Division

Union of Contiguous Municipalities

65 ILCS 5/7-2-1
65 ILCS 5/7-2-2— 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 the county clerk of the county in which the election was held
65 ILCS 5/7-2-3— If municipalities are united by compliance with Section 7-2-1, the union shall not be affected by a failure of officers to perform the duties set forth in Section 7-2-2
65 ILCS 5/7-2-4— All courts shall take judicial notice of a union of municipalities effected by a compliance with Section 7-2-1
65 ILCS 5/7-2-5— Each municipality that becomes a part of a united city upon compliance with Section 7-2-1 shall thereafter be known as the Borough of
65 ILCS 5/7-2-6— Municipalities which have united under Section 7-2-1 shall be deemed to have adopted the City Election Law, as heretofore and hereafter amended
65 ILCS 5/7-2-7
65 ILCS 5/7-2-8— The terms of all popularly elected officers in the boroughs shall expire 30 days after the first election of officers as provided in Sections 7-2-6 and 7-2-7
65 ILCS 5/7-2-9— Each borough shall retain and pay any debt or liability which exists immediately prior to the formation of the united city
65 ILCS 5/7-2-10
65 ILCS 5/7-2-11— 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 borough of a united city
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-12— 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
65 ILCS 5/7-2-13— 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 proceedings may be carried to finality in the name of the municipality
65 ILCS 5/7-2-15— 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
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-17— If annexation of any territory is made to a united city, it shall become a part of the borough to which it is contiguous
65 ILCS 5/7-2-18— 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
65 ILCS 5/7-2-19
65 ILCS 5/7-2-20— 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 council, consisting of a mayor and a board of 4 commissioners
65 ILCS 5/7-2-21— In addition to the requirements of the general election law, a distinct ballot shall be printed for each borough for the primary election
65 ILCS 5/7-2-22— To determine the number of nominees who shall be placed on the ballot under each sub-title at the general city election, the number of officers who will be chosen under each sub-title shall be multiplied by 2
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-25— Every valid ordinance of a municipality that becomes a borough of a united city shall remain valid within that borough until repealed by an ordinance of the united city either expressly or impliedly by legislation on the same subject
65 ILCS 5/7-2-26— The formation of a united city under Section 7-2-1 shall not effect a union of the schools in the boroughs of the united city
65 ILCS 5/7-2-27— At any general municipal election, the question of the dissolution of the united city may be submitted to the electors by a compliance, as near as may be, with Sections 7-6-1 through 7-6-6
65 ILCS 5/7-2-28