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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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    The City Charter with the Several Laws Amendatory Thereto and the Revised Ordinances of the City of Peoria, Illinois 254 (James M. Cunningham ed., 1857)
    (1869)
    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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    1869 Ill. Laws 17
    (1869)
    § 10: Granted the town the power and authority to regulate the storage of gunpowder and other combustible materials.
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    W. Selden Gale et al., Revised Ordinances of the City of Galesburg 69 (1896)
    (1869)
    § 1: Prohibited the sale or keeping for sale of gunpowder without a license. Licenses shall be limited to storing twenty-five pounds of gun powder at any one time unless it is stored in a secure magazine or fire-proof powder house located at least one hundred feet from any occupied building. Violators subject to a fine of twenty dollars.
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    Laws and Ordinances Governing the City of Chicago 88-89 (Murray F. Tuley ed., 1873)
    (1866)
    Chapter 31-Parks and Public Grounds, § 6-Firearms and Missiles Prohibited-Protection of Shrubbery. Revised Ordinance of 1866: Prohibited carry of firearms, throwing stones or other missiles with any of the public parks of Chicago. Forbade cutting, breaking, or in any way injuring or defacing trees, shrubs, plants, turf, or any buildings, fances, bridges, or other construction or property.
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    Laws and Ordinances Governing the City of Chicago 78 (Murray F. Tuley ed., 1873)
    (1866)
    Chapter 28-Misdemeanors, § 15-Fire Arms and Fire-Works Not to be Discharged-Permission-Penalty. Revised Ordinance of 1866: Prohibited firing or discharging any cannon, gun, fowling piece, pistol, or firearms of any description, or fire, explode, or set off any squib, crackers, or other thing containing powder, or other combustible, or explosive material. Violators shall be fined not less than two nor more than five dollars.
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    1861 Ill. Laws 144
    (1861)
    Sec. 78: Prohibited the discharge of any cannon, gun, fowling piece, pistol, or fire-arms of any description.
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    1867 Ill. Laws 650
    (1867)
    Authorized the town of Bloomington to regulate or prohibit the carrying or wearing of any pistol, colt, slung-shot, or cross knuckles, knuckles of brass, or other metal, Bowie-knife, dirk-knife, dirk, dagger or other dangerous or deadly weapon. Also provides for confiscation of such weapons.