Statute of Limitations for Discovery Rule in Illinois

Statute of Limitations for Discovery Rule in Illinois

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Published September 20, 2025 • Updated May 16, 2026 • By DocketMath Team

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How the limitation period applies

The controlling primary authority for discovery-rule is 735 ILCS 5/13-215.

735 ILCS 5/13-215. If a person liable to an action fraudulently conceals the cause of such action from the knowledge of the person entitled thereto, the action may be commenced at any time within 5 years after the person entitled to bring the same discovers that he or she has such cause of action, and not afterwards.

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Sources

All sources are official primary law published by www.ilga.gov.

Corroboration method: spa_subagent_dual_fetch.