(225 ILCS 725/11) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 5417)
Sec. 11.
Whenever it shall appear that any person is violating or
threatening to violate any provision of this Act, or any rule
or final administrative order made hereunder, the
Department, through the Attorney General, who may call
to his or her assistance
the State's Attorney of the county in which an action is instituted,
shall bring an action in the name of the People of the State of Illinois
against such person
in the circuit court of the county wherein any part of the
land or any activity
which is the subject matter of such action is located, or a final
administrative order was entered, to restrain such person from
continuing such violation or from carrying out the threat of violation. In
such action the Department, in the name of the People of the State of
Illinois, may obtain such injunctions, prohibitory and mandatory, including
temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions,
or other enforcement orders as the facts may warrant.
All remedies and penalties provided for in this Act shall be cumulative
in effect and, accordingly, proceedings under this Section are in addition
to, and not in lieu of, other remedies and penalties provided for in this Act.
(Source: P.A. 86-205; 86-364; 86-1028.)
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