A person commits disorderly conduct when he or she knowingly:
(A) Does any act in such unreasonable manner as to alarm or disturb another and to provoke a breach of the peace; such acts shall include but not be limited to the following:
(1) Making, aiding, or assisting in making any improper noise, riot, disturbance, breach of the peace, or diversion tending to a breach of the peace;
(2) Engaging in or aiding or abetting any fight, quarrel, or other disturbance;
(3) Disturbing any religious service, funeral, public or private meeting, or assembly of persons to the extent of prohibiting or significantly interfering with such event or provoking a breach of peace;
(4) Collecting in crowds for unlawful purposes;
(5) Loitering in a public place for the purpose of engaging in one or more of the following:
(a) Attempting to stop passerby or vehicles in a manner that alarms or disturbs others or interferes with their free right of passage;
(b) Soliciting drug sales;
(c) Performing business transactions involving the exchange of cash for an object having the appearance of a drug sale;
(d) Soliciting prostitution in the manner or form identified in the Illinois Criminal Code; or
(e) Fleeing an approaching police officer;
(6) Being intoxicated in public places or in any place to the annoyance and disturbance of other persons;
(7) Resisting or obstructing the performance of one known to be a police officer of any authorized act within the police officer's official capacity or impersonating a police officer;
(8) Assisting any person in custody of police to escape;
(9) Assembling with two or more other persons for the purpose of using force or violence to disturb the public peace;
(10) Failing to obey a lawful order of dispersal by a person known to be a peace officer, where three or more persons are committing acts of disorderly conduct in the immediate vicinity, which acts are likely to cause substantial harm or serious inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm;
(11) Lodging in or being in outhouses, sheds, barns, stables, or unoccupied buildings;
(12) Engaging in any act of theft in the manner or form identified in the Illinois Criminal Code;
(13) Giving any false alarm of fire or disturbance to any person or false information to any peace officer or fireman or any city officer;
(14) Harassment by telephone in the manner or form identified in the Illinois Criminal Code;
(15) Engaging in an act of public indecency in the manner or form identified in the Illinois Criminal Code;
(16) Engaging in conduct in a manner or form prohibited under the Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act;
(17) Engaging in criminal damage to property in a manner or form identified in the Illinois Criminal Code;
(18) Engaging in assault in the manner or form identified in the Illinois Criminal Code;
(19) Engaging in institutional vandalism or criminal defacement of property in the manner or form identified in the Illinois Criminal Code;
(20) Interfering or threatening to interfere with another person’s pursuit of a lawful occupation by acts of violence;
(21) Obstructing, either singly or together with another person or persons, the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic and refusal to clear such pedestrian traffic or refusal to clear such public way when ordered to do so by the Police Department or other lawful authority;
(22) Inciting, attempting to incite, or involvment in attempting to incite a riot or unlawful disturbance; and
(23) Using abusive language or threats toward any member of the Police Department, any other authorized city official who is engaged in the lawful performance of their duties, or toward any other person when such words have a direct tendency to cause acts of violence. Words merely causing displeasure, annoyance, or resentment are not prohibited.
('72 Code, § 44.01)
(B) Transmits or causes to be transmitted in any manner to another a false alarm to the effect that a bomb or other explosive of any nature is concealed in such place that its explosion would endanger human life, knowing at the time of such transmission that there is no reasonable ground for believing that such bomb or explosive is concealed in such place;
(C) Transmits or causes to be transmitted in any manner to any peace officer, public officer, or public employee a report to the effect that an offense will be committed, is being committed, or has been committed, knowing at the time of such transmission that there is no reasonable ground for believing that such an offense will be committed, is being committed, or has been committed;
(D) Enters upon the property of another, and for a lewd or unlawful purpose deliberately looks into a dwelling on the property through any window or other opening in it; or
(E) Transmits or causes to be transmitted in any manner to the Police Department or any privately- owned and operated ambulance service, a false request for an ambulance, emergency medical technician- ambulance, or emergency medical technician-paramedic knowing at the time there is no reasonable ground for believing that such assistance is required.
(Am. Ord. 1629, passed 3-15-17) Penalty, see § 132.99
Statutory reference:
Disorderly conduct, see ILCS Ch. 720, Act 5, § 26-1