(70 ILCS 1230/4) (from Ch. 105, par. 96)
Sec. 4.
The title to any such extension or connection of such park or
parks, boulevards, driveways and parkways, and to the bed thereof shall be,
and hereby becomes vested in such board of park commissioners for public
purposes, and the same shall thereby become a part of the public park or
parks under the control of such board, and shall thenceforth be maintained
and controlled by such board in the manner provided by law, for the
government and maintenance of other parks, boulevards and driveways under
its control, and in all cases where any boulevard, driveway or parkway is
extended, or constructed, under the provisions of this act, the title to
the submerged lands lying between the shore of such public waters, and the
inner line of the extension of such boulevard, driveway or parkway, shall
be, and thereby becomes vested in such board of park commissioners for
public purposes; and in case any such park, boulevard, driveway or parkway,
extension or connection as provided in this act, shall be made into, over
or upon the bed of Lake Michigan by any such board of park commissioners,
then the right, title and interest of the State of Illinois in and to the
bed of so much of said Lake Michigan shall be vested in such board of park
commissioners as in other cases provided in this act, and for the same
purposes and with the same rights and power.
(Source: Laws 1903, p. 256.)
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