Illinois

Illinois only licenses concealed carry (Firearm Concealed Carry Act, 430 ILCS 66) atop a FOID card; carrying a handgun visibly in public is prohibited generally under the Unlawful Use of Weapons statute (720 ILCS 5/24-1) outside one's own home/property/business. This is uncontroversial and consistently reported across sources; I did not reach an Illinois State Police .gov page directly this session.

The Illinois Firearm Concealed Carry Act (430 ILCS 66/65) has no specific prohibition for places of worship. A church can prohibit carry using Illinois's standard posted-sign rule that applies to private property generally.

430 ILCS 66/65 bars concealed carry only where an establishment derives more than 50% of its gross receipts from on-premises alcohol sales in the prior 3 months — essentially the bar/restaurant line the question itself draws. A genuine restaurant clears this easily; a true bar/tavern does not. Signs (4"x6") must be posted at the prohibited establishment's entrance.

Illinois's Firearm Concealed Carry Act (430 ILCS 66/65) lists 23 specific prohibited-area categories (schools, courts, transit, bars deriving >50% receipts from alcohol, parks/playgrounds under a municipality or park district, etc.) — I reviewed the full official text and none mention boats, vessels, or open waterways; item (3) even carves out an express exception allowing carry on DNR-regulated park trails/bikeways and hunting areas. The one real catch: item (8) bars carry on 'any bus, train, or form of transportation paid for in whole or in part with public funds,' which would reach a public ferry, though not a private/recreational boat.

The Firearm Concealed Carry Act (430 ILCS 66/65) lists roughly two dozen prohibited areas, including any building/parking area under the control of an officer of the executive or legislative branch of state government, and separately a courthouse — both off-limits to license holders statewide, regardless of whether the specific office screens visitors. A firearm may only be left locked in a vehicle in the parking area.

The Firearm Concealed Carry Act, 430 ILCS 66/65, lists "any building, real property, and parking area under the control of a public or private community college, college, or university" as a prohibited area for licensees, with only a narrow locked-vehicle exception in unposted lots.

Illinois's Firearm Concealed Carry Act (430 ILCS 66/65) requires a non-residential private property owner to post the specific approved sign to prohibit concealed carry; absent that posted sign, carry by a valid licensee is presumptively lawful in an ordinary business.

Verified directly from the official Illinois Compiled Statutes: 430 ILCS 66/65(a-10) — 'The owner of private real property of any type may prohibit the carrying of concealed firearms on the property under his or her control. The owner must post a sign ... indicating that firearms are prohibited on the property, UNLESS the property is a private residence.' This is an explicit opt-out (default-allow) model that expressly extends to private residences.

Illinois's Firearm Concealed Carry Act (430 ILCS 66/65) lists 'any airport buildings, property, and parking areas' (not just the post-security area) as a place where a concealed carry licensee may not carry — confirmed independently by both usacarry.com's prohibited-places summary and Wikipedia's 'Gun laws in Illinois' article, which both give the same unqualified full-airport-property restriction alongside schools, government buildings, and other listed 'no carry' zones.

Illinois requires a Concealed Carry License (CCL) to have a loaded or immediately-accessible firearm in a vehicle (720 ILCS 5/24-1.6, Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon). A FOID-card holder without a CCL may still transport a firearm in a vehicle if it is UNLOADED and enclosed in a case (720 ILCS 5/24-2 transport exemption). I was not able to get a live fetch of ilga.gov this session (repeated 404s/DNS errors); this reflects the well-established post-Moore v. Madigan / 2013 Firearm Concealed Carry Act framework rather than a page read today, so treat as solid-but-not-freshly-verified.

Firearm Concealed Carry Act, 430 ILCS 66/65(a)(7): licensees may not carry on 'a public or private hospital or hospital affiliate, mental health facility, or nursing home,' including parking areas. Applies identically to public and private facilities.

Illinois requires a concealed carry license. 430 ILCS 66/65 lists ~23 prohibited locations (schools, government buildings, transit, parks, etc.); rest areas are not among them, and the Act expressly allows carrying/transporting within a vehicle even in restricted parking areas. Verified against the statute text directly.

Under the Firearm Concealed Carry Act (430 ILCS 66), a licensee who is asked by a police officer whether they are carrying has a duty to inform the officer (verbally or by showing the license); no proactive duty absent that question. Could not pull the exact subsection text directly (ilga.gov and Justia/FindLaw mirrors were unreachable), so this rests on a secondary compilation (Wikipedia's Illinois gun-law summary) rather than confirmed primary statute text — recommend the app verify 430 ILCS 66/10 directly before publishing this one.

430 ILCS 66/40(b) and Illinois State Police: non-residents may apply for an Illinois Concealed Carry License only if they reside in a state ISP has determined has "substantially similar" firearm laws — as of this research that list is limited to Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, Nevada, Texas, and Virginia.

720 ILCS 5/24-1(a)(4),(10),(c)(1.5),(4) bans firearm possession on K-12 property AND extends the ban to any person or vehicle on a public way within 1,000 feet of a school — Illinois codifies the federal buffer directly into state law. There is no blanket exception for Illinois's own concealed carry licensees; the only carve-outs are for a broken-down, inaccessible, or unloaded-and-cased firearm, which functionally forecloses ordinary licensed carry anywhere in the zone.

