or wishes to challenge the scheduled amount or priority does not have an unlimited time to file a proof of claim. In a Chapter 11 case, the Court sets a bar date for all permissive and required claim filings. Fed. R.Bankr.P. 3003(c). This “enable[s] the debtor and its creditors to know, reasonably promptly, what parties are making claims and in what general amounts.” In re Dartmoor Homes, Inc., 175 B.R. 659, 664 (Bankr.N.D.Ill.1994). Debtors and interested parties are entitled to learn which creditors are filing claims against the bankruptcy estate on a timely basis. If proofs of claim can be filed up to two or three years late, the bankruptcy estate can be in a limbo over how to set forth a confirmable plan. See, e.g., In re Pettibone Corp., 156 B.R. 220, 229 (Bankr.N.D.Ill.1993) (<HOLDING>). The length of time after the bar date that a
holding that four year delay was extraordinary in chapter 11 ease where failure to file was attributed to carelessness and therefore prejudicial to permit creditor to share in distribution under previously confirmed plan holding that dismissal of a chapter 13 case vacates a confirmed plan holding that a secured creditor is not entitled to receive any more than that to which it was entitled pursuant to the terms of the confirmed plan holding that a creditors failure to vote or to object to a chapter 11 plan constitutes acceptance of the plan holding that a confirmed chapter 13 plan is binding on all parties under 11 usc  1327a however the plan may be modified pursuant to 11 usc  1329