Office of the
Illinois Attorney General
Kwame Raoul

Definition of "meeting"

Meaning of "public business"

Exclusion of purely social gatherings

Exclusion of purely political gatherings

Meetings via electronic means

Definition of "public body"

Committees and subcommittees

Advisory bodies

Subsidiary bodies

2(c)(1) - Specific: employees, volunteers, independent contractors, legal counsel

2(c)(2) - Collective negotiating matters, salary schedule deliberations

2(c)(3) - Appointment, performance, and removal of public officials, when public body has necessary power

2(c)(4) - Evidence presented to quasi-adjudicative body

2(c)(5) - Purchase or lease of real property for use by public body

2(c)(6) - Setting price for sale or lease of property owned by public body

2(c)(8) - School building safety and security

2(c)(9) - Student disciplinary cases

2(c)(10) - Placement of individual students in special education programs and other individual student matters

2(c)(11) - Litigation

Meaning of "probable or imminent"

Scope - strategies, posture, theories, consequences of the litigation itself

2(c)(15) - Professional ethics or performance for advisory body appointed to advise a licensing or regulatory agency

2(c)(16) - Self-evaluation, practices and procedures, or professional ethics, when meeting with representative of state or regional association

2(c)(21) - Closed session minutes for approval or periodic review

2(c)(23) - Operation of municipal: utility, power agency, or natural gas agency

2(c)(29) - Meetings between internal or external auditors and governmental audit committees, finance committees, and their equivalents

"Employee"

"Public office"

"Quasi-adjudicative body"

Taking final action openly

Public recital requirement

Convenience and openness of meeting times and places

Holidays

Physical presence of quorum - exceptions

2.02(a) - Posting annual schedule of regular meetings

2.02(a) - Posting agendas for regular and special meetings, contents of discussion

2.02(a) - Emergency meetings

2.02(b) - Posting notices and supplying copies to news mediums

2.02(c) - Duty to list general subject matter of final action on agenda

2.02(c) - Duty to make notice and agenda continuously available

2.06(a) - Duty to keep minutes and make verbatim recordings of closed sessions; contents of minutes

2.06(b) - Approving minutes and making them publicly available

2.06(c) - Destruction of closed session verbatim recordings

2.06(d) - Periodic review of closed session minutes

2.06(e) - Access to closed session verbatim recordings

2.06(f) - Access to closed session minutes

2.06(g) - Public comment

Reasonable rules

Unreasonable rules

Interruptions

Maintaining order and decorum

Vote required

Citing the section 2(c) exception(s) that authorize closing the meeting

No notice necessary for closed session

3.5(a) - Requirements for filing request for review

Sufficient summary of facts

Reasonable diligence if did not discover violation within 60 days

3.5(b) - Duty to cooperate with PAC

3.5(f) - Cannot pursue OMA lawsuit at same time as Request for Review

7(a), 7(b), 7(c) - Requirements and procedures to allow member of public body to attend meeting remotely

7(e) - Requirements and procedures for meeting without quorum physically present during COVID-19 pandemic and other disaster declarations