(a) Prohibited. No person shall wear or carry concealed about his or her person any gun, pistol, revolver, metallic knuckles, bowie-knife, dirk, razor or other dangerous or deadly weapon, or display or flourish any such weapon in a boisterous or threatening manner.
(b) Exceptions. This provision does not apply, however, to the following officers, while engaged in the discharge of their official duties: sheriffs, coroners, policemen or other duly constituted peace officers; nor to the following employees or agents, while in the discharge of the duties of their employment: special agents and policemen employed by railroads; nor to persons lawfully summoned by an officer to assist in making arrests or preserving the peace while so engaged in assisting such an officer; nor to the concealed carrying of any type of gun by hunters when unloaded and properly cased, to or from any range or gallery or to or from a hunting area; nor to persons possessing a validly issued, unexpired license to carry a concealed handgun, pursuant to the Illinois Firearm Concealed Carry Act, 430 ILCS 66/1 et seq., as amended, and not located in a prohibited area, as defined by 430 ILCS 66/65, as amended.
(1977 Code §27-102; Ord. 2017-60. Passed 8-7-17.)