When is an ordinary Illinois local-public-entity injury action due?

Identify the defendant’s actual local-public-entity or employee status, rather than relying on the location of injury.

Establish whether the claimed injury arises out of patient care under subsection (b).

Determine and preserve the governing injury or accrual event for the particular covered action.

1. Identify the defendant’s actual local-public-entity or employee status, rather than relying on the location of injury.
2. Measure one calendar year after the independently established subsection (a) event. The patient-care branch instead has discovery and act-based components. This preset does not identify the applicable cause of action.
3. Check the final weekend, statutory holiday and the proper court’s actual calendar.
4. Commence the correct covered action against the proper defendant and retain injury, accrual and defendant-status evidence. Establish any separate governing statutory requirements before filing.

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

Use subsection (a) only for the covered local entity or employee and non-patient-care action. Identify the actual claim and event independently. This does not classify every state or federal claim involving a public employee. Fictitious statutory event, independently established under the precise scope stated in this guide. Use subsection (a) only for the covered local entity or employee and non-patient-care action. Identify the actual claim and event independently. This does not classify every state or federal claim involving a public employee.

Fictitious qualifying non-patient-care action. Defendant status, governing claim and the applicable injury or accrual event are independently established.

Patient care is expressly separated

Subsection (a) excepts (b). The latter addresses patient-care injury or death with two years from the earliest stated knowledge or notice and a four-year act-based component.

Covered civil actions have broad stated scope

Subsection (c) includes common-law, statutory and Illinois constitutional actions. Determine the governing claim separately rather than infer that this text governs every federal cause of action.

Location alone does not establish the defendant’s status

Subsection (a) specifies a local public entity or its employee. A public location or publicly funded activity alone does not establish that the defendant falls within that category.

Historical application has protected-rights qualifications

Subsection (d) addresses the 2003 amendment’s application to pending and later actions, without impairing vested rights or creating the stated new duties or liabilities for past events.

• This calculation does not determine whether relief is available or whether the facts satisfy the statute.
• A current statutory edition does not establish the law for every historical claim. Preserve the applicable edition and actual orders.

• Identify the defendant’s actual local-public-entity or employee status, rather than relying on the location of injury.
• Establish whether the claimed injury arises out of patient care under subsection (b).
• Determine and preserve the governing injury or accrual event for the particular covered action.
• Subsection (a) excepts (b). The latter addresses patient-care injury or death with two years from the earliest stated knowledge or notice and a four-year act-based component.
• Subsection (c) includes common-law, statutory and Illinois constitutional actions. Determine the governing claim separately rather than infer that this text governs every federal cause of action.
• Subsection (a) specifies a local public entity or its employee. A public location or publicly funded activity alone does not establish that the defendant falls within that category.
• Subsection (d) addresses the 2003 amendment’s application to pending and later actions, without impairing vested rights or creating the stated new duties or liabilities for past events.
• Commence the correct covered action against the proper defendant and retain injury, accrual and defendant-status evidence. Establish any separate governing statutory requirements before filing. 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.