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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.
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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.
Samuel P. Church, The Revised Ordinances of the City of Quincy, Illinois 47 (1841)
(1841)
§ 5: Prohibited the discharge of any cannon, musket, rifle, fowling piece, or other fire arms, air-gun, cracker, rocket, torpedo, squib, or other fire works within city limits. Violators fined not less than one, nor more than three dollars for each offense.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Consider H. Willett, Laws and Ordinances Governing the Village of Hyde Park 61, § 6, 8 (1876)
(1876)
§ 6: Prohibited shooting any bird or animal, hunting with a gun or dog in any street, alley, thoroughfare, park, or public grounds.
Robert v. Gustin, The Revised Municipal Code of East St. Louis of 1908, at 361, § 887-88 (1909)
(1908)
Chapter 39-Misdemeanors, Article 1-Offenses Affecting the Public Peace and Quiet, § 887: Prohibited firing or discharging any gun, pistol, or other firearm within city limits. Violators fined not more than twenty-five dollars for each offense.
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.
Isaac N. Phillips, The Revised Ordinances of the City of Bloomington 58 (1876)
(1876)
Division 3, Offenses Against Public Safety, Convenience and Health, §1, Firing Cannon, Guns, Fire-Crackers, etc.: Prohibited firing or discharging any cannon, gun, pistol, revolver, or any firearm of any description, or explode any squib, fire-cracker, torpedo, or other thing containing powder or other explosive material. Violators fined not less than two nor more than twenty dollars.
Isaac N. Phillips, The Revised Ordinances of the City of Bloomington 9 (1876)
(1876)
Chapter 2. Cemeteries, Section 1. §10. Shooting, Trespassing, etc.—Penalty: Prohibited discharging any firearm, or hunting, or trespassing within the city cemetery or any other cemetery or burying ground within the city. Violators fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars.
1861 Ill. Laws 144
(1861)
Sec. 78: Prohibited the discharge of any cannon, gun, fowling piece, pistol, or fire-arms of any description.
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§
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.
An Ordinance Relating to Misdemeanors, § 21, in The Act of Incorporation and Ordinances of the City of Bunker Hill, Illinois 66 (1873).
(1873)
Whoever shall, in any part of the city, fire or discharge any cannon, gun, pistol or other firearms, or shall set off, fire or explode any torpedo, fire cracker, fire ball, rocket or other fire works, whatever, or shall make or kindle any bonfire shall forfeit and pay the sum of not less than one dollar for each offense

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