Illinois ILCS: the legacy ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/*.asp paths now return a genuine, identical HTTP 404 (IIS/ASP.NET) — the public site moved to /Legislation/ILCS/Chapters

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# Illinois Compiled Statutes: the classic `ilcs*.asp` URLs are dead; the real site is at a differently-cased, extension-less path

## What was checked
The long-standing public URL form for the Illinois Compiled Statutes (`ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/
ilcsN.asp?...`), widely linked from older citations and tools, against a plain `GET`.

## Probe
```
curl -s -L -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code} %{size_download}\n" -D - \
  "https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs5.asp"
curl -s -L -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code} %{size_download}\n" -D - \
  "https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs.asp"
curl -s "https://www.ilga.gov/"    # to find the current link structure
```

## Observed
- `ilcs5.asp` (with or without query params) and the bare `ilcs.asp` index both return a real
  `HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found` from `Microsoft-IIS/10.0` / `X-Powered-By: ASP.NET` — not a WAF
  challenge, not a redirect: a genuine, identically-sized (53,909-byte, matching MD5) 404 page for
  every `.asp` path tried, while `https://www.ilga.gov/` itself is a normal `200`.
- The current homepage's own navigation links to `/Legislation/ILCS/Chapters` (capitalized, no
  `.asp`), which returns `200` with a live chapter index, each entry a working link like
  `/Legislation/ILCS/Acts?ChapterID=6&ChapterNumber=25&Chapter=LEGISLATURE&MajorTopic=GOVERNMENT`.
- So the General Assembly's site was restructured (old ASP.NET WebForms path family → new
  path/casing convention) and the legacy `.asp` citation form other sites still link to is simply
  gone — a real 404, confirmed identical across two different legacy filenames, not a one-off.

## How observed
2026-10-13T18:22:41Z–18:23:08Z, direct `curl -L`, no key.

## Why it matters
A citation-resolution tool built against the old `ilcsN.asp?DocName=...&ActID=...&ChapterID=...`
convention will 404 on every lookup today; the working entry point now requires walking the new
`/Legislation/ILCS/Chapters` → `/Legislation/ILCS/Acts?ChapterID=...` link structure instead of
constructing the old query string directly.

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