Chapter 65 — MUNICIPALITIES

(65 ILCS 5/11-66-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-66-1) Sec. 11-66-1. Every city and village with a population of less than 500,000 in the manner provided in this Division 66, may establish and maintain a municipal coliseum to be used for general educational and amusement purposes for th…

(65 ILCS 5/11-66-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-66-10) Sec. 11-66-10. The board of directors, with the approval of the corporate authorities may acquire a site for a municipal coliseum by condemnation in the name of the municipality. Any proceeding to condemn for this purpose shall be…

(65 ILCS 5/11-66-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-66-11) Sec. 11-66-11. All municipal coliseums established and maintained under "An Act to enable cities and villages having a population not to exceed five hundred thousand (500,000), to establish and maintain public and municipal colise…

(65 ILCS 5/11-66-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-66-2) Sec. 11-66-2. Whenever 100 or more electors of a specified municipality present a written petition to the municipal clerk asking that an annual tax be levied for the establishment and maintenance of a municipal coliseum in the munic…

(65 ILCS 5/11-66-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-66-3) Sec. 11-66-3. If a majority of all votes cast at the election are in favor of the tax levy for a municipal coliseum, the corporate authorities, in the next annual tax levy, shall include a tax not to exceed .25% of the value, as equ…

(65 ILCS 5/11-66-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-66-4) Sec. 11-66-4. Whenever a one year period has elapsed after which a municipal coliseum has been sold by the municipality and during which the tax authorized by this Division 66 has not been levied, the municipal authorities may pass …

(65 ILCS 5/11-66-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-66-5) Sec. 11-66-5. Whenever a specified municipality decides to establish and maintain a municipal coliseum, the mayor or president of the municipality, with the approval of the corporate authorities, shall appoint a board of 3 directors…

(65 ILCS 5/11-66-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-66-6) Sec. 11-66-6. These directors shall meet immediately after their appointment and organize by the election of one of their members as president and one as secretary. The president and secretary shall have the duties usually performed…

(65 ILCS 5/11-66-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-66-7) Sec. 11-66-7. Subject to the approval of the corporate authorities, the board of directors, for the purpose of assisting in establishing a municipal coliseum, has the power to borrow money on the coliseum property, and to issue bond…

(65 ILCS 5/11-66-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-66-8) Sec. 11-66-8. The board of directors of a municipal coliseum shall make a full report of receipts and expenditures to the corporate authorities annually on or before July first of each year, and annually, prior to the passage of the…

(65 ILCS 5/11-66-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-66-9) Sec. 11-66-9. Every municipal coliseum shall be for the free use and benefit of the inhabitants of the municipality wherein the coliseum is established, for lectures, concerts, public assemblies, other general educational purposes, …

(65 ILCS 5/11-67-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-67-1) Sec. 11-67-1. Subject to a referendum vote, any municipality having a population of 75,000 or less, may acquire, construct, manage, control, maintain, and operate within its corporate limits a municipal coliseum with all necessary a…

(65 ILCS 5/11-67-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-67-10) Sec. 11-67-10. If a majority of the electors voting on the proposition in any municipality have voted for a municipal coliseum under "An Act to enable cities, villages and incorporated towns having a population of seventy-five tho…

(65 ILCS 5/11-67-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-67-2) Sec. 11-67-2. Whenever, in a specified municipality not less than 5% of the electors voting at the last preceding general municipal election petition the municipal clerk for the submission to a referendum vote the proposition of est…

(65 ILCS 5/11-67-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-67-3) Sec. 11-67-3. Every such municipality has the power to acquire by dedication, gift, lease, contract, or purchase, all property and rights, necessary or proper, within the corporate limits of the municipality for municipal coliseum p…

(65 ILCS 5/11-67-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-67-4) Sec. 11-67-4. Every such municipality has the power to levy and collect taxes for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a municipal coliseum. However, any tax levied to establish and maintain such a coliseum shall not exceed .…

