early filing date.
3. Check statutory holidays and the proper court’s actual calendar.
4. Complete the particular act in the proper court.

Section 1.11 excludes a final Saturday, Sunday or statutory holiday and consecutive excluded days. Section 17(a) of the Promissory Note and Bank Holiday Act includes Pulaski Day, Good Friday and the general election for members of the House of Representatives. Check proclamations, the proper court’s actual calendar and clerk access separately. The bundled Illinois calendar covers 2026 and 2027.

This combined question requires a qualifying court event and two different periods. The single twenty-one-day preset cannot establish both the answer and reply deadlines.

An unsolicited answer is not received

Rule 367(d) requires a court request or grant of rehearing before an answer is received. It also prohibits a substantive relief change on denial without an answer request.

Reply timing uses the answer’s due date

The reply period is fourteen days after the answer’s due date. Establish that actual deadline rather than using the answer’s early filing or the original request date.

Length and compliance requirements differ

Absent authorization, the answer is limited to twenty-seven pages or 8,100 words and the reply to ten pages or 3,000 words. Each requires a Rule 341(c) compliance certificate. Rule 367(c) incorporates brief form and service, including duplicate paper copies if required.

Further rehearing and argument are limited

The existing briefs and rehearing papers stand as briefs on rehearing. Oral argument requires the court’s own order. Rule 367(e) bars another appellate-court rehearing petition after judgment on rehearing.

• The calculator does not decide appealability, disputed facts, sufficiency of a filing or whether the court grants relief.
• Check the governing edition and actual orders. A current rule does not establish every historical appeal’s timetable.

• Obtain the actual court request for an answer or order granting rehearing.
• Establish the answer’s actual applicable due date, including any actual directions.
• Use that due date for the separate fourteen-day reply period.
• Rule 367(d) requires a court request or grant of rehearing before an answer is received. It also prohibits a substantive relief change on denial without an answer request.
• The reply period is fourteen days after the answer’s due date. Establish that actual deadline rather than using the answer’s early filing or the original request date.
• Absent authorization, the answer is limited to twenty-seven pages or 8,100 words and the reply to ten pages or 3,000 words. Each requires a Rule 341(c) compliance certificate. Rule 367(c) incorporates brief form and service, including duplicate paper copies if required.
• The existing briefs and rehearing papers stand as briefs on rehearing. Oral argument requires the court’s own order. Rule 367(e) bars another appellate-court rehearing petition after judgment on rehearing.
• File only a permitted answer and the separately timed reply with the reviewing clerk. Comply with Rule 367(c) form, cover and service requirements and paragraph (d) length and compliance-certificate provisions. Use Rule 11’s applicable service method and file Rule 12 proof. Rule 12(c) makes electronic or personal delivery service effective on its stated day, mail service complete four days after mailing, and third-party carrier service complete on the third court day after delivery to the carrier. Establish effective service before using a service-triggered calculator. A rule requiring personal or email service cannot be replaced with ordinary mail. Use the proper clerk and required filing format. Rule 9 ordinarily requires electronic filing in civil cases, subject to its exceptions and exemptions. Rule 9(f) ordinarily uses submission before midnight in the court time zone, unless a statute, rule or order sets a particular time. A submission when the clerk is closed is ordinarily stamped on the next open day. Current Rule 9(f) provides separate five-court-day motions for a rejected filing or qualifying technical failure; establish the actual notice, failure, corrected document and required proof. Rule 373 ordinarily uses actual receipt, with its mail or carrier exception limited to filings excepted or exempt from electronic filing. Its carrier branch requires delivery for receipt within three business days and Rule 12(b) proof. Filing and service remain separate acts.