65 ILCS 5/ Illinois Municipal Code.

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65 ILCS 5/11-121-8

(65 ILCS 5/11-121-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-121-8)

Sec. 11-121-8.

In this section, the term "public utility structures and
appliances" includes lines of a street railroad or other railroad, or both,
and the property used to supply or deal in gas, electricity, lighting,
water, heating, refrigerating, power, telephone, telegraph, and other
public utilities, and any conduits, pipes, wires, poles, or other
properties used for the specified purposes or any of them.

Every municipality has the power to require persons owning or operating
public utility structures and appliances in, upon, under, over, across, or
along the streets, alleys, or public places of the municipality in which it
is proposed to construct subways, (1) to remove these public utility
structures and appliances from their locations in the streets, alleys, or
public places, and (2) to relocate them in such places in the subways or
elsewhere in the streets, alleys, or public places of the municipality as
may be designated by the municipality, either temporarily or for the
remainder of the period of the grant, license, or franchise which the
specified persons have to occupy the streets, alleys, and public places for
public utility purposes. If any person owning or operating public utility
structures and appliances fails or refuses so to remove or relocate them,
the municipality may remove or relocate them.

However, the power of the municipality to so remove or relocate public
utility structures and appliances itself, or to require persons owning or
operating public utility structures and appliances to so remove or relocate
them, shall be exercised only upon such terms and conditions as the
municipality and these persons may agree upon, or in default of such an
agreement, upon such fair and reasonable terms and conditions as the
municipality may prescribe. These terms and conditions may include fair and
reasonable provisions as to how much, if any, of the expense of the
removal, or relocation, shall be paid by the owners or operators of public
utility structures and appliances, respectively, and as to what
compensation, if any, shall be paid to the municipality by the owners or
operators of public utility structures and appliances, respectively, for
the use or occupation of such space, if any, as they may use or occupy in
the subways.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-121-9

(65 ILCS 5/11-121-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-121-9)

Sec. 11-121-9.

If, within the period of limitations of actions provided in
such cases, owners of land abutting or fronting upon any street, alley, or
public place in which a subway has been constructed commence actions to
recover any damage by reason of the construction, maintenance, or operation
of subways under this Division 121, the clerk of the court in which the
proceedings are brought shall make up a special trial calendar of all such
cases, and the court thereupon shall designate an early time
for the hearing thereof. Such cases shall have priority in hearing and
determination over all other civil proceedings pending in that court,
except election contests.

(Source: P.A. 83-334.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 122

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 122 heading) DIVISION 122.

STREET RAILWAYS