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  "attribution": "The Insurance Investigator's Playbook — theclaimsplaybook.net",
  "jurisdiction": "IL",
  "name": "Illinois",
  "question": "Does recording a conversation in Illinois require one party's consent or all parties' consent?",
  "rule": "all-party",
  "ruleLabel": "All-party consent",
  "commonlyClassifiedAs": "all-party (two-party) consent",
  "commonLabelIsMisleading": false,
  "summary": "Illinois is an all-party consent jurisdiction: every participant must consent before the conversation may be recorded.",
  "nuance": "Narrower than 'all-party' sounds. Since the 2014 rewrite that followed People v. Clark, § 14-2 reaches only a PRIVATE conversation — one carrying a reasonable expectation that it is not being intercepted — and only when recorded 'in a surreptitious manner'. It is not a flat bar on recording.",
  "nuanceIsEditorial": true,
  "nuanceVerified": false,
  "casesCited": [
    {
      "name": "People v. Clark",
      "verdict": "verified",
      "citation": "2014 IL 115776",
      "allCitations": [
        "2014 IL 115776"
      ],
      "court": "Illinois Supreme Court",
      "year": 2014,
      "url": "https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2671271/people-v-clark/",
      "holdingVerified": false
    }
  ],
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  "caseHoldingsVerified": false,
  "caseLawNote": "Each decision named in `nuance` was checked against a court record on CourtListener: it exists and carries the citation given. What the decision is said to HOLD is our reading and has not been verified.",
  "statute": "720 Ill. Comp. Stat. 5/14-2(a)",
  "federalFloor": {
    "statute": "18 U.S.C. § 2511(2)(d)",
    "rule": "one-party",
    "url": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511",
    "note": "Federal law permits recording with one party's consent unless the recording is made to commit a crime or tort. Federal law is the FLOOR; a state may and many do require more. Where an interstate call touches two states with different rules, the safe assumption is the stricter one."
  },
  "verification": {
    "status": "verified",
    "statusLabel": "Verified against the government source",
    "verifiedOn": "2026-09-21",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ILCS/details?MajorTopic=&Chapter=&ActName=Criminal%20Code%20of%202012.&ActID=1876&ChapterID=53&ChapAct=720+ILCS+5%2F&SeqStart=34200000&SeqEnd=35399999",
    "sourcePublisher": "Illinois General Assembly",
    "sourceTier": "government",
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    "recheckCadence": "weekly",
    "consideredStaleAfter": "90 days",
    "methodUrl": "https://theclaimsplaybook.net/law/method"
  },
  "disclaimer": "Reference information, not legal advice. Statutes change and courts read them differently; confirm the current text with the linked primary source and counsel licensed in the jurisdiction before relying on it.",
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    "permalink": "https://theclaimsplaybook.net/law/recording-consent/IL",
    "title": "Illinois recording consent law",
    "publisher": "The Insurance Investigator's Playbook",
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    "citationText": "\"Illinois recording consent law\", The Insurance Investigator's Playbook, https://theclaimsplaybook.net/law/recording-consent/IL",
    "citationMarkdown": "[Illinois recording consent law](https://theclaimsplaybook.net/law/recording-consent/IL) — The Insurance Investigator's Playbook"
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