Car Window Tinting Laws are Complicated (and hard to enforce)

Curious City

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🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Curious City takes a look at the growing popularity of car window tinting in Illinois. We find out what the state law says about how dark automobile windows can be, who enforces these laws -- or not -- and why some people have safety concerns about them.

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0:00.0	Hey, Curiosity Listeners. It's me, your reporter, Adriana Cardona Maggiagad, with our editor, Johanna Sorn.
0:10.7	Hey, Johanna. Hi, Adriana.
0:12.6	Johanna, I have a question for you. Yeah, what's that?
0:15.1	What comes to mind when you see a car driving around in your neighborhood or whatever you're going, and that car has
0:22.4	dark tinted windows.
0:25.4	Well, my first thought is there's somebody really special inside that car, like a visiting
0:31.1	dignitary, a government official, maybe Obama's in town, or some kind of superstar, or maybe just someone who thinks there's someone special and that they want tinted windows.
0:44.4	But it's also a little off-putting like, I wish I could see that person behind the wheel.
0:50.0	Yeah, I know what you mean.
0:51.6	And I've been talking to a lot of people about this.
0:53.9	Co-workers, family members, friends, even random people on the streets.
0:58.4	Yeah, and what do they say?
1:00.0	Well, here's what I got.
1:01.9	I'm just asking people about tinted windows.
1:05.4	Tended windows.
1:07.4	You guys are perfect because you have tinted windows.
1:11.6	I just bought the car. A car was like that when I got it.
1:13.6	How do you like having your tinted windows?
1:14.6	I don't have a problem with it.
1:15.6	I don't have a problem with him not being tinted.
1:18.6	For one, I have a child, so keeping the sun out of his eyes, he doesn't always have sunglasses on.
1:22.6	And really just reducing glare.
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