A person commits gambling when he:
A. Plays a game of chance or skill for money or other thing of value, unless excepted in section 6-8-2 of this chapter; or
B. Makes a wager upon the result of any game, contest or any political nomination, appointment or election; or
C. Operates, keeps, owns, uses, purchases, exhibits, rents, sells, bargains for the sale or lease of, manufactures or distributes any gambling device; or
D. Contracts to have or give himself or another the option to buy or sell, or contracts to buy or sell, at a future time any grain or other commodity whatsoever or any stock or security of any company where it is, at the time of making such contract, intended by both parties thereto that the contract to buy or sell or the option, whenever exercised, or the contract resulting therefrom shall be settled, not by the receipt or delivery of such property, but by the payment only of differences in prices thereof; however, the issuance, purchase, sale, exercise, endorsement or guarantee by or through a person registered with the secretary of state pursuant to section 8 of the Illinois Securities Law of 1953, being 815 ILCS 5/8, or by or through a person exempt from such registration under said section 8 of a put, call or other option to buy or sell securities which have been registered with the secretary of state or which are exempt from such registration under section 3 of the Illinois Securities Law of 1953, being 815 ILCS 5/3, is not gambling within the meaning of this subsection; or
E. Knowingly owns or possesses any book, instrument or apparatus by means of which bets or wagers have been or are recorded or registered or knowingly possesses any money which he has received in the course of a bet or wager; or
F. Sells or pools upon the result of any game or contest of skill or chance, political nomination, appointment or election; or
G. Sets up or promotes any lottery or sells, offers to sell or transfers any ticket or share for any lottery with the exception of the lottery lawfully operated by the state of Illinois and its authorized agents; or
H. Sets up or promotes any policy game or sells, offers to sell or knowingly possesses or transfers any policy ticket, slip, record, document or other similar device; or
I. Knowingly advertises any lottery or policy game or drafts, prints or publishes any lottery ticket or share or any policy ticket, slip, record, document or similar device or any advertisement of any lottery or policy game; or
J. Knowingly transmits information as to wagers, betting odds or changes in betting odds by telephone, telegraph, radio, semaphore or similar means or knowingly installs or maintains equipment for the transmission or receipt of such information; except, that nothing in this subsection prohibits transmission or receipt of such information for the use in news reporting of sporting events or contents.
(Ord. 829, 10-3-1972; amd. Ord. 952, 9-24-1974)