Enforcement: How hard does the regulator enforce?

A federal judge in the Northern District of Illinois held on 2 October 2026 that Illinois' sports-wagering licensing and criminal provisions, as applied to prediction-market sports event contracts, are likely preempted by the Commodity Exchange Act, and preliminarily enjoined their enforcement against Kalshi, Coinbase and other CFTC-regulated operators. The state's exchange-wager fees remain unresolved pending supplemental briefing, with the court's proposed injunction terms due 29 October 2026. This marks an active and unresolved jurisdictional conflict between the state's own licensing and criminal enforcement mechanism and federal commodities regulation, affecting a defined category of in-scope operators. Separately, the Illinois Gaming Board has published First Notice proposed amendments to 86 Illinois Administrative Code 1900 Subpart Q, adding shorter self-exclusion tiers, new enrollment channels, a voluntary Marketing Exclusion List extending the targeted-marketing prohibition a default twelve months beyond an elected exclusion term, and incorporation of fantasy-contest accounts into the Self-Exclusion List. This rulemaking has reached First Notice only and has not yet proceeded to Joint Committee on Administrative Rules review.