A gun charge against a Champaign man has been dismissed after the Legislature overrode Gov. Pat Quinn's objections to the state's new concealed-carry law this week.
Donnell L. Jackson had faced a charge of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
Police arrested him in Springfield in December 2011 after finding a gun in his sweatshirt during a pat-down.
Sangamon County State's Attorney John Milhiser had resisted previous attempts to have the charge dismissed.
But he reversed course after the new legislation cleared its final obstacles.
A federal court last year declared Illinois' last-in-the-nation ban on concealed weapons to be unconstitutional and ordered lawmakers to craft legislation allowing people to carry firearms.