(65 ILCS 5/11-67-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-67-5) Sec. 11-67-5. Every such municipality has the power to borrow money on the credit of the municipality and to issue bonds, in the manner provided by law, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a municipal coliseum. But no is…

(65 ILCS 5/11-67-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-67-6) Sec. 11-67-6. Every such municipality which establishes and owns a municipal coliseum has the power to license or lease all or any part of the coliseum to assemblages for definite short periods of time, upon such terms and compensat…

(65 ILCS 5/11-67-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-67-7) Sec. 11-67-7. The corporate authorities may provide for granting the free use of such a municipal coliseum to the inhabitants of the municipality, or to local bodies or organizations existing within the municipality, for civic, patr…

(65 ILCS 5/11-67-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-67-8) Sec. 11-67-8. The corporate authorities from time to time may establish by ordinance all needful rules and regulations for the management and control of such a municipal coliseum. All these ordinances, for the violation of which fin…

(65 ILCS 5/11-67-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-67-9) Sec. 11-67-9. Every municipality owning and operating such a municipal coliseum shall keep books of account for the coliseum separate and distinct from other municipal accounts and in such manner as to show the true and complete fin…

(65 ILCS 5/11-68-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-68-1) Sec. 11-68-1. For the purpose of promoting the health and welfare of its citizens, any city with a population of more than 30,000 whose corporate limits coincide with the limits of the township in which the city is located, subject …

(65 ILCS 5/11-68-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-68-2) Sec. 11-68-2. Whenever, in such a city, not less than 100 of its electors petition the city clerk for submission to a referendum vote the proposition of acquiring and maintaining a stadium and athletic field, the proposition shall b…

(65 ILCS 5/11-68-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-68-3) Sec. 11-68-3. If a majority of the votes cast on the specified proposition are in favor of acquiring and maintaining a stadium and athletic field, a board of 5 stadium and athletic field commissioners shall be elected at the next re…

(65 ILCS 5/11-68-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-68-4) Sec. 11-68-4. The board of stadium and athletic field commissioners elected pursuant to the provisions of this Division 68 shall: (1) select a suitable site of not more than 10 acres in area, within or without the city, for a stadiu…

(65 ILCS 5/11-68-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-68-5) Sec. 11-68-5. Bonds of a city for raising funds to acquire or to improve or to acquire and improve a stadium and athletic field may be issued in the following manner: Whenever 100 or more electors of any specified city, which has el…

(65 ILCS 5/11-68-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-68-6) Sec. 11-68-6. For the purpose of providing a fund for the maintenance and development of the stadium and athletic field and for the purpose of retiring stadium and athletic field bonds, the board of stadium and athletic field commis…

(65 ILCS 5/11-68-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-68-7) Sec. 11-68-7. Any stadium and athletic field which was acquired by such a city and which, immediately prior to January 1, 1942, was being maintained under "An Act to authorize the establishment and maintenance of stadium and athleti…

(65 ILCS 5/11-69-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-69-1) Sec. 11-69-1. Whenever the territories of any 2 or more municipalities in the State of Illinois comprise the same or partly the same territory, the municipalities concerned have the power jointly to purchase land and to construct bu…

(65 ILCS 5/11-69-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-69-2) Sec. 11-69-2. The purpose of Section 11-69-1 is for the benefit of municipalities with common territory and whose building needs can be most efficiently and economically handled by joint buildings for the several municipalities. Sec…

(65 ILCS 5/11-7-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-7-1) Sec. 11-7-1. The corporate authorities of any city or village containing less than 500,000 inhabitants may levy, annually, a tax not to exceed .075% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of all taxable p…

(65 ILCS 5/11-7-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-7-3) Sec. 11-7-3. In any municipality which is authorized to levy a tax under Section 11-7-1 of this Division 7, the tax rate limit so authorized may be increased to not to exceed .40%, or beginning in taxable year 2000, .60%, of the value…

(65 ILCS 5/11-70-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-70-1) Sec. 11-70-1. In any municipality, whether incorporated under general law or special charter, in which the municipal hall, or any municipal jail or police station, fire department house, or public library is destroyed or seriously i…

