Statute of Limitations for Property Damage (personal property) in Illinois
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Published June 8, 2025 • Updated May 16, 2026 • By DocketMath Team
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Illinois statute-of-limitations: period is 3; statute of limitations years is 2.
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- Period: 3
- Statute Of Limitations Years: 2
- Government Notice Period Days: 365
- Limitation Period: 3 years
How the limitation period applies
The controlling primary authority for US-IL property damage SOL (735 ILCS 5/13-205) is 735 ILCS 5/13-205.
735 ILCS 5/13-205. Sec. 13-205. Five year limitation. Except as provided in Section 2-725 of the "Uniform Commercial Code", approved July 31, 1961, as amended, and Section 11-13 of "The Illinois Public Aid Code", approved April 11, 1967, as amended, actions on unwritten contracts, expressed or implied, or on awards of arbitration, or to recover damages for an injury done to property, real or personal, or to recover the possession of personal property or damages for the detention or conversion thereof, and all civil actions not otherwise provided for, shall be commenced within 5 years next after the cause of action accrued.
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Sources
All sources are official primary law published by www.ilga.gov.
Corroboration method: government_primary_source_direct_fetch.
