Illinois Compiled Statutes 65 Municipalities: Article 2 - Organization Of Municipalities

Division 1. General Provisions

• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-1-1
  All courts shall take judicial notice of the existence of all cities and villages incorporated under this Code, of the changes made in their...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-1-2
  No municipality shall incorporate under any other general law which may be in force for the incorporation of municipalities. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-1-3
  All ordinances, resolutions, and by-laws in force in any municipality when it incorporates under this Code, shall continue in full force and effect until...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-1-4
  All rights and property of every kind and description, which were vested in any municipality, shall vest in the same city or village upon...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-1-5
  The chief executive officer of any city or village which has incorporated under this Code, within 3 months after incorporation, shall file with the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-1-6
  Any existing municipality which, more than 75 years prior to July 1, 1955, changed its corporate organization under the provisions of "An Act to...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-1-7
  Before action is had upon any petition for incorporation of a city or village, the name proposed to be given to such municipality shall...

Division 2. Incorporation of Cities

• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-2-1
  Whenever a number of electors of a city equal to 1/8 of the electors of the city voting at the last preceding municipal election...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-2-1.1
  As used in this Division 2, "immobile dwelling" means any dwelling place except a tent, camp trailer, house car or house trailer whether or...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-2-3
  The question shall be in substantially the following form: -------------------------------------------------------------- Shall the city of.... YESincorporate as a city under --------------------------------the general law? NO-------------------------------------------------------------- The...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-2-4
  Any incorporated town or village having a population of not less than 2,500 persons including 2,000 living in immobile dwellings, may incorporate as a...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-2-5
  Whenever any area of contiguous territory, not exceeding 4 square miles, and not already included within the corporate limits of any municipality has residing...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-2-6
  Any 200 electors residing within the area may file with the circuit clerk of the county in which the area is situated, a petition...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-2-7
  After the filing of the petition but not less than 5 days prior to the date fixed for hearing, any person owning real property...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-2-8
  The proposition shall be in substantially the following form: -------------------------------------------------------------- Shall the territory (here describe YESit) be incorporated as a city under -------------------the general...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-2-9
  The election for city officers in any incorporated town or village which has voted to incorporate as a city shall be held at the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-2-10
  Where cities are incorporated under Sections 2-2-5 through 2-2-8, the court, specified in such sections, shall cause the circuit court clerk to perform the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-2-11
  The city officers elected at the initial election under either Section 2-2-9 or Section 2-2-10 shall hold their respective offices for such terms as...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-2-12
  Cities incorporated under this Code shall be bodies politic and corporate under the name of "City of (name)," and under that name may sue...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-2-13
  Any city office, in which deeds, mortgages, or other instruments were required or authorized to be recorded by the city's special charter in lieu...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-2-14
  In any county of between 150,000 and 1,000,000 population which has adopted an official plan under "An Act to provide for regional planning and...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-2-15
  Each boundary of the municipality shall extend to the far side of any adjacent highway not included in any other municipality and shall include...

Division 3. Incorporation of Villages

• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-3-1
  Whenever 30 electors in any incorporated town petition the corporate authorities of the town to submit a question whether the town will incorporate as...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-3-1.1
  As used in this Division 3, "immobile dwelling" means any dwelling place except a tent, camp trailer or house car whether or not such tent,...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-3-2
  The question shall be in substantially the following form: -------------------------------------------------------------- Shall the incorporated town of YES.... incorporate as a village under -----------------------the general law?...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-3-3
  The corporate authorities shall cause a statement of the result of the referendum to be entered upon the records of the town. (Source: P.A.
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-3-4
  If a majority of the votes cast on such question favor incorporation as a village under the general law, such town is incorporated as...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-3-5
  Incorporation of village; petition. Whenever in any county of less than 150,000 population as determined by the last preceding federal census, any area of contiguous...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-3-5a
  Incorporation of village. (a) Whenever in any county of 150,000 or more population as determined by the last preceding federal census any area of contiguous...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-3-6
  Upon the filing of such a petition with the circuit clerk, the court shall hear testimony and rule that the area under consideration is...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-3-7
  Thereupon the court shall order the election of village officers at the general municipal election in accordance with the general election law and for...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-3-8
  Villages incorporated under this Code shall be bodies politic and corporate under the name of "Village of (name)", and under that name may sue...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-3-9
  Upon the filing of a petition signed by one-fourth of the registered voters of any city, the city clerk shall certify, in the manner...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-3-10
  Any part of any village or incorporated town, lying upon the border thereof, and having not less than 500 inhabitants living in immobile dwellings...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-3-11
  Upon the presentation of such petition, the court, in accordance with the general election law, shall consider the petition and enter appropriate orders for...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-3-12
  Two or more petitions, each for wholly different territory, may be acted upon. The questions proposed in these petitions may be submitted to vote...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-3-13
  Whenever the territory affected by the election ordered under Sections 2-3-10 and 2-3-11 is under the City Election Law, and within the jurisdiction of...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-3-14
  No election on the same question concerning territory within the same boundaries, shall be had, after one election thereon, until 10 months have elapsed....
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-3-15
  If a majority of the electors in such village or incorporated town, as well as a majority of the electors residing in the territory...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-3-16
  Upon the creation of a new village as specified in Sections 2-3-10 through 2-3-15 village officers shall be elected in the manner prescribed in...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-3-17
  In the application of Section 2-3-10 through 2-3-16, Sections 7-1-31 through 7-1-41, Section 7-1-43 and Section 7-1-44 shall govern in all matters affecting the...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-3-18
  In any county of between 150,000 and 1,000,000 population which has adopted an official plan under "An Act to provide for regional planning and...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-3-19
  Each boundary of the municipality shall extend to the far side of any adjacent highway not included in any other municipality and shall include...

Division 4. Changing Name

• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-4-1
  Whenever a petition, signed by electors of any municipality, numbering at least one-half of those who voted for the officers therein at the last...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-4-2
  Before action is had upon such petition, the name proposed to be given to such municipality shall be filed with the Secretary of State....
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-4-3
  The Secretary of State shall keep in his office a file in alphabetical order of the municipalities in Illinois. This file of names shall...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-4-4
  The corporate authorities shall fix the time when such petition shall be considered, and publish a notice thereof at least once, not more than...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-4-5
  Such corporate authorities shall hold a hearing on such petition and all remonstrances thereto, at the time fixed in such notice, or at any...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-4-6
  If a change of name is made, the corporate authorities shall file a copy of the order making the change with the Secretary of...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-4-7
  No rights, duties, or privileges of such municipality, or those of any person, existing before the change of name, shall be affected by a...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-4-8
  If the name of any municipality is changed without complying with this Code, nevertheless, all proceedings instituted or acts done under the name as...
• Illinois Municipal Code. - 65 ILCS 5, Section 2-4-9
  Upon petition of a majority of the electors residing within any unincorporated town or unincorporated village, the circuit court of the county within which...

Last modified: February 18, 2015