When is an Illinois nonjury postjudgment motion due?

Establish that the case was tried without a jury.

Obtain the actual judgment-entry date, rather than the hearing or announcement date.

Check any further time the court allowed within the original period or an existing extension.

1. Establish that the case was tried without a jury.
2. Exclude the established judgment-entry day and count 30 calendar days under Section 1.11. An actual extension order supplies its own timetable.
3. Check the final weekend, statutory holiday and the proper court’s actual calendar.
4. File the requested rehearing, retrial, modification, vacatur or other relief with the proper clerk. Preserve the judgment, file mark and actual extension or stay orders. Rule 373(c) applies to a motion directed against judgment. Its mailing or carrier exception requires Rule 9(c) or (d) eligibility and Rule 12(b) proof; the carrier branch requires delivery for receipt within three business days. Otherwise preserve actual clerk receipt.

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 the unextended Section 2-1203(a) period for a case actually tried without a jury. This count does not decide finality or grant a stay. 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 statute concerns cases tried without a jury

Section 2-1203(a) addresses nonjury trials. A jury-case posttrial motion belongs under Section 2-1202, even when both statutes state a thirty-day base period.

Further time must actually be allowed

The court may allow further time within the thirty days or any extensions. The preset neither predicts that decision nor adds an extension automatically.

An injunction or declaration needs a separate stay

Section 2-1203(b) requires a court order following a separate application showing just cause to stay a judgment granting injunctive or declaratory relief.

Marriage and dissolution judgments have a statutory exception

Subsection (b) expressly excepts Section 413(a) of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. This calculator does not decide that exception’s application.

Finality and later judgments need separate review

Rule 274 addresses a motion directed at an otherwise final and appealable judgment, including a later superseding judgment. Identify the actual judgment and procedural posture.

• 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.

• Establish that the case was tried without a jury.
• Obtain the actual judgment-entry date, rather than the hearing or announcement date.
• Check any further time the court allowed within the original period or an existing extension.
• Section 2-1203(a) addresses nonjury trials. A jury-case posttrial motion belongs under Section 2-1202, even when both statutes state a thirty-day base period.
• The court may allow further time within the thirty days or any extensions. The preset neither predicts that decision nor adds an extension automatically.
• Section 2-1203(b) requires a court order following a separate application showing just cause to stay a judgment granting injunctive or declaratory relief.
• Subsection (b) expressly excepts Section 413(a) of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. This calculator does not decide that exception’s application.
• Rule 274 addresses a motion directed at an otherwise final and appealable judgment, including a later superseding judgment. Identify the actual judgment and procedural posture.
• File the requested rehearing, retrial, modification, vacatur or other relief with the proper clerk. Preserve the judgment, file mark and actual extension or stay orders. Rule 373(c) applies to a motion directed against judgment. Its mailing or carrier exception requires Rule 9(c) or (d) eligibility and Rule 12(b) proof; the carrier branch requires delivery for receipt within three business days. Otherwise preserve actual clerk receipt. 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.