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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.
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Item type:Item, The City Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Joliet, Illinois 296-99 (1884)(1884)Ch. 49, §§ 1-3: All persons upon whom shall be found any gambling apparatus or device, or any slung shot, pistol or knuckler of lead, brass or other metal, or any instrument, composition or thing used for the commission of burglary, arson, or for the picking of locks or pockets, or for the playing of any fraudulent tricks, plays or games, or for the manufacture of counterfeit money, or for the commission of any offense against the laws of this state, or the ordinances of said city, and who cannot give a good and satisfactory account of their possession of the same.Item type:Item, The Nashville Journal, March 26, 1880, at 4, Volume 18, Number 12(1880)Ordinance No. 29: Concerning the Carrying of Concealed Weapons: Prohibited concealed carry of any pistol, slung-shot, cross knuckles of lead, brass, or other metal, Bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, or any knife resembling a Bowie-knife, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon, instrument, or thing within the limits of the city. Violators fined not less than twenty nor more than two hundred dollars and cost of suit for each offense.Item type:Item, Wilbert I. Slemmons, Laws and Ordinances of the City of Peoria Illinois 653 (1892)(1891)§ 1670, § 54: Prohibited discharging any air-gun, "bean-shooter," "nigger-killer", or any other instrument or machine, from which a missile is discharged or hurled, under a penalty of not less than twenty-five dollars for every offense.Item type:Item, Fred D. Guker, Revised Ordinances of the City of Red Bud, Illinois 35 (1898)(1898)35. Article 3-Public Safety, §8-Selling Weapons to Minors. Passed March 1, 1898, & Published March 29, 1898: Prohibited selling, giving, loaning, hiring, bartering, any minor a revolver, gun, derringer, slung shot, cross knuckles, knuckles of lead, brass, or other metal, Bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.Item type:Item, City Charter and Ordinances of the City of Lake Forest, Lake County, State of Illinois 88 (1894)(1893)Prohibited firing of a gun or pistol within the city limits and the concealed carry of firearms and other deadly weapons. Violators fined not exceeding three dollars for such offense.Item type:Item, Silas W. Porter, The Municipal Code of Monmouth 168-69 (1883)(1883)Art. 6, §§ 654-662: It shall be unlawful for any person, within the corporate limits of the city, to carry or wear under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any pistol, colt or slung shot, cross knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk, razor or dagger, or other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, The Revised Ordinances of the Town of Lake 177-78 (1882).(1882)Ch. 32, §§ 1-9 : It shall be unlawful for any person within the limits of the town to carry or wear under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any pistol, colt or slung shot, cross knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk, razor or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, George W. Hess, Revised Ordinances of the City of Evanston: Also Special Laws and Ordinances of General Interest 131-37 (1893)(1893)§ 531, § 535: Prohibited concealed carry of any pistol, colt, slung shot, cross knucklet, knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, Bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon. Violators fined not less than five nor more than two hundred dollars.Item type:Item, Egbert Jamieson & Francis Adams, The Municipal Code of Chicago 391-92 (1881)(1881)Article XLIII. Parks and Public Grounds, § 1690: Prohibited the carry of firearms or throwing of stones or other missiles within any public park. Prohibited cutting, breaking, or in any way injuring or defacing the trees, shrubs, plants, turf, or any buildings, fences, bridges, or other construction or property within any parks.Item type:Item, Revised Ordinances of the City of Danville, Illinois 179 (E. R. E. Kimbrough & W. J. Calhoun eds., 1892)(1883)§ 23: Prohibited the carrying of a concealed pistol, revolver, derringer, Bowie knife, dirk, slungshot, metallic knuckles, or a razor, as a weapon, or any other deadly weapon. Also prohibited displaying the weapon in a threatening or boisterous manner. Punishable by fine of $1-100 and forfeiting the weapon, if ordered by the magistrate.Item type:Item, Egbert Jamieson & Francis Adams, The Municipal Code of Chicago 301-04 (1881)(1881)§ 1264: Prohibited selling, keeping, or giving away any gunpowder or gun-cotton in any quantity. Violators fined twenty-five dollars for every offense.Item type:Item, 1885 Ill. Rev. Stat. 192(1885)An Act to Protect Cemeteries and to Provide for their Regulation and Management, § 1: That any person who shall willfully destroy, mutilate or injure any tomb, monument, stone, vault, tree, shrub or ornament, or any object whatever, in any cemetery, or in any avenue, lot or part thereof, or shall hunt, shoot or discharge any gun, pistol or other missile, with the limits of any cemetery, or shall cause any shot or missile to be discharged into or over any portion thereof, or shall violate any of the rules made and established by the board of directors of such cemetery§Item type:Item, 1893 Ill. Laws 477-78(1893)§ 54a: Prohibited the possession, selling, giving, loaning, hiring, bartering, any slung-shot or metallic knuckles, or other deadly weapon of like character. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not less than ten but no more than two hundred dollars.Item type:Item, 1885 Ill. Stat. Ann. 771, § 4(1885)Concealed Weapon - Flourishing weapon, ch. 38, § 4: Whoever shall carry a concealed weapon upon or about his person of the character in this Act specified, or razor as a weapon, or whoever, in a threatening or boisterous manner, shall display or flourish any deadly weapon, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200).Item type:Item, 1885 Ill. Laws 57(1885)An Act to Protect Cemeteries and to Provide for their Regulation and Management, § 1: Prohibited destroying, mutilating, or injuring any tomb, monument, stone, vault, tree, shrub, or ornament, or any object whatsoever in any cemetary. Also prohibited hunting, shooting, or discharging any gun, pistol, or other missile within any cemetary limits.Item type:Item, 1885 Ill. Rev. Stat. 771(1885)Criminal Code Ch. 38, para. 90: Required all dealers to keep a registration of all deadly weapons sold or given away, including any slung-shot, metallic knuckles, pistol, revolver, derringer, Bowie knife, dirk, or other deadly weapon.Item type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, 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.