Illinois Compiled Statutes 65 Municipalities: Article 7 - Territory
Division 1. Annexation
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-1
Annexation of contiguous territory. Any territory that is not within the corporate limits of any municipality but is contiguous to a municipality may be annexed...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-1.1
Elector. For the purposes of this Division 1, "elector" means anyone registered to vote. (Source: P.A. 90-14, eff. 7-1-97.)
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-2
(a) A written petition signed by a majority of the owners of record of land in the territory and also by a majority of the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-3
After the filing of the petition but not less than 5 days prior to the date fixed for the hearing, any interested person may...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-4
The cause shall be heard without further pleadings. At the hearing the objector may be heard in person or by counsel. Prior to hearing...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-5
After the clerk receives the certified copy of the order of the court, the corporate authorities of the annexing municipality shall proceed to consider...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-5.1
(a) This Section shall apply when the following conditions are met with respect to any tract within the territory sought to be annexed: (1)...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-5.2
Annexation of contiguous territory contributing to groundwater contamination. (a) The corporate authorities of a municipality adjoining unincorporated territory in which the majority of residential,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-5.3
Planned unit development; rail-trail. When a developer petitions a municipality to annex property for a planned unit development of residential, commercial, or industrial sub-divisions that...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-6
(a) If the vote is in favor of annexing the described territory, the corporate authorities on their own motion may order a referendum on...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-7
(a) If the court finds that an annexation ordinance is valid, the court shall enter an order directing the submission of the question of...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-8
Any territory which is not within the corporate limits of any municipality but which is contiguous to a municipality at the time of annexation...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-9
Whenever any contiguous, uninhabited, unincorporated territory is owned by any municipality, that territory may be annexed by that municipality by the passage of an...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-10
Any municipality by ordinance may annex any territory contiguous to it even though the annexed territory is dedicated or used for street or highway...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-11
The following is an optional method of annexing any territory which, (1) is not less than one square mile in area; (2) contains at...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-12
Upon a written petition which is signed by a majority of the owners of record of land in any contiguous unincorporated territory wholly bounded...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-13
Annexation. (a) Whenever any unincorporated territory containing 60 acres or less, is wholly bounded by (a) one or more municipalities, (b) one or more municipalities...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-14
Whenever real estate owned by any school district is situated in unincorporated territory adjacent to any municipality it may be annexed thereto as follows:...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-15
Any municipality may be annexed to another municipality to which it adjoins, by ordinances passed by a majority vote of all the aldermen, trustees,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-16
Where a municipality adjoins another municipality in one or more portions of its boundaries, it may be annexed thereto as follows, notwithstanding that territory...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-17
The question cast at this election shall be in substantially the following form: -------------------------------------------------------------- Shall the municipality of YES.... be annexed to the -------------------------------municipality...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-18
The municipality to which the whole of another municipality is annexed under Section 7-1-16 and 7-1-17 shall assume and pay all debts and liabilities,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-18.5
Maintenance of sanitary sewers. A municipality located in a county with a population of 3,000,000 or more to which territory is annexed after the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-19
When the whole of a municipality is annexed to another municipality, and the annexed municipality has passed the annual appropriation ordinance, but not an...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-20
The annexation of the whole of a municipality to another municipality, shall not adversely affect proceedings for the collection or enforcement of any tax...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-21
All suits pending in any court on behalf of or against any municipality, when the whole municipality is annexed to another municipality, may be...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-22
Upon the annexation of the whole of a municipality to another municipality, all public books, papers, and documents filed in any office or with...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-23
Upon the annexation of the whole of a municipality to another municipality, all policemen and firemen lawfully in the employ of the annexed municipality...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-24
On petition in writing, signed by one-half of the electors and one-half of the owners of record of land in any territory, not exceeding...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-25
Any unoccupied territory, lying along the boundary line between 2 adjoining municipalities, may be excluded from one of the adjoining municipalities and annexed to...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-26
Any territory containing 60 acres or less lying along one or both sides of the boundary line between 2 adjoining municipalities, and contiguous to...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-27
Territory, within a municipality, which (1) is not less than one-half square mile in area, but less than the whole of the municipality, and...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-28
The question shall be in substantially the following form: -------------------------------------------------------------- Shall the territory (heredescribe it) be disconnected YESfrom the municipality of.... --------------------------and annexed to...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-29
If, as provided in Sections 7-1-16, 7-1-17, 7-1-27 and 7-1-28, petitions are presented to the court for the annexation of the whole and also...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-30
Whenever a part of a municipality has been annexed to an adjoining township, which is wholly within the limits of another municipality, under the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-31
After a part of a municipality is disconnected and annexed to another municipality, the indebtedness and liabilities of the municipality from which the part...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-32
If the specified authorities agree as to the amount to be paid by the enlarged annexing municipality, each of the authorities concerned shall pass...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-33
Upon annexation, the title and possession of all municipal and school property located in the annexed part vests in the annexing municipality. There shall...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-34
If a part of a municipality is annexed to another municipality, and if before the annexation the corporate authorities of the divided municipality have...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-35
