Illinois
Permanent URL for this collectionhttps://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3706
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.
Cite the Firearms Research Center and the item’s handle/DOI when using materials. Rights and licensing vary by item.
Browse
29 results
Filters
Advanced Search
Filter by
Settings
Search Results
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, Lawrence P. Conover, Revised Ordinances of the Village of Hinsdale, Illinois 1912, at 168-69 (1912)(1912)Chapter 26-Concealed Weapons, §§ 1-8. Undated: Prohibited concealed carry of any pistol, colt, slung-shot, cross knuckles, knuckles of lead, brass, or other metal, or Bowie-knife, dirk, dagger, or other dangerous or deadly weapon. Violators shall have weapons confiscated, arrested before a warrant is issued, fined not less than five nor more than two hundred dollars.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, 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.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, Robert v. Gustin, The Revised Municipal Code of East St. Louis of 1908, at 361, § 885 (1909)(1908)Chapter 39-Misdemeanors, Article 1-Offenses Affecting the Public Peace and Quiet, § 885: Prohibited concealed carry of any pistol, revolver, slungshot, metallic knuckles, Bowie-knife, dirk, razor, or other dangerous or deadly weapon. Also prohibited brandishing such weapons. Violators fined not less than twenty-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, Samuel A. Ettison, The Chicago Municipal Code of 1922, at 809 (1922)(1922)Article II, Regulations, Sec. 2870: Prohibited carry of firearms, throwing stones, or other missiles in any of the parks, public playgrounds, or bathing beaches in the city. Prohibited cutting, breaking, or injuring trees, shrubs, plants, turf, fences, bridges, or other construction or property contained therein.Item type:Item, Edward J. Padden, Amendments to the Revised Municipal Code of Chicago of 1905, at 40 (1905)(1905)Art. I p.40 § 1562: Prohibited carry of firearms, throwing stones, or other missiles within any of the parks, public playgrounds, or beaches within the city.Item type:Item, Samuel A. Ettelson, Opinions of the Corporation Counsel and Assistants from May 1, 1915, to June 30, 1916, at 458-59 (1916)(1914)Ordinance of May 25, 1914, §§4a-6: Required weapon sales through licensed dealers only; required purchasers of such weapons to first receive a permit from the General Superintendent of Police. Required purchasers provide proof of good moral character to receive permit; gives Superintendent discretion on issuance of permits. Prohibited the issuance of permits to anyone who was convicted of any crime and minors. Punishable by a fine.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, 1917 Ill. Laws 341(1917)An Act to Define and Provide a Punishment for the Crime of Burglary with Explosives, § 1: Enhanced the sentence of anyone who breaks and enters into a building with the purpose of committing any crime and uses nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, or any other explosive. Violators deemed guilty of burglary with explosives and shall be imprisoned not less than five nor more than twenty years.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, 1901 Ill. Laws 213(1901)Protection of Game, § 1: Prohibited shoot, kill, destroy, or shoot at any wild goose, brant, or other water fowl with a swivel gun.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, 1931 Ill. Laws 452-54(1931)An Act to Regulate the Sale, Possession and Transportation of Machine Guns, § 4: Required every manufacturer or merchant to keep a register of all machine guns manufactured or handled. Data kept includes the sale, loan, gift, delivery, or receipt of any machine gun, the name, address, and occupation of the person to whom the machine gun was delivered, from whom it was received, and why it was sold, loaned, given, delivered, purchased, or obtained said machine gun. Law enforcement shall have on-demand access to these records.Item type:Item, 1908 Ill. Laws 40-41(1908)Regulate Storage of Combustibles—Fireworks, §1334, pt. 65: Amended the powers granted to cities with a population of one hundred thousand or more to regulate and prevent the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzine, turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitro-glycerine, petroleum, or other combustible or explosive material.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, 278 Samuel Irwin, Reports of Cases At Law And In Chancery 566 (1917)(1917)Court issued opinion reciting chapter 54 of the Chicago code of 1911, where an ordinance granted the general superintendent of the police the authority to refuse a license to those not considered "the People" of the time, namely persons having been convicted of a crime and minors. The licenses concerned buying, selling, or otherwise transferring pistols, revolvers, derringers, Bowie-knives, dirk, other weapons of like character.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.