(A) A person commits criminal damage to property when he or she:
(1) Knowingly damages any property of another;
(2) Recklessly, by means of fire or explosion, damages property of another;
(3) Knowingly starts a fire on the land of another;
(4) Knowingly injures a domestic animal of another without his or her consent;
(5) Knowingly deposits on the land or in the building of another any stink bomb or any offensive-smelling compound and thereby tends to interfere with the use by another of the land or building;
(6) Knowingly damages any property, other than as described in ILCS Ch. 720, Act 7, § 20-1(a)(2) with intent to defraud an insurer;
(7) Knowingly shoos a firearm at any portion of a railroad train;
(8) Knowingly, without proper authorization, cuts, injures, damages, defaces, destroys, or tampers with any fire hydrant or any public or private firefighting equipment, or any apparatus appertaining to firefighting equipment;
(9) Intentionally, without proper authorization, opens any fire hydrant.
(ILCS Ch. 720, Act 5, § 21-1(a))
(B) For the purposes of this section, PROPERTY means anything of value including but not limited to real estate, money, commercial instruments, written instruments representing or embodying rights concerning anything of value, labor, or services, things affixed to or found on land or part of or affixed to any building, electricity, gas, or water.
Penalty, see § 130.99
Statutory references:
Affirmative defenses, see ILCS Ch. 720, Act 5, § 21-1(c)
Criminal damaging to village property, see ILCS Ch. 720, Act 5, § 21-1.01