What filing period applies to an Illinois childhood sexual abuse claim?

Establish whether the abuse occurred before age eighteen under subsection (a), or the claim concerns the stated Section 10-9 violation involving a minor.

Identify the acts, injury, discovery of the causal relationship, filing history and any period when the claim was already barred.

Read subsections (e) and (f) against the applicable amendment dates. Current text alone does not revive every historical barred claim.

1. Establish whether the abuse occurred before age eighteen under subsection (a), or the claim concerns the stated Section 10-9 violation involving a minor.
2. Identify the acts, injury, discovery of the causal relationship, filing history and any period when the claim was already barred.
3. Read subsections (e) and (f) against the applicable amendment dates. Current text alone does not revive every historical barred claim.
4. Subsection (f) supplies the current anytime rule with its stated 98th General Assembly applicability condition. Subsection (b) retains twenty-year formulas. Under (d), those periods do not begin before eighteen, or before removal of another legal disability present at eighteen. Establish the applicable regime before considering either formula.
5. Commence the action through the applicable court procedure and preserve the evidence establishing the statutory classification and historical status.

No computed date is published. Establish the applicable statutory periods and then check their governing counting and closed-day provisions separately.

Fictitious comparison. One covered claim was not barred when the 2013 amendment took effect. Another had already become barred. Identical birthdays do not establish identical applicability of subsection (f).

An anytime provision, historical applicability conditions and older discovery formulas cannot be reduced to one twenty-year interval.

Knowledge of abuse differs from injury discovery

For subsection (b), awareness of the abuse alone does not establish discovery of the injury and causal relationship. The text requires both elements.

Continuing acts by the same abuser

Subsection (c) addresses a continuing series by the same abuser. Its discovery inquiry concerns the last act and injury caused by any act in that series.

Coercion and concealment affect the older periods

Subsection (d-1) excludes time involving threats, intimidation, manipulation, fraudulent concealment or fraud by the abuser or someone acting in the abuser’s interest from subsection (b) periods.

The 2026 text includes the stated minor-trafficking claims

The current source note identifies P.A. 104-159, effective January 1, 2026. The reference to Section 10-9 involving a minor is not a rule for every trafficking claim.

• This source guide computes no date and does not determine whether the required facts are established.
• Preserve the operative edition, actual documents and relevant court orders. Historical applicability requires its own review.

• Establish whether the abuse occurred before age eighteen under subsection (a), or the claim concerns the stated Section 10-9 violation involving a minor.
• Identify the acts, injury, discovery of the causal relationship, filing history and any period when the claim was already barred.
• Read subsections (e) and (f) against the applicable amendment dates. Current text alone does not revive every historical barred claim.
• For subsection (b), awareness of the abuse alone does not establish discovery of the injury and causal relationship. The text requires both elements.
• Subsection (c) addresses a continuing series by the same abuser. Its discovery inquiry concerns the last act and injury caused by any act in that series.
• Subsection (d-1) excludes time involving threats, intimidation, manipulation, fraudulent concealment or fraud by the abuser or someone acting in the abuser’s interest from subsection (b) periods.
• The current source note identifies P.A. 104-159, effective January 1, 2026. The reference to Section 10-9 involving a minor is not a rule for every trafficking claim.
• Commence the action through the applicable court procedure and preserve the evidence establishing the statutory classification and historical status. 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.