Chapter 65 — MUNICIPALITIES

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-5) Sec. 11-80-5. The corporate authorities of each municipality, with the concurrence of two-thirds of all of the alderpersons, trustees or commissioners elected therein, may levy and collect annually, in addition to all other taxes no…

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-6) Sec. 11-80-6. The corporate authorities of each municipality may provide for the cleaning of streets and other municipal property. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-7) Sec. 11-80-7. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate the openings in streets and other municipal property for the laying, building, repairing, and removing of gas or water mains and pipes, or sewers, tunnels, an…

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-8) Sec. 11-80-8. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate the use of the space over the streets, alleys, other municipal property, and public places of the city, and upon payment of proper compensation, to be fixed b…

(65 ILCS 5/11-80-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-9) Sec. 11-80-9. The corporate authorities of each municipality may prevent and regulate all amusements and activities having a tendency to annoy or endanger persons or property on the sidewalks, streets, and other municipal property. …

(65 ILCS 5/11-81-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-81-1) Sec. 11-81-1. The corporate authorities of each municipality, whether incorporated under the general law or a special charter, which includes wholly within its corporate limits a township or townships, or a road district, may levy, …

(65 ILCS 5/11-81-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-81-2) Sec. 11-81-2. The city council of any city and the board of trustees of any village or incorporated town, whether organized under the general law or special charter, which does not correspond to the description set out in Section 11…

(65 ILCS 5/11-82-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-82-1) Sec. 11-82-1. The corporate authorities of any city or village with a population of less than 20,000 may, for the purpose of oiling the streets or public highways within the corporate limits of the city or village, direct the paymen…

(65 ILCS 5/11-83-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-83-1) Sec. 11-83-1. In addition to all other means or methods authorized by law for the repair, maintenance, resurfacing, or reconstruction of street pavements, any municipality, by ordinance, may provide for the resurfacing of streets pa…

(65 ILCS 5/11-83-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-83-2) Sec. 11-83-2. The corporate authorities of any municipality may, of their own motion, pass ordinances providing for the resurfacing of streets as specified in Section 11-83-1, and for the nature, character, and locality, and descrip…

(65 ILCS 5/11-84-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-84-1) Sec. 11-84-1. In addition to any other manner authorized by law, any municipality, by ordinance, may provide for the construction and repair of sidewalks therein, along or upon any streets or part of streets therein. The corporate a…

(65 ILCS 5/11-84-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-84-2) Sec. 11-84-2. Such an ordinance shall define the location of the proposed sidewalk or the sidewalk to be repaired with reasonable certainty, shall prescribe its width, the materials of which it is to be constructed and the manner of…

(65 ILCS 5/11-84-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-84-3) Sec. 11-84-3. Such an ordinance may provide that a bill of the costs of the sidewalk, showing the cost of the construction or repair and supervision thereof, shall be made by the officer or board designated by the ordinance to take …

(65 ILCS 5/11-84-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-84-4) Sec. 11-84-4. Upon failure to collect the special tax as hereinbefore provided in this Division 84, the municipal collector, or the officer designated to collect the tax on or before the first day of August in each year, shall make …

(65 ILCS 5/11-84-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-84-5) Sec. 11-84-5. When the specified general officer of the county receives such a report, he shall at once proceed to obtain judgment against the lots, blocks, tracts, or parcels of land enumerated therein for the special tax remaining…

(65 ILCS 5/11-84-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-84-6) Sec. 11-84-6. Whenever payment of the cost of such sidewalk is required to be made in part by special tax and in part out of any general fund of the municipality, and the owner of a lot, block, tract, or parcel of land constructs or…

(65 ILCS 5/11-84-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-84-7) Sec. 11-84-7. Except as herein otherwise provided for municipalities of more than 500,000 population, all contracts for the construction or repair of sidewalks as provided in this Division 84, when the expense thereof exceeds $1,500…

