When must Illinois court reporting personnel file reports of proceedings?

Obtain actual notice filing rather than judgment entry or the transcript request.

Establish the reporting personnel and requested proceedings.

Check actual extensions and special or accelerated requirements.

1. Obtain actual notice filing rather than judgment entry or the transcript request.
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.
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.

Fictitious example

Fictitious facts. An ordinary notice of appeal is actually filed without a special timetable or extension. The established event is July 12, 2027. No additional closure, special appeal or different order applies.

Fictitious facts. The appeal classification and triggering event are independently established. No additional closure, court order or unmodeled restart is assumed.

Certification and notification are required

Rule 323(b) requires certification of accuracy and notice to all parties of completion and circuit-clerk filing. The report is taken as correct unless shown otherwise and corrected under Rule 329.

Each report has its own searchable file

Paragraph (b) requires a separate transcribed, dated and numbered searchable PDF for each report, with the specified first-page identifiers.

Report extensions require a supported reviewing-court motion

Rule 323(e) permits a motion before original or extended expiry or within thirty-five days thereafter. Support it with an affidavit showing necessity. After expiry, also show reasonable excuse for not filing the motion earlier. Serve the preparing clerk. Relief requires an actual order.

Accelerated minor-related reports use another period

Rule 311(a)(4) requires the covered record and transcript in the Appellate Court no later than thirty-five days after notice filing or the qualifying grant of leave. Check its affidavit and service conditions.

• 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 actual notice filing rather than judgment entry or the transcript request.
• Establish the reporting personnel and requested proceedings.
• Check actual extensions and special or accelerated requirements.
• Rule 323(b) requires certification of accuracy and notice to all parties of completion and circuit-clerk filing. The report is taken as correct unless shown otherwise and corrected under Rule 329.
• Paragraph (b) requires a separate transcribed, dated and numbered searchable PDF for each report, with the specified first-page identifiers.
• Rule 323(e) permits a motion before original or extended expiry or within thirty-five days thereafter. Support it with an affidavit showing necessity. After expiry, also show reasonable excuse for not filing the motion earlier. Serve the preparing clerk. Relief requires an actual order.
• Rule 311(a)(4) requires the covered record and transcript in the Appellate Court no later than thirty-five days after notice filing or the qualifying grant of leave. Check its affidavit and service conditions.
• Electronically file each separate searchable PDF with the circuit clerk. Include its hearing date, proceeding type, case number, caption and presiding judge on the first page. Certify accuracy and notify all parties that it is completed and filed. Preserve the actual receipt. 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.