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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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    Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Chicago 113-14 (1874).
    (1873)
    An Ordinance Prohibiting the Sale to or Furnishing Minors with Firearms: That no person within said city shall sell to or in any manner furnish any minor with any gun, pistol, revolver, or other firearms; and any person offending against this ordinance shall on conviction be fined in a sum of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense.
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    Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Chicago 140 (Vol. 5, 1874)
    (1873)
    § 1: Prohibited the sale of any gun, pistol, revolver, or other firearms to any minor. Violators shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense.
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    1882 Ill. Rev. Stat. 375
    (1881)
    § 54(b): Prohibited selling, giving, loaning, hiring , bartering, or offering for sale any pistol, revolver, derringer, Bowie knife, dirk, or other deadly weapon to minors. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not less than twenty-five but no more than two hundred dollars.
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    1881 Ill. Laws 71
    (1881)
    Prohibited selling, giving, loaning, hiring for barter any minor a pistol, revolver, derringer, Bowie knife, dirk or other deadly weapon. Punishable by fine of $25-200.