(65 ILCS 5/11-84-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-84-8) Sec. 11-84-8. If a special tax for the construction or repair of a sidewalk is annulled by the corporate authorities or set aside by any court, a new ordinance may be passed and a new tax may be made and returned. This power to pass…

(65 ILCS 5/11-85-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-85-1) Sec. 11-85-1. Municipalities lying within one or more townships, or whose boundaries are coextensive with the boundaries of a township, have the power to enter into a contract with any township within which the municipality lies, or…

(65 ILCS 5/11-85-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-85-2) Sec. 11-85-2. The corporate authorities of such municipality and the commissioner of highways in and for such township, in the manner they agree upon, shall procure (1) detailed plans and specifications of the proposed improvement, …

(65 ILCS 5/11-85-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-85-3) Sec. 11-85-3. If a municipality desires to pay its proportion of the cost of such an improvement by a special assessment or a special tax upon the property within the municipality benefited by the improvement, either before or after…

(65 ILCS 5/11-85-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-85-4) Sec. 11-85-4. A municipality participating in the construction of an improvement specified in this Division 85 has jurisdiction over the part thereof lying within the corporate limits of the municipality. The participating township …

(65 ILCS 5/11-86-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-86-1) Sec. 11-86-1. Any city, incorporated town or village may construct and maintain an elevated way in or upon any street, and construct and maintain all necessary approaches, inclines and superstructures, and may by ordinance authorize…

(65 ILCS 5/11-86-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-86-2) Sec. 11-86-2. Any city, incorporated town or village may by ordinance duly passed grant to any commission or board having jurisdiction over parks and boulevards the right to take and improve by means of surface or elevated ways for …

(65 ILCS 5/11-86-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-86-3) Sec. 11-86-3. Where any park is located wholly within any city, the city council of such city shall have power by ordinance to extend streets through such park as the needs of the public shall demand. Such needs to be determined by …

(65 ILCS 5/11-86-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-86-4) Sec. 11-86-4. If the street designated in Section 11-86-3 is to be used only for boulevard purposes, it may be extended through such park at the grade of other roadways to be crossed by such street so to be extended within such park…

(65 ILCS 5/11-87-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-87-1) Sec. 11-87-1. Whenever in the judgment of the corporate authorities of any city or village it becomes necessary to change or re-locate the channel, course, or bed of any natural or artificial water course or stream within the corpor…

(65 ILCS 5/11-87-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-87-2) Sec. 11-87-2. For the purpose of this Division 87, a water course or stream shall be construed to include all banks, beds, and waters connected with, adjacent, and leading to the watercourse, or stream. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)…

(65 ILCS 5/11-87-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-87-3) Sec. 11-87-3. Whenever any portion within the corporate limits of a city or village of a fork, branch, arm, canal, or slip terminating within the city or village of any natural or artificial watercourse or stream, or a fork, branch,…

(65 ILCS 5/11-87-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-87-4) Sec. 11-87-4. The rights, powers, and authority granted in the preceding sections of this Division 87 shall be subject to the provisions of Section 18 of "An Act in relation to the regulation of the rivers, lakes and streams of the …

(65 ILCS 5/11-87-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-87-5) Sec. 11-87-5. Whenever any city or village has changed, altered, or relocated or provides by ordinance to change, alter, or relocate the channel, course, or bed of any natural or artificial watercourse or stream, within the corporat…

(65 ILCS 5/11-88-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-88-1) Sec. 11-88-1. The corporate authorities of each municipality may grant to any political subdivision, municipal corporation or public authority of this state with authority to construct and operate transportation facilities, the righ…

(65 ILCS 5/11-89-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-89-1) Sec. 11-89-1. Subject to the provisions of Section 11-89-2, every municipality may grant consent, permission, and authority to construct, reconstruct, and maintain and operate street railways, railroads and public utility motor vehi…

