735 ILCS 5/2-1301
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 735 - CIVIL PROCEDURE|735 ILCS 5/ - Code of Civil Procedure.|Article II - Civil Practice

 (from Ch. 110, par. 2-1301)Sec. 2-1301.     Judgments - Default - Confession.     (a) The court shall  determine the rights of the parties and grant to any party any  affirmative relief to which the party may be entitled on the pleadings and  proofs.  Judgments shall be in the form required by the nature of the  case and by the recovery or relief awarded.  More than one judgment  may  be rendered in the same cause.  If relief is granted against a party who  upon satisfying the same in whole or in part will be entitled by  operation of law to be reimbursed by another party to the action, the  court may determine the rights of the parties as between themselves, and  may thereafter upon motion and notice in the cause, and upon a showing  that satisfaction has been made, render a final judgment against the  other party accordingly.(b) A determination in favor of the plaintiff on an issue as to the truth  or validity of any  defense in abatement shall be that the defendant answer or otherwise plead.(c) Except as otherwise limited by this subsection (c), any person  for a debt bona fide due may confess judgment by himself or herself or attorney  duly authorized, without process.  The application to confess judgment  shall be made in the county in which the note or obligation was executed  or in the county in which one or more of the defendants reside or in any  county in which is located any property, real or personal, owned by any  one or more of the defendants.  A judgment entered by any court in any  county other than those herein specified has no force or validity,  anything in the power to confess to the contrary notwithstanding.No power to confess judgment shall be required or given after September  24, 1979 in any instrument used in  a consumer transaction; any power to confess given in violation hereof  is null and void and any judgment entered by a court based on such power  shall be unenforceable. "Consumer transaction" as used in this Section  means a sale, lease, assignment, loan, or other disposition of an item  of goods, a consumer service, or an intangible to an individual for  purposes that are primarily personal, family, or household.(d) Judgment by default may be entered for want of an appearance, or  for failure to plead, but the court may in either case, require proof of  the allegations of the pleadings upon which relief is sought.(e) The court may in its discretion, before final order or judgment,  set aside any default, and may on motion filed within 30 days after  entry thereof set aside any final order or judgment upon any terms and  conditions that shall be reasonable.(f) The fact that any order or judgment is joint does not deprive  the court of power to set it aside as to fewer than all the parties, and  if so set aside it remains in full force and effect as to the other  parties.(g) If any final judgment is entered against any defendant who has  been served by publication with notice of the commencement of the action  and who has not been served with a copy of the complaint, or received  the notice required to be sent him or her by mail, or otherwise brought into  court, and such defendant or his or her heirs, legatees,  or personal representatives, as the  case may require, shall, within 90 days after notice in writing given  him or her of the judgment, or within 1 year after the judgment, if no notice  has been given, appear in open court and petition to be heard touching  the matter of the judgment, the court shall upon notice being given to  the parties to such action who appeared therein and the purchaser at a  sale made pursuant to the judgment, or their attorneys, set the petition  for hearing and may allow the parties and the purchaser to answer  the petition.  If upon the hearing it appears that the judgment ought  not to have been made against the defendant, it may be set aside,  altered or amended as appears just; otherwise the petition shall be  dismissed at petitioner's costs.  If, however, a sale has been had under  and pursuant to the final judgment, the court, in altering or amending  the judgment may, upon terms just and equitable to the defendant, permit  the sale to stand. If upon the hearing of the petition it appears that  the defendant was entitled under the law to redeem from the sale, the  court shall permit redemption to be made at any time within 90 days  thereafter, upon terms that are equitable and just.    (Source: P.A. 83-707.)