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2024 Eclipse T-Shirt
3/14/2024 - 4/1/2024
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Party in the Path Vendor Fair
4/6/2024 - 4/6/2024
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2024 Rend Lake Water Festival Parade
5/4/2024 - 5/4/2024
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Events in the month of February 2022
2/12/2022 - 2/19/2022


This course will provide an understanding for the law-abiding citizen’s right to self-defense. The participants will develop skills and attitudes essential for the safe and effective use of a handgun for the protection of self and family. Further, coverage will be provided on mental awareness, how to avoid victimization, and mindset development for use of a firearm when faced with a life threatening encounter. This course will review basic gun safety rules for guns in the home, travel and concealed carry. Also covered will be the responsibility of firearm ownership laws, how to legally travel with a firearm and the justified use of lethal force. Students will be required to participate in classroom and firearms range activities and demonstrate basic live-fire handgun proficiency. 

An Illinois Firearms Owners ID card is recommended, but not required.  This course assumes participant already has a basic understanding of firearms, firearm’s safety and possesses basic firearm’s use skill sets.  However, even very novice shooters are more than welcome and even encouraged to attend. (No Firearms or ammunition allowed in the classroom)

This course is available to and encouraged for private/professional groups of 15 or more. Course facilitator would provide classroom facility suitable for the number of participants. Contact us for more information and the training team availability and dates Course meets all of the Illinois Concealed Carry Curriculum Mandates.
2/15/2022
The Predator's Playbook" -- Choose Not To Be A Victim

Predators have invaded our neighborhoods, schools, stores,
workplace and our places of worship...choose not to be a victim.


In today’s changing times with predators, threats, terrorism, and ISIS everywhere, personal safety has become a top concern for everyone. Predators have extended their victimization to our neighborhoods, communities, school, workplace, and our places of worship. We cannot begin to understand how the predator thinks but we can develop skills to understand and predict how the predator moves. With more than 75 years of combined law enforcement and professional training experience Extreme Exigency’s Instructor team has researched and cracked the predators’ playbook and broken it down into something everyone from all ages and in a walks of life can understand and apply. The predator’s playbook sets in motion a path towards a way of life with safety for ourselves first, and steadily moves through safety in our homes, neighborhoods, workplaces, places of worship and closing with safety for our greatest blessings our children.

This 2 hour course, developed and delivered by veteran law enforcement officer Ray Minor MLS, MS, has received astonishing reviews and is recommended for all male, female, teenage participants and anyone involved in security for school, places of worship or private business or industry  
2/24/2022
This is the 3-hour Concealed Carry Renewal Class for Illinois Concealed Carry permit holders.  Per Illinois Concealed Carry Act Mandate, the class will consist of reviewing all laws associated with Illinois Concealed Carry followed up with a live fire range qualification.