The State Police of Illinois is responsible for maintaining the public records including arrest records. The State Police has maintained official website for the public interest as well as for law enforcement agencies under the certifiable system to avoid any erroneous use. Illinois arrest records contain information submitted to the State of Illinois from each county and other criminal justice agencies of the state. These records are renewed and updated monthly.
Accessing Illinois State Arrest Records
To find whether a person has a criminal record and in turn arrest record in the state of Illinois, check the state repository, the relevant county records and civil court records.
- Illinois State Repository provides access not only to the felony and misdemeanor convictions but arrest records as well.
- Signed release is not required by the state.
- Cost is $18 for each individual searched statewide and $20 for county criminal records
- The required results requested by a person are either e-mailed or faxed back to the requester in 3-5 business days.
- Provide the following informations of an individual being searched for
- Full Name
- Date of Birth
- Social Security Number
- Gender
- Assumed name (if any)
- Address
Obtaining the Arrest Record Information
In order to get details on Illinois criminal arrest records which are only available at the Police Department, use the following means:
- A criminal record request form can be downloaded from authorized website of the State Police Department and dispatched the completely filled form directly to the department of Illinois State Police at following mailing address:
- People can also contact Bureau of identification at the following address:
Bureau of Identification, located at;
260 North Chicago Street, Joliet,
Illinois 60431-1060
Illinois State Criminal Records
Illinois State Police Bureau of Identification
260 N Chicago St
Joliet, IL 60432
P: (815) 740-5160
The arrest records for the State of Illinois can be accessed through online databases. The state of Illinois has managed the criminals’ arrest records online on various websites. The online available Illinois arrest records provide a convenient service for making a search of criminals of the state. To make a search for an arrest records of a person provide the database with his or her first and last name. In case of getting narrow results enter the city and state name. Providing city and state name also improves the search results.
The online databases before furnishing the arrest record informations to an individual, first confirms that the informations obtained must be used for lawfully satisfactory purposes and these should not be utilized for harassing any resident of the state. A person wants to get the arrest record information for an illegal use may have to face the civil and criminal punishments.
There is also many other online searching databases for Illinois’s criminal arrest records which provide private, optional and trustworthy approach to different checks on criminals and their arrest records for the ordinary public, business community, employers and agencies of the state. These online search databases provide the instant details of the most wanted criminals, fugitives and their arrests records etc supervised under the Federal, and State County authorities.