740 ILCS 165/ Uniform Single Publication Act.

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740 ILCS 165/1

(740 ILCS 165/1) (from Ch. 126, par. 11)

Sec. 1.

No person shall have more than one cause of action for damages for
libel or slander or invasion of privacy or any other tort founded upon any
single publication or exhibition or utterance, such as any one edition of a
newspaper or book or magazine or any one presentation to an audience or any
one broadcast over radio or television or any one exhibition of a motion
picture. Recovery in any action shall include all damages for any such tort
suffered by the plaintiff in all jurisdictions.