(815 ILCS 414/3) (was 720 ILCS 375/3)
Sec. 3.
Whoever, upon the purchase of such admission tickets as
herein provided, feels himself aggrieved or injured by paying for such
tickets any sum in excess of the advertised price or printed rate, or
any sum in excess of the price originally charged at the box office or
place where such admission tickets usually are sold by the management of
any such place of entertainment or amusement, has, irrespective of the
penalties herein provided, a right of action in his name and against
such person, firm, corporation, owner, lessee, manager, trustee, or any
of their agents or employees owning, conducting, managing or operating
any such theater, circus, baseball park or place of public entertainment
or amusement, to recover for each ticket for which an overcharge was
made contrary to the provisions of this Act, a sum of $100, which may be
recovered in a civil action before the circuit court
in this State.
(Source: P.A. 84-1103.)
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