Illinois Code § 720 ILCS 5/17-43

Prohibited deposits.
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(a) A person who, with intent to
defraud the issuer of a credit card or debit card or any person providing an item or items of value, or any other person,
deposits into his or her account or any account, via an electronic fund transfer
terminal, a check, draft, money order, or other such document, knowing
such document to be false, fictitious, forged, altered, counterfeit, or not
his or her lawful or legal property, is guilty of
a Class 4 felony.
 
(b) A person who receives value as a result of a false, fictitious,
forged, altered, or counterfeit check, draft, money order, or other
such document having been deposited into an account via an electronic fund
transfer terminal, knowing at the time of receipt of the value that the
document so deposited was false, fictitious, forged, altered, counterfeit,
or not his or her lawful or legal property, is
guilty of a Class 4 felony.

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