(A) (1) It is unlawful for a person of 16 or more years of age but less than 18 years of age to be present at or upon any public building, place, street or highway, between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. unless accompanied and supervised by a parent, legal guardian, or other adult, or engaged in a business or occupation which the laws of the state authorize a person less than 18 years of age to perform or in attendance at, or while traveling directly to or home from, school, place of employment, church, an activity sponsored by a not-for-profit community organization, or an activity involving the exercise of rights guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
(2) It is unlawful for a person less than 16 years of age to be present at or upon any public building, place, street or highway, between 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m, unless accompanied and supervised by a parent, legal guardian, or other adult, or engaged in a business or occupation which the laws of the state authorize a person less than 16 years of age to perform or in attendance at, or while traveling directly to or home from, school, place of employment, church, an activity sponsored by a not-for-profit community organization, or an activity involving the exercise of rights guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person having the legal care and custody of a child under 16 years of age to allow or permit such child to go or be upon any public street, alley or other public place in the city in the night time as restricted in division (A) of this section, except in the case of necessity.
(C) Every member of the police force while on duty is authorized to detain any such minor wilfully violating the provisions of this section until the parent or guardian of the child shall take him or her into custody, but such officer shall immediately upon taking custody of the child communicate with the parent or guardian.
(D) If it shall appear that any child taken into custody for a violation of this section is growing up in mendicancy or vagrancy or is incorrigible for lack of proper paternal care, or has no home, proper proceedings shall be taken to have such child placed in the care of a state institution as is provided by statute.
(E)
Any person convicted of violating any provision of this section shall be fined according to the Uniform Fine Schedule in § 10.99.
('72 Code, § 44.15) (Am. Ord. 802, passed 10-20-93; Am. Ord. 1153, passed 3-3-04; Am. Ord. 1326, passed 2-20-08
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Statutory reference:
Authority to impose curfew, see ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 11-1-5