If a part of a municipality is annexed to another municipality, and if proceedings were instituted before annexation to make improvements in or on...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-36
After a part of a municipality is annexed to another municipality, proceedings theretofore instituted to take land for the purpose of opening any street,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-37
After a part of a municipality is annexed to another municipality, both the annexed territory and the divided municipality shall have a right to...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-38
If a part of a municipality is annexed to another municipality, and if the corporate authorities of the divided municipality and of the annexing...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-39
After a part of a municipality is annexed to another municipality, any mayor, president, alderman, trustee, clerk, treasurer, or attorney for the disconnecting municipality,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-40
After any territory is annexed to or disconnected from any municipality, the chief executive officer of the municipality or of the county board, as...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-41
After either the whole or a part of a municipality is annexed to another municipality, and, despite the construction of sewers in the annexed...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-42
Redistricting after annexation. (a) If the increase in population resulting from the annexation of any territory to a city under the aldermanic form of...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-44
All valid ordinances or resolutions of, and all valid decisions determined through a referendum of the voters in, the whole or a part of...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-45
If the whole or a part of a municipality is annexed to another municipality, all municipal officers, exercising power or authority over the annexed...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-46
Neither the People of the State of Illinois nor any person, firm or corporation, public or private, nor any association of persons shall commence...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-47
Automatic zoning classification. The corporate authorities of any municipality may provide by ordinance that when territory is annexed to such municipality, the territory automatically...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-48
For all annexations under this Article 7: (a) Except as may be otherwise expressly restricted, territory comprising more than one parcel of record, or...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-1-49
Automatic annexation. As provided in Section 8 of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act, 60 days before the sale of any surplus real estate...
Division 2. Union of Contiguous Municipalities
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-1
Any 2 or more incorporated contiguous municipalities wholly or substantially situated in a single county may be united into one incorporated city by a...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-2
A certified copy of the canvass of the votes of the election on the proposition stated in Section 7-2-1, made by the proper officers,...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-3
If municipalities are united by compliance with Section 7-2-1, the union shall not be affected by a failure of officers to perform the duties...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-4
All courts shall take judicial notice of a union of municipalities effected by a compliance with Section 7-2-1. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-5
Each municipality that becomes a part of a united city upon compliance with Section 7-2-1 shall thereafter be known as the Borough of .......
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-6
Municipalities which have united under Section 7-2-1 shall be deemed to have adopted the City Election Law, as heretofore and hereafter amended. Within 10...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-7
The day of the first election of officers of the united city shall be the next regular election date at which municipal officers are...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-8
The terms of all popularly elected officers in the boroughs shall expire 30 days after the first election of officers as provided in Sections...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-9
Each borough shall retain and pay any debt or liability which exists immediately prior to the formation of the united city. The title to...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-10
If any municipality, before it becomes a borough, has enacted its annual appropriation ordinance, but has not enacted an ordinance levying a tax that...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-11
The formation of a union as provided in Section 7-2-1 shall not adversely affect the collection of any revenue or the enforcement of any...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-11.1
Where a tax rate or rates have been authorized by referendum in any municipality that has become a borough of a united city as...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-12
All suits pending in any court on behalf of or against any municipality, when it becomes a borough of a united city, may be...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-13
If any municipality, before it becomes the borough of a united city, has instituted proceedings to improve any street or alley or to construct...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-15
All policemen and firemen lawfully in the employment of any municipality that becomes a borough of a united city shall become members of the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-16
All valid ordinances or resolutions of and all valid decisions determined through a referendum of the voters in any municipality which becomes a borough...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-17
If annexation of any territory is made to a united city, it shall become a part of the borough to which it is contiguous....
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-18
A municipality contiguous to a united city may be annexed to the united city as a borough thereof, by a compliance with Sections 7-1-1...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-19
Whenever a united city is formed by a compliance with Section 7-2-1 and the decision is in favor of an aldermanic form of municipal...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-20
If the decision at the election under Section 7-2-1 is in favor of the commission form of municipal government, the united city shall be...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-21
In addition to the requirements of the general election law, a distinct ballot shall be printed for each borough for the primary election. At...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-22
To determine the number of nominees who shall be placed on the ballot under each sub-title at the general city election, the number of...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-23
If a candidate nominated at a primary election for a particular office dies or withdraws before the general city election, the vacancy on the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-24
The ballots for the election of officers at the general city election in a united city shall be prepared in accordance with the general election...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-25
Every valid ordinance of a municipality that becomes a borough of a united city shall remain valid within that borough until repealed by an...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-26
The formation of a united city under Section 7-2-1 shall not effect a union of the schools in the boroughs of the united city....
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-27
At any general municipal election, the question of the dissolution of the united city may be submitted to the electors by a compliance, as...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-2-28
Whenever a united city is formed by a compliance with Section 7-2-1 of municipal government with aldermen chosen from wards or districts, the united...
