When does Illinois’s fraudulent-concealment filing period run?

Identify the person liable to the action and the cause of action allegedly concealed.

Establish fraudulent concealment from the knowledge of the person entitled to bring the action.

Independently establish when that entitled person discovered that cause of action.

1. Identify the person liable to the action and the cause of action allegedly concealed.
2. Count five calendar years from the independently established discovery of the concealed cause of action. Apply Section 1.11’s final-day treatment. Do not simply append five years to an expired ordinary limitation date.
3. Check the final weekend, statutory holiday and the proper court’s actual calendar.
4. Commence the applicable action within the properly established period. Preserve the concealment evidence, identity of the liable and entitled persons, discovery evidence, governing statutes and actual filing record.

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 this period only after establishing Section 13-215’s concealment and discovery requirements. The calculator does not decide whether conduct was fraudulent or how the provision interacts with another limitation or repose statute. Fictitious established event. No extension, tolling, competing deadline or special order is assumed.

Fictitious facts. The event and statutory classification are independently established. The calculator does not determine accrual, legal disability, fraudulent concealment, effective agency service or an actual court extension.

The liable person must fraudulently conceal the cause

Section 13-215 requires fraudulent concealment of the cause of action by the person liable to it. A later awareness date, standing alone, does not establish that statutory condition.

The object of discovery is the cause of action

The section measures from when the entitled person discovers that cause of action. The calculator cannot decide whether learning one fact was legally sufficient discovery.

This is not an automatic addition to every ordinary period

The stated five years runs from qualifying discovery. Review how Section 13-215 applies to the actual governing limitation or repose provision instead of adding five years to an unrelated deadline.

The separate ordinary claim remains relevant

Section 13-201, Section 13-205 and Section 13-206 classify different underlying claims. Preserve the actual cause and ordinary period while reviewing the asserted concealment provision.

• 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 person liable to the action and the cause of action allegedly concealed.
• Establish fraudulent concealment from the knowledge of the person entitled to bring the action.
• Independently establish when that entitled person discovered that cause of action.
• Section 13-215 requires fraudulent concealment of the cause of action by the person liable to it. A later awareness date, standing alone, does not establish that statutory condition.
• The section measures from when the entitled person discovers that cause of action. The calculator cannot decide whether learning one fact was legally sufficient discovery.
• The stated five years runs from qualifying discovery. Review how Section 13-215 applies to the actual governing limitation or repose provision instead of adding five years to an unrelated deadline.
• Section 13-201, Section 13-205 and Section 13-206 classify different underlying claims. Preserve the actual cause and ordinary period while reviewing the asserted concealment provision.
• Commence the applicable action within the properly established period. Preserve the concealment evidence, identity of the liable and entitled persons, discovery evidence, governing statutes and actual filing record. 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.