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Illinois
Below you are links to informational
sites related to the Illinois Gun laws and regulations. (
Legal lawyer stuff as follows:
Center-fire- Greenfield Industries are not responsible nor
endorses any information found on listed links. blah, blah,
blah. You get the picture. Take everything you read with a
grain of salt.) We have even included some
comical links such as the
Brady Campaign , because everybody enjoys a little
fictional reading from time to time.
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Indians hunted in Illinois
as far back as 5000 B.C. and today you can still view the
remains of their civilization at places such as Chahokia
Mounds-North America's largest and most valuable prehistoric
earthnwork relic. Dickson Mounds Indian Museum near Lewiston
features special exhibits which chronicle the Indian's
valuable place in Illinois history.
The first European explorers in Illinois were Jacques
Marquette and Louis Jolliet, Frenchmen who paddled by
birchbark canoe along the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers.
They traveled the length of the state-from what is now Chicago
to the southernmost reaches of Illinois.
More French explorers followed, building military outposts and
establishing a fur trading empire with local Indians. In 1673,
at the close of the French and Indian War, the Treaty of Paris
ceded to England all lands France had claimed east of the
Mississippi River, except for New Orleans in Louisiana. The
British continued to control what is now Illinois until 1778
when George Rogers Clark, a Revolutionary War hero, and his
band of American colonists captured Fort Kaskaskia. The
Illinois country became a possession of Virginia until 1787
when it joined the Northwest Territory under the government of
the United States. Kaskaskia became Illinois' first capitol in
1818. Two years later the seat of Illinois government was
moved to Vandalia. In 1839, largely through the efforts of a
young legislator named Abraham Lincoln, the capitol was again
moved-this time to Springfield, where it is now open to the
public as an historic site. The Capitol in use today dates
back to 1868, when ground was broken for its construction.
Although the General Assembly moved in eight years later in
1876, it took 20 years to complete the building at a cost of
$4.5 million. During 1988, Illinois celebrated the centennial
of the completion of the Statehouse.
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Our
Heavy weight Concealed Weapon Permit
badge comes with a wallet clip back and your
multicolored State seal affixed.
The CCW badges are full size professional quality badges
manufactured by Smith and Warren, one of the top suppliers for
Law Enforcement agencies. The Concealed Carry Permit badges
can be carried in a wallet, ID case or will easily fit in a
badge belt holder or neck holder to readily Identify
yourself to Law Enforcement as a Legally licensed Handgun
owner.