725 ILCS 5/115-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 725 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE|725 ILCS 5/ - Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963.|Title VI - Proceedings At Trial

 (from Ch. 38, par. 115-5)Sec. 115-5. Business records as evidence.(a) Any writing or record, whether in the form of an entry in a book  or otherwise, made as a memorandum or record of any act, transaction,  occurrence, or event, shall be admissible as evidence of such act,  transaction, occurrence, or event, if made in regular course of any  business, and if it was the regular course of such business to make such  memorandum or record at the time of such act, transaction, occurrence, or  event or within a reasonable time thereafter.All other circumstances of the making of such writing or record,  including lack of personal knowledge by the entrant or maker, may be shown  to affect its weight, but such circumstances shall not affect its  admissibility.The term "business," as used in this Section, includes business,  profession, occupation, and calling of every kind.(b) If any business, institution, member of a profession or calling, or  any department or agency of government, in the regular course of business  or activity has kept or recorded any memorandum, writing, entry, print,  representation or combination thereof, of any act, transaction, occurrence,  or event, and in the regular course of business has caused any or all of  the same to be recorded, copied, or reproduced by any photographic,  photostatic, microfilm, micro-card, miniature photographic, optical  imaging, or other  process which accurately reproduces or forms a medium for so  reproducing the original, the original may be destroyed in the regular  course of business unless its preservation is required by law. Such  reproduction, when satisfactorily identified, is as admissible in evidence  as the original itself in any proceeding whether the original is in  existence or not and an enlargement or facsimile of such reproduction is  likewise admissible in evidence if the original reproduction is in  existence and available for inspection under direction of court. The  introduction of a reproduced record, enlargement, or facsimile does not  preclude admission of the original. This Section shall not be construed to  exclude from evidence any document or copy thereof which is otherwise  admissible under the rules of evidence.(c) No writing or record made in the regular course of any business  shall become admissible as evidence by the application of this Section if:(1) Such writing or record has been made by anyone in     the regular course of any form of hospital or medical business; or(2) Such writing or record has been made by anyone     during an investigation of an alleged offense or during any investigation relating to pending or anticipated litigation of any kind, except during a hearing to revoke a sentence of probation or conditional discharge or an order of court supervision that is based on a technical violation of a sentencing order when the hearing involves a probationer or defendant who has transferred or moved from the county having jurisdiction over the original charge or sentence.  For the purposes of this subsection (c), "technical violation" means a breach of a sentencing order but does not include an allegation of a subsequent criminal act asserted in a formal criminal charge.(d)  Upon request of the moving party and with reasonable notice given to the opposing party, in a criminal prosecution in which the defendant is accused of an offense under Article 16 or 17 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012, the court may, after a hearing, for good cause and upon appropriate safeguards, permit live foundational testimony business records as evidence, subject to cross-examination,  in open court by means of a contemporaneous audio and video transmission from outside of this State. (Source: P.A. 98-579, eff. 1-1-14.)