When must an Illinois personal-jurisdiction objection be raised?

Preserve every prior pleading or motion and its actual filing sequence.

Identify any initial extension-to-plead or Section 2-1301, 2-1401 or 2-1401.1 motion.

Read the actual order disposing of a listed statutory initial motion and any combined motion.

1. Preserve every prior pleading or motion and its actual filing sequence.
2. Identify any initial extension-to-plead or Section 2-1301, 2-1401 or 2-1401.1 motion.
3. Read the actual order disposing of a listed statutory initial motion and any combined motion.
4. Under subsection (a-6), filing another pleading or motion first ordinarily prospectively waives personal-jurisdiction objections. The listed initial extension and statutory-relief motions are exceptions. The text attaches sixty days to disposition of the specified statutory motions, not merely to an extension request.
5. File the appropriate dismissal or service-quashing motion with affidavit support unless the relevant facts are apparent from filed papers. Identify combined-motion parts under Section 2-619.1 and preserve the resulting order.

This procedure does not supply one computed date. Establish each required event, selected date or filing sequence before applying any separately governing counting and closed-day provisions.

Fictitious comparison. One party first files a listed extension motion. Another first files an answer. Those first filings have different consequences under subsection (a-6), even if both occur on the same day after service.

The filing sequence and statutory exceptions control. A thirty-day service preset cannot detect a prior waiver or classify the later sixty-day branch.

Prospective waiver depends on actual filings

Section 2-301(a-6) makes earlier other pleadings or motions consequential, subject to its expressly listed exceptions. Do not treat an unused response period as protection against an earlier waiver.

The sixty-day branch has its own event

The sixty-day period uses the order disposing of an initial Section 2-1301, 2-1401 or 2-1401.1 motion. A motion solely seeking more time to plead does not itself supply that disposition event.

Affidavits have specific requirements

Section 2-301(a) requires an affidavit when the factual basis is not apparent from papers already filed. Rule 191(a) governs personal knowledge and admissible factual support.

Further participation can affect preserved error

Section 2-301(c) addresses waiver of error after an adverse ruling through further participation, with an exception for nonamenability to Illinois process. Preserve the particular ground and subsequent proceedings.

• This source guide does not compute a date or decide whether the required facts and filings are established.
• Preserve the applicable edition, actual documents and court orders. A different procedural branch requires its own review.

• Preserve every prior pleading or motion and its actual filing sequence.
• Identify any initial extension-to-plead or Section 2-1301, 2-1401 or 2-1401.1 motion.
• Read the actual order disposing of a listed statutory initial motion and any combined motion.
• Section 2-301(a-6) makes earlier other pleadings or motions consequential, subject to its expressly listed exceptions. Do not treat an unused response period as protection against an earlier waiver.
• The sixty-day period uses the order disposing of an initial Section 2-1301, 2-1401 or 2-1401.1 motion. A motion solely seeking more time to plead does not itself supply that disposition event.
• Section 2-301(a) requires an affidavit when the factual basis is not apparent from papers already filed. Rule 191(a) governs personal knowledge and admissible factual support.
• Section 2-301(c) addresses waiver of error after an adverse ruling through further participation, with an exception for nonamenability to Illinois process. Preserve the particular ground and subsequent proceedings.
• File the appropriate dismissal or service-quashing motion with affidavit support unless the relevant facts are apparent from filed papers. Identify combined-motion parts under Section 2-619.1 and preserve the resulting order. 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.