Bill’s sponsor says current age limit of 14 in Illinois ‘overly restrictive’
•April 10, 2019•

By Grant Morgan
Capitol News Illinois

Illinois is one step closer to lowering from 14 to 12 the age at which a child may legally be left at home alone.
The bill, HB 2334, passed the House with a vote of 111-1 on Wednesday.
The bill’s sponsor, GOP Rep. Joe Sosnowski of Rockford, said the current law – the strictest in the nation for more than 25 years – was a legislative overreaction to a case from 1992, when a St. Charles couple left their 9- and 4-year-old children at home to vacation in Mexico.
Sosnowski said lowering the age to 12 would give parents more flexibility in deciding when their children are mature enough to be left at home alone or unsupervised.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.