70 ILCS 915/1

There is created in the City of Chicago a medical center district, hereinafter called the District, whose boundaries are Ashland Boulevard on the East, a line co-incidental with Congress Street extending from Ashland Boulevard in a westerly direction to Oakley Boulevard on the north, Oakley Boulevard on the west, and a line coincidental with the north line of the property at or near 14th and 15th Streets owned or used by the Chicago Northwestern Transportation Company, its successor and assigns for railroad purposes on the south. The District is created to attract and retain academic centers of excellence, viable health care facilities, medical research facilities, emerging high technology enterprises, and other facilities and uses as permitted by this Act.