Rule 608 The Record on Appeal.

(a) Designation and Contents. The clerk of the circuit court shall prepare the record on appeal upon the filing of a notice of appeal as directed by the appellate court docketing order. The record on appeal must contain the entire record of the circuit court including all documents within the common-law portion of the record, all reports of proceedings of each court appearance from the filing of the charge(s) in the circuit court forward, and all exhibits, and shall be compiled and transmitted to the clerk of the appellate court as directed by the Supreme Court of Illinois Standards and Requirements for Electronic Filing the Record on Appeal, with the following: (1) a certificate of the clerk showing the impaneling of the grand jury if the prosecution was commenced by indictment; (2) the indictment, information, or complaint; (3) a transcript of the proceedings at the defendant’s arraignment and plea; (4) all motions, transcript of motion proceedings, and orders entered thereon; (5) all arrest warrants, search warrants, consent to search forms, eavesdropping orders, and any similar documents; (6) a transcript of proceedings regarding waiver of counsel and waiver of jury trial, if any; (7) the report of proceedings, including opening statements by counsel, testimony offered at trial, and objections thereto, offers of proof, arguments and rulings thereon, the instructions offered and given, and the objections and rulings thereon, closing argument of counsel, communications from the jury during deliberations, and responses and supplemental instructions to the jury and objections, arguments and rulings thereon; the court reporting personnel as defined in Rule 46 shall take the record of the proceedings regarding the selection of the jury, but the record need not be transcribed unless a party designates that such proceedings be included in the record on appeal; (8) exhibits offered at trial and sentencing, along with objections, offers of proof, arguments, and rulings thereon; except that physical and demonstrative evidence, other than photographs, which do not fit on a standard size record page shall not be included in the record on appeal unless ordered by a court upon motion of a party or upon the court’s own motion; (9) the verdict of the jury or finding of the court; (10) post-trial motions, including motions for a new trial, motions in arrest of judgment, motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and the testimony, arguments and rulings thereon; (11) transcript(s) of proceedings at sentencing, including the presentence investigation report, testimony offered and objections thereto, offers of proof, argument, and rulings thereon, arguments of counsel, and statements by the defendant and the court; (12) the judgment and sentence; and (13) the notice of appeal, if any. Within 14 days after the notice of appeal is filed the appellant and the appellee may file a designation of additional portions of the circuit court record to be included in the record on appeal. Thereupon the clerk shall include those portions in the record on appeal. Additionally, upon motion of a party, the court may allow photographs of exhibits to be filed as a supplement to the record on appeal, in lieu of the exhibits themselves, when such photographs accurately depict the exhibits themselves. There is no distinction between the common law record and the report of proceedings, for the purpose of determining what is properly before the reviewing court.

(b) Report of Proceedings; Time. The report of proceedings contains the testimony and exhibits, the rulings of the trial judge, and all other proceedings before the trial judge, unless the parties designate or stipulate for less. It shall be certified by court reporting personnel or the trial judge and shall be filed in the trial court within 49 days after the filing of the notice of appeal. The report of proceedings shall be taken as true and correct unless shown to be otherwise and corrected in a manner permitted by Rule 329.

(c) Time for Filing Record on Appeal. The record shall be filed in the reviewing court within 63 days from the date the notice of appeal is filed in the trial court. If the time for filing the report of proceedings has been extended, the record on appeal shall be filed within 14 days after the expiration of the extended time.

(d) Extensions of Time. The reviewing court or any judge thereof may extend the time for filing, in the trial court, the report of proceedings or agreed statement of facts or for serving a proposed report of proceedings, on notice and motion filed in the reviewing court before the expiration of the original or extended time, or on notice and motion filed within 35 days thereafter. Motions for extensions of time shall be supported by an affidavit showing the necessity for extension. Motions made after expiration of the original or extended time shall be further supported by a showing of reasonable excuse for failure to file the motion earlier. However, when a motion for extension of time is filed pro se from a correctional institution, the movant may submit, in lieu of the affidavit referred to herein, a certification as provided in section 1-109 of the Code of Civil Procedure (735 ILCS 5/1-109).