65 ILCS 5/11-123-20

Every city and village may cross by roadways or other appropriate means, the ways, drives, boulevards, beaches, wharves, docks, levees, piers, breakwaters, retaining walls, land, or submerged land of any public or municipal corporation, other than a city or village, whenever the crossing is declared by ordinance of the municipality to be necessary or advantageous to the development and use of a utility.