When must an Illinois defaulted party respond to notice of new or additional relief?

Confirm that the pleading seeks new or additional relief against a party within Rule 105(a)’s notice category.

Identify the permitted summons-service, certified or registered mail, or publication branch.

Establish actual service, actual mail receipt or the first publication date for that branch.

1. Confirm that the pleading seeks new or additional relief against a party within Rule 105(a)’s notice category.
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. A valid Rule 105(b)(2) notice is actually received by its defendant and all applicable method requirements are established. The established event is August 2, 2027. No additional local closure or different court order is assumed.

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

Mail notice requires actual receipt

Rule 105(b)(2) requires prepaid certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, showing recipient, delivery date and address. Use restricted delivery for a natural person. Service is not complete until the defendant receives the notice; mailing alone is insufficient.

Publication has limited scope

Rule 105(b)(3) permits publication only in the stated publication cases and upon the required affidavit. Use the first publication date only after establishing that this method is permitted.

The notice and pleading have required content

Rule 105(a) requires a captioned notice directed to the party, describing the filed new or additional relief and thirty-day default warning. Except for publication, attach the new or amended pleading unless the court excuses it for good cause on ex parte application.

Summons-service proof differs from mail proof

Rule 105(b)(1) permits the methods provided by law for summons service. An officer may provide a return; another eligible server provides the stated affidavit or certification of time, manner and place.

• The calculator does not decide the applicable civil procedure, 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 case’s timetable.

• Confirm that the pleading seeks new or additional relief against a party within Rule 105(a)’s notice category.
• Identify the permitted summons-service, certified or registered mail, or publication branch.
• Establish actual service, actual mail receipt or the first publication date for that branch.
• Rule 105(b)(2) requires prepaid certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, showing recipient, delivery date and address. Use restricted delivery for a natural person. Service is not complete until the defendant receives the notice; mailing alone is insufficient.
• Rule 105(b)(3) permits publication only in the stated publication cases and upon the required affidavit. Use the first publication date only after establishing that this method is permitted.
• Rule 105(a) requires a captioned notice directed to the party, describing the filed new or additional relief and thirty-day default warning. Except for publication, attach the new or amended pleading unless the court excuses it for good cause on ex parte application.
• Rule 105(b)(1) permits the methods provided by law for summons service. An officer may provide a return; another eligible server provides the stated affidavit or certification of time, manner and place.
• File the answer or appearance with the proper clerk. Preserve the notice, new or amended pleading and method-specific proof. For Rule 105(b)(2), preserve the return receipt showing recipient, date and address. Complete applicable response service and proof separately. File with the proper clerk in the required format. Rule 9 ordinarily requires civil electronic filing, subject to its exceptions and exemptions. Rule 9(f) ordinarily requires submission before midnight in the court time zone unless a statute, rule or actual order specifies a different time. A submission on a closed clerk day ordinarily receives the next open-day stamp. Preserve the actual electronic file mark, receipt and any filing-relief order. Filing and service are distinct acts.