Clary then worked with national advocates to ensure that the protections afforded to homeless children by the Illinois statute were incorporated into the McKinney Act.

That Act uses the Illinois statute in defining homeless children as "individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence."

A Federal appeals court declared unconstitutional an Illinois statute and related regulations that require doctors' offices and clinics where first-trimester abortions are performed to be designed and equipped as if they were small hospitals.

"We do not want to exaggerate the importance or likely impact of our decision," Judge Posner wrote, noting that any effect the Illinois statute had in promoting Christianity was probably minimal.

The Illinois statute specified Good Friday.

The Court said that the Indiana law was more even-handed than the Illinois statute it had struck down.

The Comptroller is also charged, by Illinois statute, with certain additional duties.

The ordinance was based on an Illinois statute giving municipalities the authority to establish "Pleasure Driveways", eliminating their status as public roads.

In 1873, the United States Supreme Court upheld an Illinois statute prohibiting women from practicing law.

("Food Depository"-rather than "Food Bank"-was chosen because of an Illinois statute that then prohibited the use of the word "bank" in the name of non-banking entities.)