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750 ILCS 50/18.1a

(750 ILCS 50/18.1a)

Sec. 18.1a. Registry matches.

(a) The Registry shall release identifying information, as specified on
the applicant's Information Exchange Authorization or, if applicable, a Birth Parent Preference Form, to the following
mutually consenting registered parties
and provide them with any photographs or correspondence which have been placed in the
Adoption/Surrender Records File and
are specifically intended for the registered parties:

(i) an adult adopted or surrendered person and one of

his or her birth relatives who have both filed an applicable Information Exchange Authorization or, if applicable, a Birth Parent Preference Form specifying the other consenting party with the Registry, if information available to the Registry confirms that the consenting adopted or surrendered person is biologically related to the consenting birth relative;

(ii) the adoptive parent or legal guardian of an

adopted or surrendered person under the age of 21 and one of the adopted or surrendered person's birth relatives who have both filed an Information Exchange Authorization specifying the other consenting party, or, if applicable, a Birth Parent Preference Form, with the Registry, if information available to the Registry confirms that the child of the consenting adoptive parent or legal guardian is biologically related to the consenting birth relative; and

(iii) the adoptive parent, adult child, adult

grandchild, birth grandparent, or surviving spouse of a deceased adopted or surrendered person, and one of the adopted or surrendered person's birth relatives who have both filed an applicable Information Exchange Authorization specifying the other consenting party or, if applicable, a Birth Parent Preference Form, with the Registry, if information available to the Registry confirms that the child of the consenting adoptive parent, the parent of the consenting adult child or the deceased wife or husband of the consenting surviving spouse of the adopted or surrendered person was biologically related to the consenting birth relative.

(b) If a registrant is the subject of a Denial of
Information Exchange filed by another registered party or is an adopted or surrendered person, or the surviving relative of a deceased adopted or surrendered person, and a  birth parent of the adopted or surrendered person completed a Birth Parent Preference Form and selected Option E, the Registry shall
not release identifying information to either registrant or, if applicable, to an adopted person who has requested a copy of his or her original birth certificate, with the exception of non-certified copies of the original birth certificate released under Section 18.1b(e), and as to a birth parent who has prohibited release of identifying information on the original birth certificate to the adult adopted or surrendered person, upon the death of said birth parent.

(c) If a registrant has completed a Medical Information Exchange
Questionnaire and has consented to its disclosure, that Questionnaire shall be
released to any registered party who has indicated their desire to receive such
information on his or her Illinois Adoption Registry Application, if
information available to the Registry
confirms that the consenting parties are biologically related, that the consenting
birth relative and the child of the consenting adoptive parents or legal
guardians are birth relatives, or that the consenting birth relative and the deceased wife or husband of the consenting surviving spouse are birth relatives.

(Source: P.A. 98-704, eff. 1-1-15; 99-345, eff. 1-1-16.)