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720 ILCS 5/11-14.3 (2026)

Promoting prostitution

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(720 ILCS 5/11-14.3)
    Sec. 11-14.3. Promoting prostitution.
    (a) Any person who knowingly performs any of the following acts commits promoting prostitution:
        (1) advances prostitution as defined in Section
    
11-0.1;
        (2) profits from prostitution by:
            (A) compelling a person to become a person
        
engaged in the sex trade;
            (B) arranging or offering to arrange a situation
        
in which a person may practice prostitution; or
            (C) any means other than those described in
        
subparagraph (A) or (B), including from a person who patronizes a person engaged in the sex trade. This paragraph (C) does not apply to a person engaged in prostitution who is under 18 years of age. A person cannot be convicted of promoting prostitution under this paragraph (C) if the practice of prostitution underlying the offense consists exclusively of the accused's own acts of prostitution under Section 11-14 of this Code.
    (b) Sentence.
        (1) A violation of subdivision (a)(1) is a Class 4
    
felony, unless committed within 1,000 feet of real property comprising a school, in which case it is a Class 3 felony. A second or subsequent violation of subdivision (a)(1), or any combination of convictions under subdivision (a)(1), (a)(2)(A), or (a)(2)(B) and Section 11-14 (prostitution), 11-14.1 (solicitation of a sexual act), 11-14.4 (promoting commercial sexual exploitation of a child), 11-15 (soliciting for a person engaged in the sex trade), 11-15.1 (soliciting for a sexually exploited child), 11-16 (pandering), 11-17 (keeping a place of prostitution), 11-17.1 (keeping a place of commercial sexual exploitation of a child), 11-18 (patronizing a person engaged in the sex trade), 11-18.1 (patronizing a sexually exploited child), 11-19 (pimping), 11-19.1 (juvenile pimping or aggravated juvenile pimping), or 11-19.2 (exploitation of a child), is a Class 3 felony.
        (2) A violation of subdivision (a)(2)(A) or (a)(2)(B)
    
is a Class 4 felony, unless committed within 1,000 feet of real property comprising a school, in which case it is a Class 3 felony.
        (3) A violation of subdivision (a)(2)(C) is a Class 4
    
felony, unless committed within 1,000 feet of real property comprising a school, in which case it is a Class 3 felony. A second or subsequent violation of subdivision (a)(2)(C), or any combination of convictions under subdivision (a)(2)(C) and subdivision (a)(1), (a)(2)(A), or (a)(2)(B) of this Section (promoting prostitution), 11-14 (prostitution), 11-14.1 (solicitation of a sexual act), 11-14.4 (promoting commercial sexual exploitation of a child), 11-15 (soliciting for a person engaged in the sex trade), 11-15.1 (soliciting for a sexually exploited child), 11-16 (pandering), 11-17 (keeping a place of prostitution), 11-17.1 (keeping a place of commercial sexual exploitation of a child), 11-18 (patronizing a person engaged in the sex trade), 11-18.1 (patronizing a sexually exploited child), 11-19 (pimping), 11-19.1 (juvenile pimping or aggravated juvenile pimping), or 11-19.2 (exploitation of a child), is a Class 3 felony.
    If the court imposes a fine under this subsection (b), it shall be collected and distributed to the Specialized Services for Survivors of Human Trafficking Fund in accordance with Section 5-9-1.21 of the Unified Code of Corrections.
(Source: P.A. 103-1071, eff. 7-1-25.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2014–2021 · leading case: Spencer v. Pistorius, 605 F. App'x 559 (7th Cir. 2015).
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Spencer v. Pistorius, 605 F. App'x 559 (7th Cir. 2015). · cites it 3× “” See 720 ILCS 5/11-16 (current version at 720 ILCS 5/11-14.3 (2015)). State prosecutors never pursued the pandering charge, but Spencer was convicted in state court of possessing cocaine with intent to deliver, see 720 ILCS *561 570/401, based on drugs and other evidence found…”
People v. Clark, 2014 IL App (1st) 130222 (Ill. App. Ct. 2014). · cites it 2× “720 ILCS 5/11-14.3(a)(1) & 720 ILCS 5/11-0.”
People v. Tawfeeq, 2020 IL App (2d) 200052-U (Ill. App. Ct. 2020). · cites it 2× “50(a)(1), aggravated battery (720 ILCS 5/12-4(b)(8) (West 2016)), unlawful restraint (720 ILCS 5/10-3(a) (West 2020 IL App (2d) 200052-U 2016)), and promoting prostitution (720 ILCS 5/11-14.3 (West 2016)). On appeal, defendant makes three arguments: First, defendant argues (1)…”
People v. Clark, 2014 IL App (1st) 130222 (Ill. App. Ct. 2014). · cites it 2× “720 ILCS 5/11-14.3(a)(1) & 720 ILCS 5/11-0.”
People v. Clark, 2014 IL App (1st) 130222 (Ill. App. Ct. 2014). · cites it 2× “720 ILCS 5/11-14.3(a)(1), 11-0.1 (West 2010).”
People v. Freeman, 2021 IL App (4th) 190619-U (Ill. App. Ct. 2021). “Freeman on or about the 22nd day of July, 2014 in the County of McLean, State of Illinois, committed the offense of promoting prostitution in that the defendant advanced prostitution in that he arranged a meeting of persons for the purpose of prostitution *** in violation of 720…”
People v. Clark, 2014 IL App (1st) 130222 (Ill. App. Ct. 2014). “720 ILCS 5/11-14.3(a)(1), 11-0.1 (West 2010).”
— 720 ILCS 5/11-14.3(a)(1) — 4 cases
People v. Clark, 2014 IL App (1st) 130222 (Ill. App. Ct. 2014). “720 ILCS 5/11-14.3(a)(1) & 720 ILCS 5/11-0.”
People v. Clark, 2014 IL App (1st) 130222 (Ill. App. Ct. 2014). “720 ILCS 5/11-14.3(a)(1) & 720 ILCS 5/11-0.”
People v. Clark, 2014 IL App (1st) 130222 (Ill. App. Ct. 2014). “720 ILCS 5/11-14.3(a)(1), 11-0.1 (West 2010).”
People v. Clark, 2014 IL App (1st) 130222 (Ill. App. Ct. 2014). “720 ILCS 5/11-14.3(a)(1), 11-0.1 (West 2010).”
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