(65 ILCS 5/11-89-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-89-2) Sec. 11-89-2. No ordinance of any municipality granting a terminable permit shall become effective until a proposition to approve the ordinance has been submitted to the electors of the municipality and has been approved by a majori…

(65 ILCS 5/11-89-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-89-3) Sec. 11-89-3. The term "railroads" as used in this Division 89 does not include a railroad constituting or used as a part of a trunk line railroad system operated as a common carrier of freight and passengers. (Source: Laws 1961, p.…

(65 ILCS 5/11-9-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-9-1) Sec. 11-9-1. The fire inspector of every municipality with a population of 500,000 or more shall investigate the cause, origin, and circumstances of every fire occurring in the municipality and shall especially investigate whether it …

(65 ILCS 5/11-9-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-9-2) Sec. 11-9-2. If he deems it necessary, the specified fire inspector shall take, or cause to be taken, the sworn testimony of all persons supposed to be cognizant of any facts or to have means of knowledge in relation to the matters as…

(65 ILCS 5/11-9-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-9-3) Sec. 11-9-3. The specified fire inspector has the powers of a trial judge for the purpose of summoning and compelling the attendance of witnesses before him to testify in relation to any matter which is, by the provisions of Section 1…

(65 ILCS 5/11-9-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-9-4) Sec. 11-9-4. Any owner or occupant of a building or premises who fails to comply with the orders of the fire inspector, as specified in Section 11-9-3, shall be guilty of a petty offense and shall be fined not less than $10 nor more t…

(65 ILCS 5/11-90-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-90-1) Sec. 11-90-1. Upon compliance with Section 11-90-2, and with "An Act in regard to street railroads, and to repeal certain acts herein referred to," approved March 7, 1899, as amended, the corporate authorities of each municipality m…

(65 ILCS 5/11-90-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-90-2) Sec. 11-90-2. The corporate authorities shall not grant the use of or the right to lay tracks in any street of the municipality to any railroad or street railway corporation except upon the petition of the owners of record of the la…

(65 ILCS 5/11-90-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-90-3) Sec. 11-90-3. Subject to the provisions of Section 11-90-4, every municipality may grant permission for a term longer than 20 years, but not exceeding 40 years, for locating, constructing, reconstructing, maintaining, operating, and…

(65 ILCS 5/11-90-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-90-4) Sec. 11-90-4. No ordinance of any municipality granting permission under Section 11-90-3 for a term longer than 20 years shall become operative until a proposition to approve the ordinance has been submitted to the electors of the m…

(65 ILCS 5/11-90-5) Sec. 11-90-5. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 91-147, eff. 7-16-99. Repealed internally, eff. 9-30-99.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-90-6) Sec. 11-90-6. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 91-147, eff. 7-16-99. Repealed internally, eff. 9-30-99.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-90-7) Sec. 11-90-7. Continuation of certain powers derived from the Capital City Railroad Relocation Authority. (a) All of the statutory powers and duties that the Capital City Railroad Relocation Authority had to implement the agreements that it entered into for Us…

(65 ILCS 5/11-91-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-91-1) Sec. 11-91-1. Whenever the corporate authorities of any municipality, whether incorporated by special act or under any general law, determine that the public interest will be subserved by vacating any street or alley, or part thereo…

(65 ILCS 5/11-91-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-91-2) Sec. 11-91-2. Except in cases where the deed, or other instrument, dedicating a street or alley, or part thereof, has expressly provided for a specific devolution of the title thereto upon the abandonment or vacation thereof, whenev…

(65 ILCS 5/11-91.1-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-91.1-1) Sec. 11-91.1-1. The municipality is authorized to pay, as part of the cost of construction of any project on the federal aid system of streets and highways, to a person displaced by said highway project the actual reasonable exp…

(65 ILCS 5/11-91.1-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-91.1-2) Sec. 11-91.1-2. In lieu of the actual moving expenses heretofore authorized to be paid, the municipality may pay any person displaced, from a dwelling, who elects to accept such payment, a moving expense allowance determined acc…