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705 ILCS 85/1 (2026)

Whenever the record of any judgment or order, or other proceeding, of any judicial court of this State, or any part of the record of any judicial proceeding, shall have been or shall hereafter be lost or destroyed, any party or person interested therein may, on application by petition, in writing, under oath, to such court, and on showing, to the satisfaction of such court, that the same has been lost or destroyed without fault or neglect of the party or person making such application, obtain an order from such court, authorizing such defect to be supplied by a duly certified copy of such original record, where the same can be obtained; which certified copy shall, thereafter, have the same effect as such original record would have had, in all respects

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(705 ILCS 85/1) (from Ch. 116, par. 1)
    Sec. 1. Whenever the record of any judgment or order, or other proceeding, of any judicial court of this State, or any part of the record of any judicial proceeding, shall have been or shall hereafter be lost or destroyed, any party or person interested therein may, on application by petition, in writing, under oath, to such court, and on showing, to the satisfaction of such court, that the same has been lost or destroyed without fault or neglect of the party or person making such application, obtain an order from such court, authorizing such defect to be supplied by a duly certified copy of such original record, where the same can be obtained; which certified copy shall, thereafter, have the same effect as such original record would have had, in all respects.
(Source: P.A. 79-1366.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases, 1997–2016 · leading case: People v. Pitts, 2016 IL App (1st) 132205 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016).
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People v. Pitts, 2016 IL App (1st) 132205 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016). · cites it 2× “¶ 45 Defendant relies on the Court Records Restoration Act (at times, the Act) (705 ILCS 85/1 et seq. (West 2010)), and our supreme court's decision in People v.”
People v. Wells, 696 N.E.2d 303 (Ill. 1998). · cites it 2× “Further, the State petitioned the circuit court to restore the complaint, the warrant and the return of warrant, pursuant to the Court Records Restoration Act (705 ILCS 85/1 et seq. (West 1992)). The State again insisted that all three documents had once been filed with the…”
People v. Wells, 676 N.E.2d 691 (Ill. App. Ct. 1997). “An order restoring the search warrant pursuant to the Court Records Restoration Act (705 ILCS 85/1 et seq. (West 1992)) would only recognize and restore what once existed.”
People v. Wells (Ill. 1998). · cites it 2× “Further, the State petitioned the circuit court to restore the complaint, the warrant and the return of warrant, pursuant to the Court Records Restoration Act (705 ILCS 85/1 et seq. (West 1992)). The State again insisted that all three documents had once been filed with the…”
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