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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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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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§
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    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.