(740 ILCS 10/2) (from Ch. 38, par. 60-2)
Sec. 2.
The purpose of this Act is to promote the unhampered growth of
commerce and industry throughout the State by prohibiting restraints of
trade which are secured through monopolistic or oligarchic practices and
which act or tend to act to decrease competition between and among persons
engaged in commerce and trade, whether in manufacturing, distribution,
financing, and service industries or in related for-profit pursuits.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 1943.)
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