Division 3. Disconnection
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-3-1
Within one year of the organization of any municipality under the provisions of Divisions 2 and 3 of Article 2 of this Code, any territory...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-3-2
Upon the filing of the petition as provided in Section 7-3-1, the court shall set the same for public hearing which date of public...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-3-3
The public hearing may be continued from time to time by the court. After such public hearing and having heard any and all persons...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-3-4
Any territory, within any municipality, which is upon the border but within the boundary of the municipality may be disconnected from the municipality, in...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-3-5
A copy of the ordinance disconnecting territory from any municipality, certified by the clerk of that municipality, shall within 90 days be filed for...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-3-6
The owner or owners of record of any area of land consisting of one or more tracts, lying within the corporate limits of any municipality...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-3-6.1
Notice to the payor of real estate taxes. When territory is proposed to be disconnected by court order under this Article, the corporate authorities...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-3-6.2
Split lots. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, the owner or owners of record of a split residential lot may disconnect a portion of...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-3-7
The disconnection of any such area of land shall not exempt it from taxation for the purpose of paying any indebtedness contracted by the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-3-8
Whenever the boundaries of any municipality, containing part or all of any special charter school district, are changed, the clerk of such municipality shall,...
Division 4. Territorial Jurisdiction
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-4-1
The corporate authorities in all municipalities have jurisdiction in and over all places within one-half mile of the corporate limits for the purpose of...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-4-2
All property which (1) is owned by a municipality, and (2) lies outside the corporate limits of the municipality, and (3) does not lie...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-4-3
Whenever, as a result of the annexation of the whole of a municipality to another municipality with a population of more than 200,000, unincorporated...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-4-4
The corporate authorities in all municipalities have jurisdiction over all waters within or bordering upon the municipality, to the extent of 3 miles beyond the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-4-5
Each municipality which is situated in 2 or more counties, has jurisdiction over the entire territory embraced within its corporate limits for all municipal...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-4-6
Whenever this Code or any other Act of this State provides that a suit or proceeding affecting the title or possession of land or...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-4-7
The territory which is embraced within the corporate limits of adjoining municipalities within any county in this State shall be a police district. (Source:...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-4-8
The police of any municipality in such a police district have full authority and power as peace officers and may go into any part...
Division 5. Change of Site
Division 6. Dissolution
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-6-1
Any municipality, incorporated under any general or special law, may be dissolved as follows: Whenever electors in the municipality, equal to a majority of...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-6-2
The question shall read substantially as follows: -------------------------------------------------------------- "Shall the municipal YES corporation of........... ------------------------------- be dissolved?" NO-------------------------------------------------------------- The result shall be entered upon...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-6-3
If a majority of the votes cast on the question are "yes," the municipality is dissolved. But if a majority of the votes cast...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-6-4
If the vote is in favor of a voluntary dissolution of the municipality there shall be no further elections for municipal officers. The officers...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-6-5
If the vote is in favor of dissolution, the acting corporate authorities of the dissolved municipality shall give notice of the result of the...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-6-6
After the acting corporate authorities of the dissolved municipality (1) have paid all of the debts and obligations of the municipality, (2) have closed...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-6-7
Upon application by the county board of any county to the circuit court, and after a hearing upon such notice as may be directed...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-6-8
All courts shall take judicial notice of (1) the existence of Illinois municipalities, (2) of the counties in which they are situated, (3) of...
Division 7. Consolidations
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-7-1
Application of Division. This Division shall apply to consolidations of municipalities in this State in counties with less than 200,000 inhabitants, is alternative to...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-7-2
Definitions. In this Division: (a) "Consolidation" means the process by which 2 or more municipalities are simultaneously dissolved and a new municipality is incorporated....
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-7-3
Power to Consolidate. Any 2 or more municipalities, located in one or more counties each with less than 200,000 inhabitants according to the most...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-7-4
Public Question; Consolidation Ordinance. A public question for consolidation shall be initiated in accordance with Section 28-7 of The Election Code, as now or...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-7-5
Form of government. The consolidation ordinance may specify any form of government established by this Code or may define any other form of government...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-7-6
Publication of consolidation ordinance. At any time not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the referendum thereon, the consolidation ordinance...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-7-7
Referendum. A consolidation ordinance shall be effective only upon its approval by a referendum conducted pursuant to Section 28-7 of The Election Code, as...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-7-8
Approval of Referendum by Voters in Less Than All of the Consolidating Municipalities. Unless otherwise provided in the consolidation ordinance, if the consolidation referendum...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-7-9
Form of Question. The question to be submitted to the voters of each consolidating municipality for approval shall be in substantially the following form:...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-7-10
Transition Matters. (a) The corporate authorities of each municipality in which the consolidation ordinance has been approved by the voters shall adopt the consolidation...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-7-11
Elections of Initial Officers of Consolidated Municipalities. (a) The day of the first election of officers of the consolidated municipality shall be the next...
- Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 7-7-12
Time and Effect of Consolidation. (a) Consolidation shall occur immediately upon the taking of office of the corporate authorities of the consolidated municipality. The...
Last modified: February 18, 2015