When are an accelerated Illinois minor-related record and transcript due?

Establish the covered final or permitted interlocutory appeal.

Identify actual notice filing or the qualifying grant of leave.

Obtain the record, transcript status and actual extension orders.

1. Establish the covered final or permitted interlocutory appeal.
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 covered final notice is actually filed without a granted extension. The established event is July 26, 2027. No additional closure or different actual order applies.

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

Acceleration does not create appealability

Rule 311(a) applies to its covered final minor-related orders and qualifying interlocutory appeals after Rule 306(a)(5) leave. Establish finality or actual permission separately. Other issues may be handled with the accelerated appeal only under the rule’s stated condition.

Covered filings require the special caption

Rule 311(a)(1) requires the prescribed bold expedited-disposition statement at the top of the front page of covered notices, petitions, docketing statements, briefs and other filings.

The extension showing comes from the preparing personnel

Rule 311(a)(4) requires an affidavit of the court clerk or court reporting personnel stating the reason for delay, served on the trial judge and chief judge. Subsequent continuance requests go to the Appellate Court on motion with notice to all parties.

Nonpayment does not excuse the deadline

Rule 311(a)(4) expressly excludes lack of advance payment as a reason for noncompliance with record or transcript filing deadlines.

District procedures and actual continuances require separate review

Rule 311(a)(6) requires district procedures and permits memoranda and separation of issues. Paragraph (8) disfavors continuances and permits them only for compelling circumstances, with possible personal appearance. Do not assume a request changes a deadline.

• 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 covered final or permitted interlocutory appeal.
• Identify actual notice filing or the qualifying grant of leave.
• Obtain the record, transcript status and actual extension orders.
• Rule 311(a) applies to its covered final minor-related orders and qualifying interlocutory appeals after Rule 306(a)(5) leave. Establish finality or actual permission separately. Other issues may be handled with the accelerated appeal only under the rule’s stated condition.
• Rule 311(a)(1) requires the prescribed bold expedited-disposition statement at the top of the front page of covered notices, petitions, docketing statements, briefs and other filings.
• Rule 311(a)(4) requires an affidavit of the court clerk or court reporting personnel stating the reason for delay, served on the trial judge and chief judge. Subsequent continuance requests go to the Appellate Court on motion with notice to all parties.
• Rule 311(a)(4) expressly excludes lack of advance payment as a reason for noncompliance with record or transcript filing deadlines.
• Rule 311(a)(6) requires district procedures and permits memoranda and separation of issues. Paragraph (8) disfavors continuances and permits them only for compelling circumstances, with possible personal appearance. Do not assume a request changes a deadline.
• Complete record and transcript filing in the Appellate Court. A request for extension requires the preparing clerk’s or reporting personnel’s delay affidavit and service on the trial judge and chief judge. Preserve the actual order rather than treating the request as relief. 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.