Illinois Compiled Statutes 65 Municipalities: Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago
Adoption of Article
City Officers
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-5
Mayor; Term of office. (a) The mayor of the city of Chicago shall be elected in 1943 and quadrennially thereafter in a nonpartisan election. The...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-5a
Whenever the date for the runoff election of the mayor of the city of Chicago conflicts with the celebration of Passover, that election shall...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-5.1
Vice Mayor - Election - Duties - Compensation.) Following election and qualification of aldermen at a general election as provided by Section 21-22 of...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-6
Mayor may release prisoners - Pardon board. The mayor shall have the power to release any person imprisoned for violation of any city ordinance;...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-7
Compensation of officers. The compensation of all officers shall be by salary. No officer shall be allowed any fees, perquisites or emoluments or any...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-8
Interest on public funds. Neither the treasurer nor any other officer of the city of Chicago having public funds in his possession or custody...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-9
Deposit of funds - Bids - Designation of banks or savings and loan associations. It shall be the duty of the comptroller at least...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-10
Official bonds - Civil service employees not to be removed. The city council shall have the power to fix the amount and penalty of...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-11
Corporation counsel. The head of the law department of the city shall be the corporation counsel. The corporation counsel shall be and act as...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-12
City clerk and city treasurer; election; tenure. At the time of election of the mayor there shall be elected also in a nonpartisan election a...
Powers of the City Council
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-13
Powers. The city council shall continue to have all the powers, obligations and duties vested in and imposed upon such body by the other...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-14
Member residency before election; member not to hold other office. (a) No member may be elected or appointed to the city council after the effective...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-15
Mayor may submit substitute ordinance. If any ordinance of the city council be returned by the mayor to the council without his approval, the...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-16
Veto by mayor. Upon the veto of any ordinance by the mayor, if two-thirds of all the members elected to the city council fail...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-17
Powers - Use of space over streets. The city council may also regulate the use of space over streets, alleys and public places of...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-18
May acquire parks. The city of Chicago may acquire, by purchase or otherwise, municipal parks, play grounds, public beaches and bathing places, and improve,...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-19
Eminent domain. The city may exercise the right of eminent domain by condemnation proceedings in conformity with the provisions of the constitution and statutes...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-19.5
Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any power granted under this Act to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-20
Abate nuisances - Regulate hospitals. The city council shall by ordinance, be empowered to declare and define nuisances and abate the same, and shall...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-21
Excess condemnation. In any case brought under the statutes of the State of Illinois for the acquirement of property through the exercise of the...
Election of Aldermen
Nonpartisan Elections
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-24
Application - Recall elections. The provisions of this Article shall apply to all elections for aldermen in the city of Chicago. The name of...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-25
Times for elections.) General elections for aldermen shall be held in the year or years fixed by law for holding the same, on the...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-26
Candidates receiving majority elected - Supplementary elections. The candidate receiving a majority of the votes cast for alderman in each ward at any general...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-27
Election contest-Complaint. Any candidate whose name appears on the ballots used in any ward of the city at any election for alderman, may contest...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-28
Nomination by petition. (a) All nominations for alderman of any ward in the city shall be by petition. All petitions for nominations of candidates shall...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-29
Withdrawals and substitution of candidates. Any candidate for alderman under the provisions of this article may withdraw his name as a candidate by filing with...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-30
Form of ballot. Ballots to be used at any general, supplementary or special election for aldermen held under the provisions of this Article, in addition...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-31
Allotment of ballots by precincts. Each precinct of any ward shall be allotted at least ten per cent more ballots than there are registered...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-32
Party designations prohibited - Ballot to be separate from other ballots. No party name, party initial, party circle platform, principle, appellation or distinguishing mark of...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-33
Challengers and watchers. Any candidate for alderman under the terms of this article may appoint in writing over his signature not more than one...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-34
Certificate of election. No certificate of election shall be given to any candidate who shall be declared elected at any general aldermanic election until...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-35
Election laws apply when consistent. All laws in force in the city of Chicago governing elections for municipal offices or applicable thereto and not...
Redistricting City Into Fifty Wards
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-36
City to have fifty wards. The city of Chicago shall be divided into fifty wards. In the formation of wards the population of each...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-37
Additional territory to be annexed to existing wards. Whenever territory is annexed to the city, the city council shall by ordinance declare it a...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-38
Redistricting every ten years. If the city council has not redistricted the city of Chicago since the taking of the national census of 1940,...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-39
When redistricting ordinance takes effect - Substitute ordinance may be submitted. No such redistricting ordinance shall take effect until the expiration of 15 days...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-40
Failure of council to act - One-fifth of the aldermen may submit redistricting ordinance. If the city council shall fail at any time to...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-41
Redistricting ordinance submitted - Form of ballot. If the question of the adoption of one of two or more redistricting ordinances is submitted to...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-42
Redistricting ordinance submitted - When in effect. If the question of the adoption of one of two or more redistricting ordinances is submitted to...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-43
Election and ballot laws to apply where consistent. All election and ballot laws in force in the city of Chicago governing the submission of...
Local Transportation Companies
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-44
"Public utility" defined - Franchise from city council necessary for use of streets or public ways. The words "public utility" as used in this...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-45
City may require extensions. The city of Chicago shall have power and authority to require every public utility, as defined in this article, to...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-46
Removal of street car tracks. The city of Chicago shall have authority to order the removal of any street car tracks upon the streets...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-47
Examination as to compliance. The city of Chicago shall have power with respect to all public utilities as defined in this article to examine...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-48
Power to city of Chicago exclusive. No order, decision, rule or regulation heretofore or hereafter made by the State Public Utilities Commission or by...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-49
Not to affect Sections 14-101 through 14-110 of The Public Utilities Act. Nothing contained in Sections 21-44 to 21-49, inclusive, shall be construed to...
- Illinois Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941. - 65 ILCS 20, Section 21-50
The City of Chicago may establish community based committees which shall consist of community leaders, and such committees shall coordinate all State and federal...
Last modified: February 18, 2015