215 ILCS 5/35B-5

The purpose of this Article is to stimulate economic development in the State of Illinois by creating and sustaining employment opportunities and increasing and sustaining taxable revenue, through improving the competitive position of domestic stock companies, maintaining the competitiveness of this State as a state of domicile for domestic stock companies, and enhancing the desirability of this State as a jurisdiction of domicile for newly incorporating and existing foreign stock companies.