When is an ordinary Illinois record on appeal due in the reviewing court?

Establish the appeal’s classification and whether Rule 326’s ordinary branch applies.

Obtain every actual notice filing and identify the last when multiple appeals are taken.

Check whether report-filing time was extended or the court granted a separate record extension.

1. Establish the appeal’s classification and whether Rule 326’s ordinary branch applies.
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. The last ordinary notice is filed and no report-filing extension or special record procedure applies. The established event is June 28, 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.

Special appeals have different record procedures

Rule 326 excepts Rules 306, 307, 308 and 335. Rule 311(a)(4) separately sets the accelerated minor-related record and transcript procedure. Establish the actual applicable appeal before using the ordinary record period.

An extended report period supplies another event

If report-filing time has been extended, Rule 326 uses fourteen days after expiration of the extended time. Do not add sixty-three days to a notice for that branch.

Multiple appeals use the last actual notice

Rule 326 expressly uses the last notice of appeal when more than one appeal is taken. Establish all notices before selecting the event.

Extension requests have their own timing and proof

Rule 326 permits motions before original or extended expiry or within thirty-five days thereafter with reasonable excuse for not filing the motion earlier. Serve the preparing clerk. A request is not a granted extension.

• 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.

• Establish the appeal’s classification and whether Rule 326’s ordinary branch applies.
• Obtain every actual notice filing and identify the last when multiple appeals are taken.
• Check whether report-filing time was extended or the court granted a separate record extension.
• Rule 326 excepts Rules 306, 307, 308 and 335. Rule 311(a)(4) separately sets the accelerated minor-related record and transcript procedure. Establish the actual applicable appeal before using the ordinary record period.
• If report-filing time has been extended, Rule 326 uses fourteen days after expiration of the extended time. Do not add sixty-three days to a notice for that branch.
• Rule 326 expressly uses the last notice of appeal when more than one appeal is taken. Establish all notices before selecting the event.
• Rule 326 permits motions before original or extended expiry or within thirty-five days thereafter with reasonable excuse for not filing the motion earlier. Serve the preparing clerk. A request is not a granted extension.
• Complete filing of the record with the reviewing court clerk, rather than only report filing with the circuit clerk. Serve any record-extension motion on the preparing clerk and preserve actual filing and order receipts. 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.