The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Illinois
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Department of Public Health Act, 20 ILCS 2305; police power of the State
- Issued
- 2026-09-28 Sept. 28, 2026
- Effective
- standing (read as 2026-09-28)
- End
- standing
- In force
- Standing since Sept. 28, 2026 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally; owners of places (closure orders); all State and local officers (duty to enforce)
- Character
- statutory authority
- Collection
- Standing duties: Illinois DUT-IL
Operative words
The Department may, however, order a person or a group of persons to be quarantined or isolated or may order a place to be closed and made off limits to the public on an immediate basis without prior consent or court order if, in the reasonable judgment of the Department, immediate action is required to protect the public from a dangerously contagious or infectious disease.
Penalty
20 ILCS 2305/8.1 (DUT-IL-014): whoever violates or refuses to obey any rule or regulation of the Department is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor; every State's Attorney shall prosecute
What it required
Section 2(a) vests the Department with 'supreme authority in matters of quarantine and isolation,' directs it to 'take means to restrict and suppress' dangerously contagious diseases 'especially when existing in epidemic form,' and commands that 'all local boards of health, health authorities and officers, police officers, sheriffs and all other officers and employees of the state or any locality shall enforce the rules and regulations so adopted and orders issued by the Department'; sections 2(b)-(c) authorize orders of quarantine, isolation and closure of places, on an immediate basis where required, with consent or a court petition within 48 hours. Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).
Retrieval noteEvery Illinois COVID-19 executive order recited that it was issued 'consistent with the powers in public health laws' (IL-005 recitals). The Second District quoted section 2(b)-(c) as the closure and quarantine procedure the Department must follow and held that EO 2020-61's operating restrictions on restaurants 'were not tantamount to quarantine orders, isolation orders, or business-closure orders' (DUT-IL-010 ¶¶ 40-41). The whole-Act page on the new ilga.gov site would not render; the section page is saved.