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720 ILCS 5/33G-2 (2026)

Legislative declaration

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(720 ILCS 5/33G-2)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2027)
    Sec. 33G-2. Legislative declaration. The substantial harm inflicted on the people and economy of this State by pervasive violent street gangs and other forms of enterprise criminality, is legitimately a matter of grave concern to the people of this State who have a basic right to be protected from that criminal activity and to be given adequate remedies to redress its harms. Whereas the current laws of this State provide inadequate remedies, procedures and punishments, the Illinois General Assembly hereby gives the supplemental remedies of the Illinois Street Gang and Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Law full force and effect under law for the common good of this State and its people.
(Source: P.A. 104-10, eff. 6-16-25; 104-434, eff. 11-21-25.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 2024–2024 · leading case: People v. Polk, 2024 IL App (1st) 181933 (Ill. App. Ct. 2024).
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People v. Polk, 2024 IL App (1st) 181933 (Ill. App. Ct. 2024). · cites it 2× “720 ILCS 5/33G-2 (West 2012). ¶ 288 We also note that a construction similar to Polk’s has been rejected in the context of the federal RICO statute.”
People v. Spears, 2024 IL App (1st) 181491 (Ill. App. Ct. 2024). “720 ILCS 5/33G-2 (West 2012). Against that backdrop, the legislature imposed the enhancement for reasonably foreseeable unlawful deaths “in addition to any other penalty imposed by the court,” which may include up to life in prison for a racketeering violation.”
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