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State of IL can turn a good citizen into a hardened criminal. If you get to many parking tickets, your drivers license can be suspended. If you neglect to pay your childsupport, your drivers license can be suspended. So it is not like most States, where you must be doing something wrong with your drivers license to be under threat of loosing priveledges. A guy I met in IL, name Brad, had some children and got behind in childsupport. Brad had his drivers license suppended. This made it difficult on him to secure jobs, because he could not drive to and from work. He signed up for food assistance. He finally found work, about 3 miles from his home. He decided on cold days to drive back and forth to work. Well, he eventually got stopped for improper display of a license plate. Brad when asked by a police officer, Whats your name? Brad answered, Gave his brothers name. The Officer recognized him and said, No, that is wrong. So the cop preseded to place him under arrest. Instead of just Driving under suspension and Improper Display of Plates- now Brad had two more charges. Lieing to a Officer and Obstruction of Justice. Lie to a Officer carries 3 to 6 years in jail, Obstruction of Justice carries 1 to 3 years in jail and a $25,000 fine. So now it is more than a petty crime of driving under suspension and possibly prison time. Brad now spent one night in jail and had a $3000 bond- $300 to get out, court fees, lawyer fees, ect.. Still might do prison time too.

In CA and MO it is legal to ride on a permit. You must ride with no passengers and ride in daylight hours. In IL you can get a permit but you must find a licensed rider over 21 to ride with. Meaning a permit does not allow one to ride still and learn his own motorcycle. That sounds half backwards. It has these stipulations to purposely get good citizens into trouble. Say I have a IL permit to ride a motorcycle. Know a nieghbor whom agrees to ride with me. Well, if the neighbor takes off on a road faster than 35 mph, well I can't follow, or I break the law. If he gets angry at me, well he can ride off on a highway, I thus am stranded and if I ride home, I break the law. The laws are to make a good citizen and criminal.

I inquired about IL motorcycle laws from the Attorney General. He told me, you must get a permit and find someone to ride with. That if I could not find someone to ride with, than I must put it in the back of my pickup and try for a IL motorcycle license, by driving my truck to the license bureau unloading motorcycle, take test. That was the stupidest suggestion I have ever heard of. If I wasn't from MO. I would not even have the practice time on my bike to take the test. If I had just bought the bike in IL, no practice time would be crazy.