Chapter 65 — MUNICIPALITIES

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-22) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-22) Sec. 7-1-22. Upon the annexation of the whole of a municipality to another municipality, all public books, papers, and documents filed in any office or with any officer of the annexed municipality, shall be transferred to and filed in…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-23) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-23) Sec. 7-1-23. Upon the annexation of the whole of a municipality to another municipality, all policemen and firemen lawfully in the employ of the annexed municipality shall be transferred to and become a part of the police department a…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-24) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-24) Sec. 7-1-24. On petition in writing, signed by one-half of the electors and one-half of the owners of record of land in any territory, not exceeding in area 160 acres, situated within any municipality, which territory is contiguous to…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-25) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-25) Sec. 7-1-25. Any unoccupied territory, lying along the boundary line between 2 adjoining municipalities, may be excluded from one of the adjoining municipalities and annexed to the other adjoining municipality, as follows: The corpora…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-26) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-26) Sec. 7-1-26. Any territory containing 60 acres or less lying along one or both sides of the boundary line between 2 adjoining municipalities, and contiguous to a third municipality may be excluded from one or both of the adjoining mun…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-27) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-27) Sec. 7-1-27. Territory, within a municipality, which (1) is not less than one-half square mile in area, but less than the whole of the municipality, and which (2) is contiguous to another municipality, may be annexed to the latter mun…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-28) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-28) Sec. 7-1-28. The question shall be in substantially the following form: -------------------------------------------------------------- Shall the territory (here describe it) be disconnected YES from the municipality of.... -----------…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-29) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-29) Sec. 7-1-29. If, as provided in Sections 7-1-16, 7-1-17, 7-1-27 and 7-1-28, petitions are presented to the court for the annexation of the whole and also for the annexation of a part or parts of a municipality to another municipality,…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-3) Sec. 7-1-3. After the filing of the petition but not less than 5 days prior to the date fixed for the hearing, any interested person may file with the circuit clerk his objections (1) that the territory described in the petition or ordi…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-30) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-30) Sec. 7-1-30. Whenever a part of a municipality has been annexed to an adjoining township, which is wholly within the limits of another municipality, under the Township Code, the annexed territory may be annexed to the municipality wit…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-31) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-31) Sec. 7-1-31. After a part of a municipality is disconnected and annexed to another municipality, the indebtedness and liabilities of the municipality from which the part is disconnected shall be assumed and paid by the enlarged annexi…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-32) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-32) Sec. 7-1-32. If the specified authorities agree as to the amount to be paid by the enlarged annexing municipality, each of the authorities concerned shall pass an ordinance or a resolution reciting the amount to be paid. A certified c…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-33) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-33) Sec. 7-1-33. Upon annexation, the title and possession of all municipal and school property located in the annexed part vests in the annexing municipality. There shall be an adjustment of the municipal and school properties owned by t…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-34) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-34) Sec. 7-1-34. If a part of a municipality is annexed to another municipality, and if before the annexation the corporate authorities of the divided municipality have made the annual tax levy for the fiscal year in which the annexation …

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-35) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-35) Sec. 7-1-35. If a part of a municipality is annexed to another municipality, and if proceedings were instituted before annexation to make improvements in or on streets within the annexed territory by special assessment or special taxa…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-36) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-36) Sec. 7-1-36. After a part of a municipality is annexed to another municipality, proceedings theretofore instituted to take land for the purpose of opening any street, alley, or other public way, within the annexed territory may procee…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-37) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-37) Sec. 7-1-37. After a part of a municipality is annexed to another municipality, both the annexed territory and the divided municipality shall have a right to service from any waterworks, gas, or electric light system, owned, prior to …

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-38) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-38) Sec. 7-1-38. If a part of a municipality is annexed to another municipality, and if the corporate authorities of the divided municipality and of the annexing municipality cannot agree by ordinance as to their respective rights and dut…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-39) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-39) Sec. 7-1-39. After a part of a municipality is annexed to another municipality, any mayor, president, alderperson, trustee, clerk, treasurer, or attorney for the disconnecting municipality, who resides in the detached territory, shall…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-4) Sec. 7-1-4. The cause shall be heard without further pleadings. At the hearing the objector may be heard in person or by counsel. Prior to hearing evidence on the validity of the annexation petition or ordinance, the court shall hear an…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-40) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-40) Sec. 7-1-40. After any territory is annexed to or disconnected from any municipality, the chief executive officer of the municipality or of the county board, as the case may be, whenever not otherwise provided in this Code, shall with…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-41) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-41) Sec. 7-1-41. After either the whole or a part of a municipality is annexed to another municipality, and, despite the construction of sewers in the annexed territory by special assessment, before annexation, the annexing municipality m…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-42) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-42) Sec. 7-1-42. Redistricting after annexation. (a) If the increase in population resulting from the annexation of any territory to a city under the alderperson form of government is sufficient to entitle that city to an increase in the …

