Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 Special Districts: Article -

• Illinois Chicago Drainage District Act. - 70 ILCS 615, Section 0.01
  Short title. This Act may be cited as the Chicago Drainage District Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
• Illinois Chicago Drainage District Act. - 70 ILCS 615, Section 1
  That the City of Chicago is hereby organized as a drainage district, and the corporate authorities of such city may exercise the powers conferred...
• Illinois Chicago Drainage District Act. - 70 ILCS 615, Section 2
  Such corporate authorities may lay out, construct and maintain a cut-off drain or ditch for the diversion of the flood waters of the Des...
• Illinois Chicago Drainage District Act. - 70 ILCS 615, Section 3
  No more of the water of the Des Plaines river shall be diverted by any such cut-off than the excess above the ordinary water...
• Illinois Chicago Drainage District Act. - 70 ILCS 615, Section 4
  Such corporate authorities may construct and maintain, if the same shall be found desirable and expedient, a dam across what is known as the...
• Illinois Chicago Drainage District Act. - 70 ILCS 615, Section 5
  Such corporate authorities may acquire by purchase, gift, condemnation or otherwise all the real and personal property, rights of way and easements within or...
• Illinois Chicago Drainage District Act. - 70 ILCS 615, Section 6
  Whenever it shall be necessary to take or damage private property, for any purpose contemplated by this Act, whether within or without said drainage district,...
• Illinois Chicago Drainage District Act. - 70 ILCS 615, Section 7
  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...

Last modified: February 18, 2015