(70 ILCS 1225/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 54)
Sec. 1.
In all cases where any board of park
commissioners has selected and taken any street or part thereof under the
provisions of an act of the General Assembly entitled, "An Act to enable
park commissioners or corporate authorities to take, regulate, control and
improve public streets leading to public parks, to pay for the improvement
thereof and in that behalf to make and collect a special assessment or
special tax on contiguous property," and any part or portion of said street
so selected and taken has not been legally laid out or dedicated to the
uniform width of one hundred feet, the said board of park commissioners
shall have the power to widen said street or the part of said street so
selected and taken to the uniform width of one hundred feet: Provided, that
some portion of each mile of said street, or the part thereof so selected
and taken, shall be of the width of one hundred feet at the time of such
selection and taking.
(Source: Laws 1887, p. 248.)
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