When may an Illinois claimant sue after minority or legal disability at accrual ends?

Identify a covered action specified in Sections 13-201 through 13-210.

Establish minority or legal disability at the actual accrual date.

Obtain the actual eighteenth birthday or removal of that legal disability. A later disability adjudication is not automatically the removal event.

1. Identify a covered action specified in Sections 13-201 through 13-210.
2. Count two calendar years from the independently established eighteenth birthday or removal of the at-accrual legal disability. Apply Section 1.11 to a final excluded day. Do not give later-arising disability a fresh subsection (a) period automatically.
3. Check the final weekend, statutory holiday and the proper court’s actual calendar.
4. Commence the covered action within its applicable period. Preserve the claim classification, accrual, age or disability evidence, removal event and filing record. The calculator does not decide legal capacity.

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 a covered Sections 13-201 through 13-210 claim and minority or legal disability existing at accrual. This count does not classify later disability or other statutes. 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.

Only specified underlying actions fall within this subsection

Subsection (a) refers to actions specified in Sections 13-201 through 13-210. It does not supply one universal minority rule for every Illinois cause of action.

Disability must exist at accrual for subsection (a)

The two-year period after removal concerns legal disability existing when the covered cause accrued. The calculator does not determine whether a condition constitutes legal disability.

Later legal disability belongs under subsection (b)

Subsection (b) stays the period where the claimant was not under legal disability at accrual but became disabled before limitations otherwise ran. Do not substitute the subsection (a) two-year count for that stay.

The later-disability subsection preserves listed repose provisions

Subsection (b) states that it does not invalidate the listed repose provisions in Sections 13-201 through 13-210. An assumed disability stay does not automatically displace repose.

The later stay for residual and written claims is capped

Subsection (b) caps stays for Section 13-205 or Section 13-206 claims at ten years from adjudication of legal disability. That adjudication event differs from disability removal.

• 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 a covered action specified in Sections 13-201 through 13-210.
• Establish minority or legal disability at the actual accrual date.
• Obtain the actual eighteenth birthday or removal of that legal disability. A later disability adjudication is not automatically the removal event.
• Subsection (a) refers to actions specified in Sections 13-201 through 13-210. It does not supply one universal minority rule for every Illinois cause of action.
• The two-year period after removal concerns legal disability existing when the covered cause accrued. The calculator does not determine whether a condition constitutes legal disability.
• Subsection (b) stays the period where the claimant was not under legal disability at accrual but became disabled before limitations otherwise ran. Do not substitute the subsection (a) two-year count for that stay.
• Subsection (b) states that it does not invalidate the listed repose provisions in Sections 13-201 through 13-210. An assumed disability stay does not automatically displace repose.
• Subsection (b) caps stays for Section 13-205 or Section 13-206 claims at ten years from adjudication of legal disability. That adjudication event differs from disability removal.
• Commence the covered action within its applicable period. Preserve the claim classification, accrual, age or disability evidence, removal event and filing record. The calculator does not decide legal capacity. 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.