104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB5024
 
Introduced 2/10/2026, by Rep. Emanuel "Chris" Welch
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
65 ILCS 5/11-5-12 new
    Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that a detention center facility may not be located, constructed, or operated within 1,500 feet of the property boundaries of any school, day care center, day care home, cemetery, public park, forest preserve, public housing, private residence, or place of religious worship, regardless of address. Defines "detention center facility" and "federal immigration authority". Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR
 
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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by 
5adding Section 11-5-12 as follows:
 
6    (65 ILCS 5/11-5-12 new)
7    Sec. 11-5-12. Detention center facilities. 
8    (a) In this Section:
9    "Detention center facility" means any one or more of the 
10following:
11        (1) a facility that is owned, leased, operated, or 
12    otherwise controlled by a federal immigration authority 
13    and that has as its primary use the occupation under 
14    restraint or security of individuals detained by or in the 
15    custody of a federal immigration authority;
16        (2) a facility where individuals who have been 
17    detained by or are in the custody of a federal immigration 
18    authority are processed for deportation from the United 
19    States; or
20        (3) a facility where individuals who have been 
21    detained by or in the custody of a federal immigration 
22    authority are temporarily held while their citizenship 
23    status is determined.
 
 
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1    "Federal immigration authority" means the United States 
2Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the United States Customs 
3and Border Protection, the United States Department of 
4Homeland Security, or any other federal agency exercising 
5immigration enforcement authority under the laws of the United 
6States or any entity that is under contract with such an agency 
7to perform immigration enforcement activities.
8    (b) A detention center facility may not be located, 
9constructed, or operated within 1,500 feet of the property 
10boundaries of any school, day care center, day care home, 
11cemetery, public park, forest preserve, public housing, 
12private residence, or place of religious worship, regardless 
13of address. 
 
14    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
15becoming law.