Except as otherwise authorized by the Firearm Concealed Carry Act, 430 ILCS 66/1 et seq.:
(A) A person commits the offense of unlawful use of weapons when he or she knowingly:
(1) Sells, manufactures, purchases, possesses or carries any bludgeon, black-jack, sling-shot, sand-club, sand-bag, metal knuckles or any knife, commonly referred to as a switchblade knife, which has a blade that opens automatically, by hand pressure applied to a button spring, or other device in handle of the knife; or
(2) Carries or possesses with intent to use the same unlawfully against another, a dagger, billy, dangerous knife, dirk, razor, stiletto, broken bottle, other piece of glass or any other dangerous or deadly weapon or instrument of like character;
(3) Carries on or about his or her person or in any vehicle, a tear gas gun projector or bomb or any object containing noxious liquid gas or substance;
(4) Carries, concealed in any vehicle or concealed on or about his or her person, except when his or her land or in his or her own abode or fixed place of business, any pistol, revolver or other firearm;
(5) Sets a spring gun;
(6) Possesses any device or attachment of any kind designed, used or intended for use in silencing the report of any firearm;
(7) Carries or possesses any firearm or other deadly weapon in any place which is licensed to sell intoxicating beverages, or at any public gathering held pursuant to a license issued by any governmental body or any public gathering at which an admission is charged, excluding a place where exhibition of unloaded firearms is conducted; or
(8) Carries or possesses in a vehicle or on or about his or her person within the corporate limits of a city, village or incorporated town, except when on his or her land or in his or her own abode, or fixed place of business, any loaded pistol, revolver or other firearm.
(B) The presence in an automobile other than a public omnibus of any weapon, instrument or substance referred to in this section is prima facie evidence that it is in the possession of, and is being carried by all persons occupying such automobile at the time such weapon, instrument or substance is found, except under the following circumstances:
(1) If such weapon, instrument or instrumentality is found upon the person of one of the occupants therein; or
(2) If such weapon, instrument or substance is found in an automobile operated for hire by a duly-licensed driver in the due, lawful and proper pursuit of his or her trade, then such presumption shall not apply to the driver.
(Prior Code, § 13-601) Penalty, see § 10.99
Cross-reference:
Concealed weapons, see § 130.26
Discharging firearms or other weapons in village; exceptions, see § 130.27