Illinois Freedom of Information Act

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Illinois state statute freedom of information law public records law

The Illinois Freedom of Information Act is a state law that guarantees public access to government records in Illinois to promote transparency and accountability.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Illinois Freedom of Information Act canonical	6
Illinois FOIA	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Illinois state statute ⓘ freedom of information law ⓘ public records law ⓘ
appliesTo	Illinois boards and commissions ⓘ Illinois counties ⓘ Illinois executive branch departments ⓘ Illinois municipalities ⓘ Illinois public bodies ⓘ Illinois public universities system ⓘ surface form: Illinois public universities Illinois school districts ⓘ Illinois executive branch ⓘ surface form: Illinois state agencies any person making a records request ⓘ electronic records held by public bodies ⓘ paper records held by public bodies ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	Illinois ⓘ surface form: State of Illinois
containsProvision	appeal procedures for denied requests ⓘ exemptions from disclosure ⓘ fee rules for copying records ⓘ judicial review of denials ⓘ penalties for willful violations ⓘ time limits for responding to records requests ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
enforcedBy	Illinois Attorney General ⓘ Illinois state court system ⓘ surface form: Illinois courts
governingBody	Illinois General Assembly ⓘ
grantsRightTo	inspect public records ⓘ obtain copies of public records ⓘ request public records ⓘ
hasExemption	attorney-client privileged communications exemption ⓘ law enforcement records exemption ⓘ personal privacy exemption ⓘ preliminary drafts and notes exemption ⓘ trade secrets exemption ⓘ
hasPrinciple	narrow construction of exemptions ⓘ presumption of openness of public records ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
legalDomain	administrative law ⓘ open government law ⓘ
purpose	to guarantee public access to government records in Illinois ⓘ to promote government accountability ⓘ to promote government transparency ⓘ
regulates	access to public records ⓘ disclosure of government-held information ⓘ
relatedTo	Illinois Open Meetings Act ⓘ federal Freedom of Information Act ⓘ
scope	records in possession of public bodies ⓘ records under control of public bodies ⓘ
shortName	IL FOIA ⓘ Illinois Freedom of Information Act self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Illinois FOIA

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Illinois Freedom of Information Act
Description of subject: The Illinois Freedom of Information Act is a state law that guarantees public access to government records in Illinois to promote transparency and accountability.

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Illinois Compiled Statutes → hasPart → Illinois Freedom of Information Act ⓘ

Board of Trustees of College of DuPage → subjectTo → Illinois Freedom of Information Act ⓘ

Illinois Freedom of Information Act → shortName → Illinois Freedom of Information Act self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Illinois FOIA

Illinois Open Meetings Act → relatedTo → Illinois Freedom of Information Act ⓘ

Board of Trustees of City Colleges of Chicago → subjectTo → Illinois Freedom of Information Act ⓘ

Lisle Township Board of Trustees → subjectTo → Illinois Freedom of Information Act ⓘ

Decatur City Council → subjectTo → Illinois Freedom of Information Act ⓘ