Illinois Code § 720 ILCS 145/1

Any person who shall within this state wrongfully tap or connect a wire
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with the telegraph or telephone wires of any person, company or association
engaged in the transmission of news or telegraph or telephone lines between
the states or in this state for the purpose of wrongfully taking or making
use of the news dispatches of such person, company or association, or of
its customers, shall be deemed guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

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