(65 ILCS 5/11-70-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-70-2) Sec. 11-70-2. Whenever the corporate authorities of any municipality designated in Section 11-70-1 decides to rebuild or restore any of the specified buildings, it shall make provision therefor by an ordinance. This ordinance shall …

(65 ILCS 5/11-70-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-70-3) Sec. 11-70-3. All money received from this public building restoration fund tax shall be deposited in the municipal treasury to the credit of that fund. All money so received shall be kept separate and apart from other money of the …

(65 ILCS 5/11-71-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-71-1) Sec. 11-71-1. Any municipality is hereby authorized to: (a) Acquire by purchase or otherwise, own, construct, equip, manage, control, erect, improve, extend, maintain and operate motor vehicle parking lot or lots, garage or garages …

(65 ILCS 5/11-71-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-71-10) Sec. 11-71-10. In addition to the other powers granted in this Division, the corporate authorities may lease the space over any municipally owned parking lot to any person, firm or corporation if the corporate authorities first de…

(65 ILCS 5/11-71-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-71-11) Sec. 11-71-11. This Division 71 shall not be construed as authorizing any municipality having a population of 500,000 or more inhabitants to make any expenditure under this Division 71 except from revenue bonds as above provided o…

(65 ILCS 5/11-71-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-71-12) Sec. 11-71-12. In addition to the other powers granted under this Division 71, the corporate authorities of any municipality may, by ordinance, provide for the issuance of its general obligation bonds for the purpose of acquiring,…

(65 ILCS 5/11-71-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-71-2) Sec. 11-71-2. All bonds issued under authority of this Division 71 shall bear interest at not more than the greater of (i) the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contra…

(65 ILCS 5/11-71-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-71-3) Sec. 11-71-3. The corporate authorities of any such municipality availing of the provisions of this Division 71, other than that concerning advertising on parking meters, shall adopt an ordinance describing in a general way the cont…

(65 ILCS 5/11-71-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-71-4) Sec. 11-71-4. Whenever bonds are issued as provided by this Division 71, it shall be the duty of the corporate authorities to establish charges and fees for the use of any such parking facilities sufficient at all times to pay maint…

(65 ILCS 5/11-71-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-71-5) Sec. 11-71-5. Whenever revenue bonds are issued under this Division 71, the revenues derived from the operation of the project, except as otherwise provided in paragraph (c) of Section 11-71-1, shall be set aside as collected and be…

(65 ILCS 5/11-71-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-71-6) Sec. 11-71-6. The provisions of this Division 71 and of any ordinance or other proceeding authorizing the issuance of bonds under this Division 71 shall constitute a contract with the holders of such bonds, and any holder of a bond …

(65 ILCS 5/11-71-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-71-7) Sec. 11-71-7. The corporate authorities of any municipality are hereby granted authority to make all reasonable rules and regulations not in conflict with the laws of this state or the ordinances of such municipality regarding the m…

(65 ILCS 5/11-71-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-71-8) Sec. 11-71-8. The corporate authorities of any such municipality availing of the provisions of this Division 71 are hereby given the authority to lease all or any part of any such parking facilities, and to fix and collect the renta…

(65 ILCS 5/11-71-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-71-9) Sec. 11-71-9. Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (c) of Section 11-71-1, this Division 71 shall not be construed as authorizing any municipality to engage in any proprietary activity at or with any such parking facilities oth…

(65 ILCS 5/11-72-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-72-1) Sec. 11-72-1. The corporate authorities of each municipality may plant trees upon the streets and other municipal property. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-73-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-73-1) Sec. 11-73-1. The corporate authorities of any municipality may levy, annually, a tax of not to exceed .05% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of all taxable property therein, for the current year, …

(65 ILCS 5/11-73-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-73-2) Sec. 11-73-2. This Division 73 shall not be in force in any municipality until the question of its adoption is submitted to the electors of the municipality and approved by a majority of those voting on the question. The municipal c…