Illinois's Firearm Concealed Carry Act (430 ILCS 66/65) uses the standard default (carry allowed unless the property posts a sign prohibiting it) confirmed via a summary source, but I was not able to fetch the actual penalty subsection (d) live in this session. My understanding, not independently re-verified here, is that a first violation of a posted sign is a civil law violation (fine only, not criminal) while a second or subsequent violation becomes a Class B misdemeanor — meaning the answer genuinely depends on whether it's a repeat violation. Treat the 'first offense is civil, repeat offense is criminal' structure as unconfirmed pending a direct statute read.

430 ILCS 66/90 (Firearm Concealed Carry Act): "The regulation, licensing, possession, registration, and transportation of handguns and ammunition for handguns by licensees are exclusive powers and functions of the State," expressly limiting home-rule authority (relevant for Chicago/Cook County). Note: this is specific to concealed carry — Chicago/Cook County separately retain some home-rule authority over other firearm topics like assault-weapon ownership under the FOID Act, which is a distinct statute from the concealed-carry preemption addressed here.

Illinois currently has NO enacted polling-place-specific firearm ban. HB0034 (2026 session), which would add new Election Code § 29-25 making it a Class C misdemeanor to carry at a polling place, has passed both chambers per one tracker but shows a March 27, 2026 re-referral to Rules Committee and is not yet confirmed signed into law as of this research. Separately, the Firearm Concealed Carry Act's 22-item prohibited-locations list (430 ILCS 66/65) does NOT include polling places by name — but item 1 covers 'elementary/secondary school buildings, real property, and parking areas,' so a permit holder is barred wherever the specific polling site is a school (very common) even without a dedicated polling-place law. Outcome genuinely depends on venue and on HB0034's final status.

15-round limit for handguns, 10-round limit for long guns (720 ILCS 5/24-1.10, enacted by the Protect Illinois Communities Act, effective Jan. 2023). Seventh Circuit upheld the law 2-1 in Barnett v. Raoul on July 9, 2026. SCOTUS granted cert. June 30, 2026 in the consolidated Viramontes v. Cook County / Grant v. Higgins cases addressing whether semi-automatic 'assault weapons' bans are constitutional (decision pending, argument expected fall 2026); outcome could also affect magazine bans. Currently enforced.

Firearms Restraining Order Act, 430 ILCS 67 (2019). Petitioners: family members, household members, and law enforcement.

Illinois bans suppressors and machine guns outright regardless of federal registration, and bans SBR/SBS for all but two narrow non-NFA-based categories. 720 ILCS 5/24-1(a)(6) makes possessing a silencing device a Class 3 felony with no NFA-compliance exception; 720 ILCS 5/24-1(a)(7)(i) bans machine guns, also with no federal-registration exception. SBR/SBS are banned under 24-1(a)(7)(ii), but 720 ILCS 5/24-2 carves out an exemption ONLY for ATF Curio & Relics FFL licensees and bona fide military reenactment group members — an ordinary civilian who completed a Form 4/NFA transfer without a C&R license still cannot lawfully possess an SBR. Illinois is repeatedly identified as one of a small group of states plus D.C. that flatly ban civilian suppressor possession.

No SYG statute; case law (People v. Rodriguez, 187 Ill. App. 3d 484) establishes no duty to retreat when lawfully present.

430 ILCS 65/3(a-10) requires a private seller to verify the transferee's FOID card is currently valid with Illinois State Police before completing a transfer (functionally a background check). Exceptions: transfers among immediate family (spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, in-law), dealer-processed sales, transfers by court order, and gunsmith repair loans.

720 ILCS 5/24-1(a)(6) makes possessing a firearm silencer a Class 3 felony (Class 2 in certain locations) with no exception for federal NFA registration; the only carve-out, 720 ILCS 5/24-2(g-5), covers federally licensed manufacturers' business activity, not ordinary civilians.

720 ILCS 5/24-1(a)(7)(i) bans machine-gun possession outright with no NFA-registration exception; 720 ILCS 5/24-2(c)(5) exempts only federally licensed manufacturers acting within their business, so a lawfully NFA-transferred pre-1986 machine gun is still illegal to possess in Illinois.

Barred generally under 720 ILCS 5/24-1(a)(7)(ii), but 720 ILCS 5/24-2(c)(7) (Public Act 97-0936, 2013) carves out anyone holding a federal Curios & Relics license or an active member of a bona fide, nationally recognized military reenacting group -- narrower than simple NFA registration.

720 ILCS 5/24-1(a)(7)(ii) bans short-barreled shotguns outright; unlike short-barreled rifles, the Curios & Relics/reenactor exception in 720 ILCS 5/24-2(c)(7) does not extend to shotguns.

AOWs and destructive devices may be owned in Illinois but only with proper federal licensing and what one NFA-focused legal summary calls 'extremely rare' state approval; separately, 720 ILCS 5/24-1(a)(7)(iii) flatly bans grenades, bombs, and similar explosive-ordnance items regardless of federal status.