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425 ILCS 55/1

(425 ILCS 55/1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 3501)

Sec. 1.

That all public buildings now in process of
construction or hereafter to be built or constructed, which may or shall be
used for churches, school houses, operas, theatres, lecture rooms, hotels,
public meetings, town halls, or which may or shall be used for any purpose
whereby a collection of people may be assembled together for religious
worship, amusement or instruction, shall be so built and constructed that
all doors leading from the main hall or place where said collection of
people may be assembled, or from the principal room which may be used for
any of the purposes aforesaid, shall be so swung upon their hinges and
constructed that said doors shall open outward; and that all means of
egress for the public from the main hall or principal room, and from the
building, shall be by means of doors which shall open outwards from the
main hall or building.

(Source: R.S. 1874, p. 786.)