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Illinois

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Illinois. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the territorial period through statehood to the present.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, manufacturing and transportation records (e.g., Chicago and downstate corridors), and oral histories tied to Illinois people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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    1855 Ill. Laws 465
    (1855)
    An Act to Incorporate the Springdale Cemetery Association, § 15: Prohibited shooting or discharging any gun or other firearms within the cemetary limits. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.
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    The City Charter with the Several Laws Amendatory Thereto and the Revised Ordinances of the City of Peoria, Illinois 168 (James M. Cunningham ed., 1857)
    (1857)
    Prohibited the discharge of any cannon, musket, rifle, fowling-piece, pistol, or other fire-arms or air-guns. Violators fined not less than one but no more than one hundred dollars. Violators also forfeit the weapon.
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    1855 Ill. Laws, 25
    (1855)
    An Act To Incorporate the Town of Daville, § 16: Granted the town of Daville the power and authority to regulate the storage of tar, pitch, rosin, gun powder, and other combustible materials.
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    Laws and Ordinances Governing the City of Chicago 239 (Joseph E. Gary ed., 1866)
    (1851)
    Ch. 11, § 1: Prohibiting the keeping, sale, or giving away of gun powder or gun cotton "in any quantity" absent written permission of the authorities. Punishable by a fine of $25 per offense.
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    1856 Ill. Comp. Stat. 365
    (1855)
    Offenses Against the Persons of Individuals, Div. V, § 43: Prohibited dueling or agreeing to duel or single combat with any engine, instrument, or weapon where the probably consequence might be the death of either party, and shall kill his antagonist, or shall inflict a wound where the party shall die within one year. Each violator, his second, the second of the person killed, all aiders, abettors, and counselors convicted shall be punished under a high misdemeanor, punished by a prison term not less than one nor more than five years.