Full Text of HB0325 94th General Assembly
HB0325sam001 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Sen. James A. DeLeo
Filed: 5/4/2005
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 325
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 325 immediately | 3 |
| after the title, by inserting the following:
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| "WHEREAS, The State of Illinois owns certain real property | 5 |
| in the City of Chicago in the Dunning Community Area in Cook | 6 |
| County, located in Township 40 North, Range 13 East, Section | 7 |
| 18, that is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Human | 8 |
| Services for the operation of the Chicago Read Mental Health | 9 |
| Center; and | 10 |
| WHEREAS, Approximately 30 acres of the Chicago Read Mental | 11 |
| Health Center property contain 2 wetlands, an emergent wetland, | 12 |
| and other open space that benefit the protection of the Des | 13 |
| Plaines watershed; and | 14 |
| Whereas, State-owned wetlands are governed by and must be | 15 |
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according to the Interagency Wetlands Policy Act of | 16 |
| 1989 and provisions of Part 1090 of Title 17 of the Illinois | 17 |
| Administrative Code; and | 18 |
| Whereas, The mission of the Illinois Department of Human | 19 |
| Services is to improve the health, well-being, and quality of | 20 |
| life of Illinois citizens; and | 21 |
| Whereas, Parks, open spaces, and forests are important | 22 |
| components for the health and well-being of urban residents, |
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| contributing to the prevention and amelioration of illness not | 2 |
| only by facilitating improvements in physical fitness through | 3 |
| exercise, but also by facilitating positive emotional, | 4 |
| intellectual, and social experiences; and | 5 |
| Whereas, The Dunning Community Area, in which the property | 6 |
| is located, has been identified as underserved by open space | 7 |
| and parks in the Land Policies Plans completed by the City and | 8 |
| the Chicago Park District, that note that 2 large segments of | 9 |
| the Dunning Community have no open space or parkland | 10 |
| whatsoever; and | 11 |
| Whereas, The Dunning property was originally donated to | 12 |
| Cook County in 1868 by the Dunning family for health and social | 13 |
| purposes and was operated by the County as a "poor farm" and a | 14 |
| facility for the mentally ill until 1912; and | 15 |
| Whereas, In 1912 Cook County conveyed the 235-acre Dunning | 16 |
| property to the State of Illinois to be used for health and | 17 |
| social purposes as stated in the original land covenant; | 18 |
| therefore"; and | 19 |
| by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the | 20 |
| following:
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| "Section 5. The Illinois Department of Human Services is | 22 |
| hereby authorized to grant and convey a permanent conservation | 23 |
| easement to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources on a | 24 |
| parcel containing 30 acres, more
or less, that is located in | 25 |
| Section 18, Township 40 North, Range 13 East of the third | 26 |
| principal meridian, Cook County, Illinois, situated to the West | 27 |
| and South of the Chicago Read Mental Health Center, for the | 28 |
| purpose of preserving and protecting the wetlands and forested | 29 |
| area for the benefit of the patients of the
facility, the |
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| community, and the general public, this 30-acre parcel being | 2 |
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particularly described under Section 10 of this Act.
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| Section 10. A parcel containing 30 acres, more or less, | 4 |
| located in Section 18, Township 40 North, Range 13 East of the | 5 |
| third principal meridian, Cook County, Illinois, situated to | 6 |
| the West and South of the Chicago Read Mental Health Center, a | 7 |
| more accurate description to be made by an Illinois | 8 |
| professional land surveyor, the cost of the survey to be paid | 9 |
| for by Friends of the Parks. | 10 |
| Section 15. The Board of Trustees of The University of | 11 |
| Illinois must convey to Gene Michael Vanderport, of Vermilion | 12 |
| County, Illinois, in exchange for fair market value, based on | 13 |
| the average of 3 certified appraisals, certain real property | 14 |
| located in Vermilion County, Illinois and described as follows: | 15 |
| A tract of land in the Southwest Fractional Quarter of | 16 |
| Section 1, Township 18 North, Range 11 West of the 2nd | 17 |
| Principal Meridian, bounded and described as follows: | 18 |
| Beginning at the Northwest corner of the Southwest | 19 |
| Fractional Quarter of Section 1, Township 18 North, Range | 20 |
| 11 West of the 2nd Principal Meridian; thence down the | 21 |
| Vermilion River following the meanders thereof 58 poles to | 22 |
| a stone; thence in a Northeasterly direction or course to a | 23 |
| point so as to strike the North line of said Southwest | 24 |
| Fractional Quarter of said Section 1, 17 poles West of the | 25 |
| Northeast corner of said Southwest Fractional Quarter of | 26 |
| said Section 1; thence West to the place of beginning, | 27 |
| EXCEPT 4.5 acres in a triangular shape off the Northeast | 28 |
| corner of said described tract, situated in Vermilion | 29 |
| County, Illinois. | 30 |
| Section 20. (a) The State Property Control Act does not | 31 |
| apply to the transfer of the real property described in Section |
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| 15 of this Act. | 2 |
| (b) The provisions of this Act are judicially enforceable. | 3 |
| Section 90. The State Property Control Act is amended by | 4 |
| changing Section 1.02 as follows:
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| (30 ILCS 605/1.02) (from Ch. 127, par. 133b3)
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| Sec. 1.02. "Property" means State owned property and | 7 |
| includes all real
estate, with the exception of rights of way | 8 |
| for State water resource and
highway improvements, traffic | 9 |
| signs and traffic signals, and with the
exception of common | 10 |
| school property; and all tangible personal property with
the | 11 |
| exception of properties specifically exempted by the | 12 |
| administrator,
provided that any property originally | 13 |
| classified as real property which
has been detached from its | 14 |
| structure shall be classified as personal property.
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| "Property" does not include property owned by the Illinois | 16 |
| Medical District
Commission and leased or occupied by others | 17 |
| for purposes permitted under the
Illinois Medical District Act. | 18 |
| "Property" also does not include property owned
and held by the | 19 |
| Illinois Medical District Commission for redevelopment.
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| "Property" does not include property described under | 21 |
| Section 5 of
Public Act 92-371
with respect to depositing the | 22 |
| net proceeds from the sale or exchange of the
property as | 23 |
| provided in Section 10 of that Act.
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| "Property" does not include that property described under | 25 |
| Section 15 of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-371, eff. 8-15-01; 92-651, eff. 7-11-02.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 28 |
| becoming law.".
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