240 ILCS 10/1
No person shall operate a warehouse or engage in the business of storing personal property for a compensation, or hold himself out as being in the storage or warehouse business, or as offering storage or warehouse facilities, or advertise for, solicit or accept personal property for storage, without a license issued by the Commission , except that licenses issued under this Act by the Illinois Commerce Commission prior to May 4, 1967 shall remain valid for all purposes unless such license is terminated, surrendered or revoked as provided in this Act , and except further that licenses issued by the Illinois Department of Agriculture under this Act prior to January 1, 2010 shall remain valid for all purposes unless such license is terminated, surrendered, or revoked as provided in this Act . Recognized fair associations shall be licensed as set forth under the special provisions of Section 1.1. No person shall receive, hold, store or deliver any alcoholic liquors without a certificate of registration from the Department of Revenue in accordance with Article VII A of "An Act relating to alcoholic liquors", approved January 31, 1934, as heretofore and hereafter amended. The certificate of registration required by the Department of Revenue is in addition to the license required under this Act. This Act does not apply to warehouses licensed under "An Act to regulate refrigerated warehouses in the handling and storage of certain articles of food, and to repeal an Act therein named", approved May 25, 1955, as now or hereafter amended; public warehouses storing grain; garages customarily housing automobiles for in and out storage; storage of personal property in safety deposit vaults or boxes, lock boxes, and check rooms where personal effects, parcels and the like are received for temporary custody; and to the storage of personal property while it is being held in storage for scientific care for repairs or alterations, or is in the process of repair or alteration, or which is incidental to the business of manufacturing, selling, repairing, altering, cleaning, or glazing of furs or of any other garment or article of which fur forms any part thereof.
240 ILCS 10/1