When may I request permission for a late Illinois civil notice of appeal?

Establish the actual applicable notice deadline from the governing entry, motions and final-day rules.

Use that independently established expiry as the input, rather than the judgment or intended late-notice filing date.

Prepare the reasonable-excuse showing, proposed notice and required filing fee.

1. Establish the actual applicable notice deadline from the governing entry, motions and final-day rules.
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. Count from the independently established actual appeal deadline.
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 independently established actual notice period expires on the input date. The party seeks permission to file late. The established input date is August 2, 2027. No additional closure, different order or unmodeled restart applies.

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

Late-notice relief requires a motion and court permission

Rule 303(d) allows a motion in the reviewing court within thirty days after the actual appeal-filing time expires. Include a showing of reasonable excuse, the proposed notice and filing fee. The court may grant leave. An application or calculator result does not itself extend the notice period.

Only a timely qualifying motion changes the ordinary trigger

Rule 303(a)(1) requires a timely posttrial motion directed against the judgment. Use the order disposing of the last pending qualifying motion, not an earlier motion’s disposition or the filing date. Rule 303(a)(2) says a request to reconsider a ruling on a postjudgment motion does not toll the appeal time.

Another party has a separate order-based period

If late-notice permission is granted, Rule 303(d) permits another party to join, appeal separately or cross-appeal within ten days of the order allowing the late notice. The applicant’s motion date does not start those ten days.

The court directs the permitted filing

Rule 303(d) permits the reviewing court to grant leave and order its clerk to transmit the proposed notice to the trial court for filing. The calculator does not establish that the court has granted leave or that the transmitted notice has been filed.

• 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 actual applicable notice deadline from the governing entry, motions and final-day rules.
• Use that independently established expiry as the input, rather than the judgment or intended late-notice filing date.
• Prepare the reasonable-excuse showing, proposed notice and required filing fee.
• Rule 303(d) allows a motion in the reviewing court within thirty days after the actual appeal-filing time expires. Include a showing of reasonable excuse, the proposed notice and filing fee. The court may grant leave. An application or calculator result does not itself extend the notice period.
• Rule 303(a)(1) requires a timely posttrial motion directed against the judgment. Use the order disposing of the last pending qualifying motion, not an earlier motion’s disposition or the filing date. Rule 303(a)(2) says a request to reconsider a ruling on a postjudgment motion does not toll the appeal time.
• If late-notice permission is granted, Rule 303(d) permits another party to join, appeal separately or cross-appeal within ten days of the order allowing the late notice. The applicant’s motion date does not start those ten days.
• Rule 303(d) permits the reviewing court to grant leave and order its clerk to transmit the proposed notice to the trial court for filing. The calculator does not establish that the court has granted leave or that the transmitted notice has been filed.
• File the motion, reasonable-excuse support, proposed notice and filing fee with the reviewing clerk within the Rule 303(d) motion window. Obtain the actual court ruling. If leave is granted, the court orders transmission for circuit-court filing. 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.