(740 ILCS 10/3) (from Ch. 38, par. 60-3)
Sec. 3.
Every person shall be deemed to have committed a violation of this
Act who shall:
(1) Make any contract with, or engage in any combination or conspiracy
with, any other person who is, or but for a prior agreement would be, a
competitor of such person:
a. for the purpose or with the effect of fixing, controlling, or
maintaining the price or rate charged for any commodity sold or bought by
the parties thereto, or the fee charged or paid for any service performed
or received by the parties thereto;
b. fixing, controlling, maintaining, limiting, or discontinuing the
production, manufacture, mining, sale or supply of any commodity, or the
sale or supply of any service, for the purpose or with the effect stated in
paragraph a. of subsection (1);
c. allocating or dividing customers, territories, supplies, sales, or
markets, functional or geographical, for any commodity or service; or
(2) By contract, combination, or conspiracy with one or more other
persons unreasonably restrain trade or commerce; or
(3) Establish, maintain, use, or attempt to acquire monopoly power over
any substantial part of trade or commerce of this State for the purpose of
excluding competition or of controlling, fixing, or maintaining prices in
such trade or commerce; or
(4) Lease or make a sale or contract for sale of goods, wares,
merchandise, machinery, supplies, or other commodities, or services (including
master antenna television service),
whether patented or unpatented, for use, consumption, enjoyment, or resale,
or fix a price charged thereof, or discount from, or rebate upon, such
price, on the condition, agreement, or understanding that the lessee or
purchaser thereof shall not use or deal in the goods, wares, merchandise,
machinery, supplies, or other commodity or service (including cable television
service or cable television relay service), of a competitor or
competitors of the lessor or seller, where the effect of such lease, sale
or contract for such sale or such condition, agreement, or understanding
may be to substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in
any line of commerce; or
(5) Being an employee, officer or agent of any foreign government,
or an employee, officer or agent of a corporation or other entity which does
business with or seeks to do business with any foreign government or instrumentality
thereof; enforce, attempt to enforce, agree to or take action to forward the aims
of, any discriminatory practice by the foreign government which is based on race,
color, creed, national ancestry or sex or on ethnic or religious grounds, where such
conduct, course of conduct, or agreement takes place in whole or in part within
the United States and affects business in this State.
(Source: P.A. 82-219.)
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