(330 ILCS 60/2) (from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 30)
Sec. 2.
As a guide to the interpretation and application of this Act, the
public policy of the State is declared as follows:
As a constituent commonwealth of the United States of America, the State
of Illinois is dedicated to the urgent task of strengthening and expediting
the national defense under the emergent conditions which are threatening
the peace and security of this nation. It is the considered judgment of the
General Assembly that the service members of Illinois who respond to their
country's call to service in this time of crisis, are deserving of every
protection the law may afford, and that
repetition of the regrettable experience existing after the great war of
1917-1918, wherein returning service men were subjected to serious
discrimination with regard to tenure and other rights, must
be avoided, since any form of economic discrimination against returning
service men is a serious menace to the entire social fabric of the United
States of America and the State of Illinois.
(Source: P.A. 100-1101, eff. 1-1-19.)
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