(A) It shall be unlawful for any to commit the following acts:
(1) To keep or maintain, directly or indirectly, any bawdy or disorderly house, house of ill-fame, or house of assignation, or place for the practice of fornication or adultery within the city or within the limits over which the jurisdiction of the city shall extend.
(2) To knowingly lease any building or premises owned by him or under his control to be used in whole or in part as a house of ill-fame or place for the practice of fornication or adultery, or to permit any building owned or controlled by him to be so used.
(3) To be an inmate or occupant of, or to visit or frequent or be found in any house of ill-fame, or place used for the practice of fornication or adultery.
(4) To entice, influence or persuade any female to enter or frequent any bawdy house, house of ill-fame or of assignation, or place used for the practice of fornication or adultery; or to induce any minor to enter or frequent, or to allow or permit any minor to remain in any such house or place.
(B) Any person violating the provisions of divisions (A)(1) through (4) above shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor (ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 11-5-4).
(C) In any action or suit arising under any of the aforementioned divisions (A)(1) through (4), evidence of the general reputation of such place, of the inmates thereof and of those resorting thereto, shall be admissible for the purpose of proving the place to be a house of ill-fame, or of assignation, or that it is used for the purposes of fornication or adultery, and such evidence of the general reputation thereof shall be sufficient to make out a prima facie case.
(D) No person shall be subject to any fine or penalty for or on account of any testimony which he may give as a witness in any police or other court concerning his being an inmate or occupant of or being found in any bawdy house, house of ill-fame or in any gambling house.
('71 Code, § 7-1-37)