(70 ILCS 1280/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 325a)
Sec. 1.
The park commissioners for any park district the boundaries
and limits of which extend over the whole of one or more towns within
the limits of a city having a population of more than three hundred
thousand inhabitants according to the last preceding Federal or State
census shall have authority, and such power and authority is hereby
delegated to them, to set apart and grant a suitable site within any
park under their jurisdiction and control, for the construction and
accommodation of a historical museum and library to be open to the
general public, whenever any historical society or other civic body or
corporation organized for the promotion of historical education, which
in the judgment of such park commissioners is financially responsible
and able to build and maintain such an institution, submits to such park
commissioners plans and pledges showing its ability and willingness to
erect and maintain a building suitable and appropriate for such purpose;
and the said park commissioners may, before or at the time of the
allocation of the land for such purpose, impose such conditions in
connection with the privileges granted as in its discretion will insure
the completion of the proposed building within a reasonable time and its
maintenance at a standard commensurate with and appropriate to the
character of the park in which it is to be located.
(Source: Laws Sp.S1928, p. 64.)
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