When is an Illinois temporary-restraining-order responding memorandum due?

Obtain actual filing of the petition and authenticated supporting record.

Establish any petitioner memorandum’s actual filing and complete personal or email service.

Check actual Appellate Court variations before selecting the complete-material event.

1. Obtain actual filing of the petition and authenticated supporting record.
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 petition, supporting record and any petitioner memorandum are actually filed together and served as prescribed. The established event is August 2, 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.

Complete petitioner materials and prescribed service must be established

Rule 307(d)(2) identifies the petition, supporting record and any memorandum, which must be served personally or by email. Do not infer completion from the petition alone.

The respondent has its own length and service requirements

Rule 307(d)(2) limits the memorandum to fifteen pages or four thousand five hundred words and requires proof and personal or email service on the petitioner.

Replies, extensions and variations require actual orders

Rule 307(d)(3) permits neither replies nor time extensions except by court order. Paragraph (5) permits a different schedule, no memoranda or omission of other materials by actual Appellate Court order.

The court’s decision period is a separate business-day stage

Rule 307(d)(4) addresses the Appellate Court’s decision after petitioner filing and expiry of response time, without oral argument. Do not use that court-action period as this two-day party filing window.

• 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 filing of the petition and authenticated supporting record.
• Establish any petitioner memorandum’s actual filing and complete personal or email service.
• Check actual Appellate Court variations before selecting the complete-material event.
• Rule 307(d)(2) identifies the petition, supporting record and any memorandum, which must be served personally or by email. Do not infer completion from the petition alone.
• Rule 307(d)(2) limits the memorandum to fifteen pages or four thousand five hundred words and requires proof and personal or email service on the petitioner.
• Rule 307(d)(3) permits neither replies nor time extensions except by court order. Paragraph (5) permits a different schedule, no memoranda or omission of other materials by actual Appellate Court order.
• Rule 307(d)(4) addresses the Appellate Court’s decision after petitioner filing and expiry of response time, without oral argument. Do not use that court-action period as this two-day party filing window.
• File any responding memorandum with the Appellate Court and proof of personal or email service. Serve it on the petitioner personally or by email. Observe the fifteen-page or four-thousand-five-hundred-word limit and actual orders. Preserve complete petitioner filing and service records. 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.