Illinois Traffic Law

If you are over 21 and receive three traffic ticket convictions, the Secretary of State may suspend your license. If you are under 21, the Illinois Secretary of State may suspend your license if you receive two convictions in a two year period. Blindly mailing in a payment for a traffic ticket can result in a conviction being entered on your record. Because these convictions add up in insurance costs and license suspensions, it makes sense to have someone working on your side that understands the Illinois traffic code and knows what an offer from the prosecutor means for your driving privileges. Depending on the type of ticket you have received, you may not even have to show up in court and can send us to represent you, instead of taking the whole morning or day off of work.

Many times, we are able to work out an agreement with prosecutors that reduces the charges against you and that is acceptable to you. If the consequences of a plea bargain are not an option, however, there are almost as many defenses to traffic tickets as there are traffic laws. For example, Illinois Supreme Court Rule 504 requires that the date of your first court appearance on your ticket must be set between 14 and 60 days of the date you were arrested. If not, your ticket should be dismissed.

Contact the Illinois traffic attorneys at the Law Office of Chris M. Shepherd at 312.789.8050 for a free case evaluation to determine the best defense strategy for keeping traffic convictions off of your permanent record.