(720 ILCS 150/1) (from Ch. 23, par. 2351)
Sec. 1.
It shall be unlawful for any person having the care, custody or
control of any child under the age of fourteen years, to exhibit, use or
employ, or in any manner, or under any pretense, sell, apprentice, give
away, let out, or otherwise dispose of any such child to any person in or
for the vocation or occupation, service or purpose of singing, playing on
musical instruments, rope or wire walking, dancing, begging, or peddling,
or as a gymnast, contortionist, rider or acrobat in any place whatsoever,
or for any obscene, indecent or immoral purpose, exhibition or practice
whatsoever, or for, or in any business, exhibition or vocation injurious to
the health or dangerous to the life or limb of such child, or cause,
procure or encourage any such child to engage therein. Nothing in this
section contained shall apply to or affect the employment or use of any
such child as a singer or musician in any church, school or academy (or at
any respectable entertainment), or the teaching or learning the science or
practice of music.
(Source: Laws 1877, p. 90.)
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