(A) Definition. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
LOITERING. Remaining idle in essentially 1 location, and includes the concepts of spending time idly, loafing or walking about aimlessly, and shall also include the colloquial expression “hanging around.”
(B) Prohibited acts.
(1) No person shall loiter in a public place in such a manner as to:
(a) Create or cause to be created a danger of a breach of the peace;
(b) Create or cause to be created any disturbance or annoyance to the comfort and repose of any person;
(c) Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles; or
(d) Obstruct, molest, or interfere with any person lawfully in any public place.
(2) This division shall include the making of unsolicited remarks of an offensive, disgusting, or insulting nature or which are calculated to annoy or disturb the person to whom, or in whose hearing, they are made.
(C) Request to leave. Whenever the presence of any person in any public place is causing or is likely to cause any of the conditions enumerated in division (B), any police officer may order that person to leave that place. Any person who shall refuse to leave after being ordered to do so by a police officer shall be guilty of a violation of this section.
(Prior Code, § 9-7)
Statutory reference:
Disorderly conduct, see ILCS Ch. 720, Act 5, §§ 26-1 et seq.