Illinois § 3

§ 3.

Definitions. The following words and terms, whenever used or referred to in this Act, shall have the following meanings, except where the context may otherwise require: (a) "Department" means the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity of the State of Illinois. (b) "Local promotion group" means any non-profit corporation, organization, association, agency or committee thereof formed for the primary purpose of publicizing, promoting, advertising or otherwise encouraging the development of tourism in any municipality, county, or region of Illinois. (c) "Promotional activities" means preparing, planning and conducting campaigns of information, advertising and publicity through such media as newspapers, radio, television, magazines, trade journals, moving and still photography, posters, outdoor signboards and personal contact within and without the State of Illinois; dissemination of information, advertising, publicity, photographs and other literature and material designed to carry out the purpose of this Act; and participation in and attendance at meetings and conventions concerned primarily with tourism, including travel to and from such meetings. (d) "Municipality" means "municipality" as defined in Section 1-1-2 of the Illinois Municipal Code, as heretofore and hereafter amended. (e) "Tourism" means travel 50 miles or more one-way or an overnight trip outside of a person's normal routine. (f) "Municipal amateur sports facility" means a sports facility that: (1) is owned by a unit of local government; (2) has contiguous indoor sports competition space; (3) is designed to principally accommodate and host amateur competitions for youths, adults, or both; and (4) is not used for professional sporting events where participants are compensated for their participation. (g) "Municipal convention center" means a convention center or civic center owned by a unit of local government or operated by a convention center authority, or a municipal convention hall as defined in paragraph (1) of Section 11-65-1 of the Illinois Municipal Code. (h) "Convention center authority" means an Authority, as defined by the Civic Center Code, that operates a municipal convention center. (i) "Incentive" means: (1) a financial incentive provided by a unit of local government, a local promotion group, a not-for-profit organization, a for-profit organization, or a convention center authority to attract a convention, meeting, or trade show that, but for the incentive, would not have occurred in the State or been retained in the State; or (2) a financial incentive provided by a unit of local government, a local promotion group, a not-for-profit organization, a for-profit organization, or a convention center authority for attracting a sporting event that, but for the incentive, would not have occurred in the State or been retained in the State; but (3) only a financial incentive offered or provided to a person or entity in the form of financial benefits or costs which are allowable costs pursuant to the Grant Accountability and Transparency Act. (j) "Unit of local government" has the meaning provided in Section 1 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution. (k) "Local parks" means any park, recreation area, or other similar facility owned or operated by a unit of local government. (Source: P.A. 102-287, eff. 8-6-21; 103-8, eff. 6-7-23.)