A person commits theft when he or she knowingly:
(A) 
Obtains or exerts unauthorized control over property of the owner; or
(B) 
Obtains by deception, control over property of the owner; or
(C) 
Obtains by threat, control over property of the owner; or
(D) 
Obtains control over stolen property knowing the property to have been stolen by another or under such circumstances as would reasonably induce him to believe that the property was stolen; or
(E) 
Obtains or exerts control over property in the custody of any law enforcement agency which any law enforcement officer or any individual acting in behalf of a law enforcement agency explicitly represents to the person as being stolen or represents to the person such circumstances as would reasonably induce the person to believe that the property was stolen; and
(1) 
Intends to deprive the owner permanently of the use or benefit of the property; or
(2) 
Knowingly uses, conceals or abandons the property in such a manner as to deprive the owner permanently of such use or benefit; or
(3) 
Uses, conceals or abandons the property, knowing such use, concealment or abandonment probably will deprive the owner permanently of such use or benefit.
(F) 
It shall be unlawful to commit a theft.
(See 720 ILCS 5/16-1)
A person commits criminal damage to property when he or she:
(A) 
Knowingly damages any property of another;
(B) 
Recklessly by means of fire or explosive damages property of another;
(C) 
Knowingly start a fire on the land of another;
(D) 
Knowingly injure a domestic animal of another without his or her consent;
(E) 
Knowingly deposits on the land or in the building of another any stink bomb or any offensive smelling compound and thereby intends to interfere with the use by another of the land or building;
(F) 
Knowingly damages any property, other than as described in paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of Section 20-1, with intent to defraud an insurer;
(G) 
Knowingly shoots a firearm at any portion of a railroad train;
(H) 
Knowingly, without proper authorization, cuts, injures, damages, defaces, destroys, or tampers with any fire hydrant or any public or private fire-fighting equipment or any apparatus appertaining to firefighting equipment; or
(I) 
Intentionally, without proper authorization, opens any fire hydrant.
When the charge of criminal damage to property exceeding a specified value is brought, the extent of the damage is an element of the offense to be resolved by the trier of fact as either exceeding nor not exceeding the specified value. (See 720 ILCS 5/21-1)
It shall be unlawful to willfully, maliciously, or negligently break, deface, injure or destroy any telegraph or telephone pole, post or wire, or any electric light post, pole, or electric conductor, wire or lamp or any other thing connected with the same or belonging thereto, or any water main, gas main, pipe or hydrant or lamp or lamppost, or anything belonging to or connected therewith or with any of them.
It shall be unlawful for a person to knowingly and without lawful authority alter, destroy, deface, remove or conceal any public notice, posted according to law, during the time for which the notice was to remain posted. (See 720 ILCS 5/32-9)