{"data":{"id":"us-il/720-ilcs-5-11-18","jurisdiction":"us-il","citation":"720 ILCS 5/11-18","heading":"Patronizing a person engaged in the sex trade.","body":"(a) Any person who knowingly performs any of the following acts with a person not his or her spouse commits patronizing a person engaged in the sex trade:\n(1) Engages in an act of sexual penetration as defined in Section 11-0.1 of this Code with a person engaged in the sex trade; or\n(2) Enters or remains in a place of prostitution with intent to engage in an act of sexual penetration as defined in Section 11-0.1 of this Code; or\n(3) Engages in any touching or fondling with a person engaged in the sex trade of the sex organs of one person by the other person, with the intent to achieve sexual arousal or gratification.\n(b) Sentence.\nPatronizing a person engaged in the sex trade is a Class 4 felony, unless committed within 1,000 feet of real property comprising a school, in which case it is a Class 3 felony. A person convicted of a second or subsequent violation of this Section, or of any combination of such number of convictions under this Section and Sections 11-14 (prostitution), 11-14.1 (solicitation of a sexual act), 11-14.3 (promoting prostitution), 11-14.4 (promoting commercial sexual exploitation of a child), 11-15 (soliciting for a person engaged in the sex trade), 11-15.1 (soliciting for a sexually exploited child), 11-16 (pandering), 11-17 (keeping a place of prostitution), 11-17.1 (keeping a place of commercial sexual exploitation of a child), 11-18.1 (patronizing a sexually exploited child), 11-19 (pimping), 11-19.1 (juvenile pimping or aggravated juvenile pimping), or 11-19.2 (exploitation of a child) of this Code, is guilty of a Class 3 felony. If the court imposes a fine under this subsection (b), it shall be collected and distributed to the Specialized Services for Survivors of Human Trafficking Fund in accordance with Section 5-9-1.21 of the Unified Code of Corrections.\n(c) (Blank).","path":["CHAPTER 720 CRIMINAL OFFENSES","Criminal Code of 2012."],"source_url":"https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ILCS/details?ActID=1876\u0026ChapterID=53\u0026ChapAct=FullText\u0026Print=True","current_through":"at least Public Act 104-790","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-15T04:46:41Z","sha256":"9f01d5435f57d6a150b4cde7408253b23df0eefb7dbb5bf1ddbacb6d206e756f","source_id":"us-il","stale":false,"prev":"us-il/720-ilcs-5-11-17.1","next":"us-il/720-ilcs-5-11-18.1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}