Under this Article, notwithstanding any other provision of law, but otherwise subject to the periods of exclusion from limitation as provided in Section 3-7 of this Code, the following limitations apply:
     (a) Any action, proceeding, or prosecution brought under this Article must commence within 5 years of one of the following dates, whichever is latest:
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Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 720 ILCS 5/33G-8

  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Predicate activity: means any act that is a Class 2 felony or higher and constitutes a violation or violations of any of the following provisions of the laws of the State of Illinois (as amended or revised as of the date the activity occurred or, in the instance of a continuing offense, the date that charges under this Article are filed in a particular matter in the State of Illinois) or any act under the law of another jurisdiction for an offense that could be charged as a Class 2 felony or higher in this State:
             (1) under the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal
    
Code of 2012: 8-1. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 720 ILCS 5/33G-3
  • Unlawful death: includes the following offenses: under the Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012: Sections 9-1 (first degree murder) or 9-2 (second degree murder). See Illinois Compiled Statutes 720 ILCS 5/33G-3

    •          (1) the date of the commission of the last occurrence
        
    of predicate activity in a pattern of that activity, in the form of an act underlying the alleged violation of this Article; or
            (2) in the case of an action, proceeding, or
        
    prosecution, based upon a conspiracy to violate this Article, the date that the last objective of the alleged conspiracy was accomplished, defeated or abandoned (whichever is later); or
            (3) the date any minor victim of the violation
        
    attains the age of 18 years or the date any victim of the violation subject to a legal disability thereafter gains legal capacity.
        (b) Any action, proceeding, or prosecution brought under this Article may be commenced at any time against all defendants if the conduct of any defendant, or any part of the overall violation, resulted in the unlawful death of any person or persons.
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