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625 ILCS 5/1-126 (2026)

Highway

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(625 ILCS 5/1-126) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 1-126)
    Sec. 1-126. Highway. The entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel or located on public school property.
(Source: P.A. 92-780, eff. 8-6-02.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 15 cases (7 in the last 5 years), 1995–2026 · leading case: People v. Relwani, 2019 IL 123385 (Ill. 2019).
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People v. Relwani, 2019 IL 123385 (Ill. 2019). · cites it 5× “See 625 ILCS 5/1-126 (West 2016) (defining "highway" for purposes of the Illinois Vehicle Code).”
People v. Relwani, 2019 IL 123385 (Ill. 2019). · cites it 4× “See 625 ILCS 5/1-126 (West 2016) (defining “highway” for purposes of the Illinois Vehicle Code).”
Cohen v. Chicago Park Dist., 2017 IL 121800 (Ill. 2017). “" Under the Highway Code, roads and streets are types of highways-highway being the generic term for "any public way for vehicular travel which has been laid out in pursuance of any law of this State.”
People v. Relwani, 2018 IL App (3d) 170201 (Ill. App. Ct. 2018). · cites it 3× “See 625 ILCS 5/1-126 (West 2016) (defining the term, "[h]ighway," as used in the Vehicle Code); Helt , 384 Ill.”
People v. Redmond, 2024 IL 129201 (Ill. 2024). “” 625 ILCS 5/1-126 (West 2020). - 17 - offenses themselves.”
Boub v. Twp. of Wayne, 702 N.E.2d 535 (Ill. 1998). “" 625 ILCS 5/1-126 (West 1996). The Vehicle Code defines "roadway" as "[t]hat portion of a highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder" (625 ILCS 5/1-179 (West 1996)), and it defines "street" as "[t]he entire width…”
People v. Rodriguez, 657 N.E.2d 699 (Ill. App. Ct. 1995). “2d 489 ; 625 ILCS 5/1-126 (West 1994).) Because a privately owned gas station is not a passageway, road, or street, nor maintained by the *705 public, I conclude that a gas station is not a "public way.”
People v. Howard, 2022 IL App (3d) 210134 (Ill. App. Ct. 2022). “” 625 ILCS 5/1-126 (West 2020). However, “[a] parking lot that is publicly maintained and open to use by the public for vehicular travel will constitute a ‘highway,’ even if the parking lot is on privately owned property.”
Cohen v. Chicago Park Dist., 2017 IL 121800 (Ill. 2018). “” 605 ILCS 5/2-202 (West 2012); see also 625 ILCS 5/1-126, 1-179, 1-201 (West 2012) (setting out similar definitions under the Illinois Vehicle Code).”
People v. Redmond, 2024 IL 129201 (Ill. 2024). “” 625 ILCS 5/1-126 (West 2020). - 17 - offenses themselves.”
Cohen v. Chicago Park Dist., 2017 IL 121800 (Ill. 2018). “” 605 ILCS 5/2-202 (West 2012); see also 625 ILCS 5/1-126, 1-179, 1-201 (West 2012) (setting out similar definitions under the Illinois Vehicle Code).”
People v. Clark, 2021 IL App (4th) 190535-U (Ill. App. Ct. 2021). “See 625 ILCS 5/1-126 (West 2018) (defining highway, in part, as “[t]he entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel”).”
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