When may an Illinois reviewing-court mandate issue?

Obtain the actual reviewing-court judgment entry and any mandate direction.

Establish timely rehearing and its actual disposition, including any order modifying the stay.

Check actual Supreme Court filings, injunction status and stay, recall or issuance orders.

1. Obtain the actual reviewing-court judgment entry and any mandate direction.
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 the applicable earliest boundary and all stays; do not present the boundary as actual issuance.
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.

Mandate issuance is a conditional clerk act with an earliest boundary, rehearing and review stays, and order exceptions. The fixed preset cannot establish a final party deadline or actual issuance date.

Timely rehearing stays the ordinary mandate

Rule 368(a) stays the mandate until disposition of a timely rehearing petition unless otherwise ordered. After denial, its ordinary earliest boundary is thirty-five days from denial entry, subject to an order shortening or enlarging that period.

A corrected opinion alone does not extend transmission time

Rule 368(a) states that a corrected opinion without a filed rehearing petition does not extend the mandate-transmission period.

The injunction and Supreme Court-review branches differ

For an appellate decision modifying or setting aside an injunction, Rule 368(b) requires a court order to stay the mandate. In other cases, an entitled party’s Supreme Court review petition filed before the mandate may issue invokes the stated automatic stay. Actual orders can provide otherwise.

The courts can stay or recall the mandate on just terms

Rule 368(c) permits the stated appellate or Supreme Court stay and recall orders during Illinois review and addresses review potentially sought in the US Supreme Court. Establish the actual order and its scope.

• 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 reviewing-court judgment entry and any mandate direction.
• Establish timely rehearing and its actual disposition, including any order modifying the stay.
• Check actual Supreme Court filings, injunction status and stay, recall or issuance orders.
• Rule 368(a) stays the mandate until disposition of a timely rehearing petition unless otherwise ordered. After denial, its ordinary earliest boundary is thirty-five days from denial entry, subject to an order shortening or enlarging that period.
• Rule 368(a) states that a corrected opinion without a filed rehearing petition does not extend the mandate-transmission period.
• For an appellate decision modifying or setting aside an injunction, Rule 368(b) requires a court order to stay the mandate. In other cases, an entitled party’s Supreme Court review petition filed before the mandate may issue invokes the stated automatic stay. Actual orders can provide otherwise.
• Rule 368(c) permits the stated appellate or Supreme Court stay and recall orders during Illinois review and addresses review potentially sought in the US Supreme Court. Establish the actual order and its scope.
• The reviewing clerk transmits the mandate to the circuit court with notice to the parties under Rule 368(a). Obtain the actual mandate and docket transmission entry. Parties seeking review or a stay must use their separately applicable filing procedures. A projected earliest date does not prove transmission.