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720 ILCS 5/25-5 (2026)

Unlawful participation in streetgang related activity

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(720 ILCS 5/25-5) (was 720 ILCS 5/25-1.1)
    Sec. 25-5. Unlawful participation in streetgang related activity.
    (a) A person commits unlawful participation in streetgang related activity when he or she knowingly commits any act in furtherance of streetgang related activity as defined in Section 10 of the Illinois Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act after having been:
        (1) sentenced to probation, conditional discharge, or
    
supervision for a criminal offense with a condition of that sentence being to refrain from direct or indirect contact with a streetgang member or members;
        (2) released on bond for any criminal offense with a
    
condition of that bond being to refrain from direct or indirect contact with a streetgang member or members;
        (3) ordered by a judge in any non-criminal proceeding
    
to refrain from direct or indirect contact with a streetgang member or members; or
        (4) released from the Illinois Department of
    
Corrections on a condition of parole or mandatory supervised release that he or she refrain from direct or indirect contact with a streetgang member or members.
    (b) Unlawful participation in streetgang related activity is a Class A misdemeanor.
    (c) (Blank).
(Source: P.A. 100-279, eff. 1-1-18.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases, 2013–2018 · leading case: People v. Rubalcava, 2013 IL App (2d) 120396 (Ill. App. Ct. 2013).
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People v. Rubalcava, 2013 IL App (2d) 120396 (Ill. App. Ct. 2013). · cites it 4× “OPINION ¶1 In November 2011, after a bench trial, defendant, Artemio Rubalcava, was convicted of unlawful contact with streetgang members (720 ILCS 5/25-5(a)(3) (West 2010)) and sentenced to 12 months of conditional discharge.”
People v. Berrios, 2018 IL App (2d) 150824 (Ill. App. Ct. 2018). · cites it 2× “OPINION ¶1 Section 25-5(a)(3) of the Criminal Code of 2012 (Code) (720 ILCS 5/25-5(a)(3) (West 2012)) makes it a misdemeanor offense for a person to have contact with street gang members after having been, inter alia, “ordered by a judge in any non-criminal proceeding to refrain…”
People v. Berrios, 2018 IL App (2d) 150824 (Ill. App. Ct. 2018). · cites it 3× “" 720 ILCS 5/25-5(a), (b) (West 2012). Under section 10 of the Act, a street gang member is anyone "who actually and in fact belongs to a gang.”
People v. Rubalcava, 2013 IL App (2d) 120396 (Ill. App. Ct. 2013). · cites it 3× “OPINION ¶1 In November 2011, after a bench trial, defendant, Artemio Rubalcava, was convicted of unlawful contact with streetgang members (720 ILCS 5/25-5(a)(3) (West 2010)) and sentenced to 12 months of conditional discharge.”
— 720 ILCS 5/25-5(a) — 1 case
People v. Berrios, 2018 IL App (2d) 150824 (Ill. App. Ct. 2018). “" 720 ILCS 5/25-5(a), (b) (West 2012). Under section 10 of the Act, a street gang member is anyone "who actually and in fact belongs to a gang.”
— 720 ILCS 5/25-5(a)(3) — 4 cases
People v. Rubalcava, 2013 IL App (2d) 120396 (Ill. App. Ct. 2013). “OPINION ¶1 In November 2011, after a bench trial, defendant, Artemio Rubalcava, was convicted of unlawful contact with streetgang members (720 ILCS 5/25-5(a)(3) (West 2010)) and sentenced to 12 months of conditional discharge.”
People v. Berrios, 2018 IL App (2d) 150824 (Ill. App. Ct. 2018). “OPINION ¶1 Section 25-5(a)(3) of the Criminal Code of 2012 (Code) (720 ILCS 5/25-5(a)(3) (West 2012)) makes it a misdemeanor offense for a person to have contact with street gang members after having been, inter alia, “ordered by a judge in any non-criminal proceeding to refrain…”
People v. Rubalcava, 2013 IL App (2d) 120396 (Ill. App. Ct. 2013). “OPINION ¶1 In November 2011, after a bench trial, defendant, Artemio Rubalcava, was convicted of unlawful contact with streetgang members (720 ILCS 5/25-5(a)(3) (West 2010)) and sentenced to 12 months of conditional discharge.”
People v. Berrios, 2018 IL App (2d) 150824 (Ill. App. Ct. 2018). “" 720 ILCS 5/25-5(a), (b) (West 2012). Under section 10 of the Act, a street gang member is anyone "who actually and in fact belongs to a gang.”
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