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720 ILCS 5/1-4 (2026)

Civil remedies preserved

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(720 ILCS 5/1-4) (from Ch. 38, par. 1-4)
    Sec. 1-4. Civil remedies preserved.
    This Code does not bar, suspend, or otherwise affect any right or liability to damages, penalty, forfeiture, or other remedy authorized by law to be recovered or enforced in a civil action, for any conduct which this Code makes punishable; and the civil injury is not merged in the offense.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 1983.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 2023–2024 · leading case: O'Malley v. Adams, 2023 IL App (5th) 210381 (Ill. App. Ct. 2023).
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O'Malley v. Adams, 2023 IL App (5th) 210381 (Ill. App. Ct. 2023). · cites it 3× “720 ILCS 5/1-4 (West 2020). It does not “bar, suspend, or otherwise affect any right or liability to damages, penalty, forfeiture, or other remedy authorized by law to be recovered or enforced in a civil action” for conduct the Criminal Code makes punishable, and the civil…”
Pacha v. Copart Inc., 2024 IL App (4th) 240625-U (Ill. App. Ct. 2024). “The affidavit cites, among other things, section 1-4 of the Criminal Code (720 ILCS 5/1-4 (West 2022)), entitled, “Civil Remedies Preserved,” which states the Criminal Code preserves a civil action from being merged into a criminal offense but does not create a civil action.”
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