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-44) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-44) Sec. 7-1-44. All valid ordinances or resolutions of, and all valid decisions determined through a referendum of the voters in, the whole or a part of any municipality which is annexed in whole or part to another municipality, regulati…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-45) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-45) Sec. 7-1-45. If the whole or a part of a municipality is annexed to another municipality, all municipal officers, exercising power or authority over the annexed territory before annexation, whether or not the terms for which they have…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-46) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-46) Sec. 7-1-46. Neither the People of the State of Illinois nor any person, firm or corporation, public or private, nor any association of persons shall commence an action contesting either directly or indirectly the annexation of any te…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-47) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-47) Sec. 7-1-47. Automatic zoning classification. The corporate authorities of any municipality may provide by ordinance that when territory is annexed to such municipality, the territory automatically is classified to the highest restric…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-48) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-48) Sec. 7-1-48. For all annexations under this Article 7: (a) Except as may be otherwise expressly restricted, territory comprising more than one parcel of record, or more than one unsubdivided parcel, or more than one portion of a parce…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-49) Sec. 7-1-49. Automatic annexation. As provided in Section 8 of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act, 60 days before the sale of any surplus real estate that is located in unincorporated territory and that is contiguous to only one municipality, the s…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-5) Sec. 7-1-5. After the clerk receives the certified copy of the order of the court, the corporate authorities of the annexing municipality shall proceed to consider the question of the annexation of the described territory. A majority vo…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-5.1) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-5.1) Sec. 7-1-5.1. (a) This Section shall apply when the following conditions are met with respect to any tract within the territory sought to be annexed: (1) the tract is commercial or industrial property; (2) the tract is owned by a si…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-5.2) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-5.2) Sec. 7-1-5.2. Annexation of contiguous territory contributing to groundwater contamination. (a) The corporate authorities of a municipality adjoining unincorporated territory in which the majority of residential, business, commercia…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-5.3) Sec. 7-1-5.3. Planned unit development; rail-trail. When a developer petitions a municipality to annex property for a planned unit development of residential, commercial, or industrial sub-divisions that is located adjacent to a former railroad right-of-way th…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-6) Sec. 7-1-6. (a) If the vote is in favor of annexing the described territory, the corporate authorities on their own motion may order a referendum on the question. If the corporate authorities reject annexation, or do not order a referen…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-7) Sec. 7-1-7. (a) If the court finds that an annexation ordinance is valid, the court shall enter an order directing the submission of the question of annexation of the unincorporated territory to the electors of that territory at an elec…

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-8) Sec. 7-1-8. Any territory which is not within the corporate limits of any municipality but which is contiguous to a municipality at the time of annexation and which territory has no electors residing therein, or any such territory with …

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-9) Sec. 7-1-9. Whenever any contiguous, uninhabited, unincorporated territory is owned by any municipality, that territory may be annexed by that municipality by the passage of an ordinance to that effect, describing the territory to be an…

(65 ILCS 5/7-2-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-1) Sec. 7-2-1. Any 2 or more incorporated contiguous municipalities wholly or substantially situated in a single county may be united into one incorporated city by a compliance with Sections 7-1-16 and 7-1-17, with the following exceptions…

(65 ILCS 5/7-2-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-10) Sec. 7-2-10. If any municipality, before it becomes a borough, has enacted its annual appropriation ordinance, but has not enacted an ordinance levying a tax that is sufficient to produce revenue equal to its appropriations for the cu…

(65 ILCS 5/7-2-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-11) Sec. 7-2-11. The formation of a union as provided in Section 7-2-1 shall not adversely affect the collection of any revenue or the enforcement of any tax or special assessment, levied or assessed in any municipality that has become a …

(65 ILCS 5/7-2-11.1) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-11.1) Sec. 7-2-11.1. Where a tax rate or rates have been authorized by referendum in any municipality that has become a borough of a united city as provided in Section 7-2-1, proceedings to levy, collect and enforce such taxes in all bo…

(65 ILCS 5/7-2-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-12) Sec. 7-2-12. All suits pending in any court on behalf of or against any municipality, when it becomes a borough of a united city, may be prosecuted or defended in the name of the municipality. Judgments in favor of the municipality ma…

(65 ILCS 5/7-2-13) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-13) Sec. 7-2-13. If any municipality, before it becomes the borough of a united city, has instituted proceedings to improve any street or alley or to construct any authorized public works by special assessment or special taxation, the pro…

(65 ILCS 5/7-2-15) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-15) Sec. 7-2-15. All policemen and firemen lawfully in the employment of any municipality that becomes a borough of a united city shall become members of the police or fire department, respectively, of the united city. (Source: Laws 1961,…

(65 ILCS 5/7-2-16) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-16) Sec. 7-2-16. All valid ordinances or resolutions of and all valid decisions determined through a referendum of the voters in any municipality which becomes a borough of a united city, regulating or prohibiting the sale of alcoholic li…

(65 ILCS 5/7-2-17) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-17) Sec. 7-2-17. If annexation of any territory is made to a united city, it shall become a part of the borough to which it is contiguous. If it is contiguous to 2 or more boroughs, it shall be apportioned between them by ordinance of the…

(65 ILCS 5/7-2-18) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-18) Sec. 7-2-18. A municipality contiguous to a united city may be annexed to the united city as a borough thereof, by a compliance with Sections 7-1-1 through 7-1-45. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/7-2-19) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-19) Sec. 7-2-19. Whenever a united city is formed by a compliance with Section 7-2-1 and the decision is in favor of an alderperson form of municipal government, the united city shall be governed, after the first election held in complian…

(65 ILCS 5/7-2-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-2) Sec. 7-2-2. A certified copy of the canvass of the votes of the election on the proposition stated in Section 7-2-1, made by the proper officers, shall be transmitted to the clerk of each municipality involved in the election, and to th…

(65 ILCS 5/7-2-20) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-20) Sec. 7-2-20. If the decision at the election under Section 7-2-1 is in favor of the commission form of municipal government, the united city shall be governed, after the first election held in compliance with Section 7-2-7, by a counc…