Illinois Child Identification Program

Illinois Child
Identification Program  (IL Chip)

 will be held on Oct 5th 
 from 9:00 am – noon

at the Wilmette Fire Department at 1304 Lake Avenue

during the Fire Department Open House.

The IL CHIP
program in Wilmette is sponsored by Wilmette Park Lodge 931  & Grand
Lodge of Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of the State of Illinois.  It

is free of charge to parents.

It only takes
10-minutes and supplies parents with a complete child identification package
that can be taken home or carried with the family on vacation. The information
-- most of which is contained on a CD -- is compact and totally private.

Parents keep all of the collected information. Besides the parental permission

form neither the Police nor the IL CHIP program keeps any information.

These materials
are available for parents to preview or event hosts to reproduce for an
upcoming event.

- Color Photo that records image and
height and is digitized on a convenient CD that an be easily circulated by
police to the media and distributed across the State within an hour via
Illinois’ Amber Alert Program.


- DNA Sample taken through a saliva cheek swab is the latest tool in the

scientific arsenal to make positive ID’s of lost children.

- Fingerprints
are the oldest form of positive identification since they are unique to every
person.

- Recorded
Interview captures on the same CD as the picture the appearance, speech
patterns, personal characteristics, and mannerisms for easy media distribution.