(605 ILCS 5/8-102) (from Ch. 121, par. 8-102)
Sec. 8-102.
When an existing highway has been designated and established as
a freeway as provided in this Article, no owner of or person having
interest in land abutting such freeway shall lay out, provide or construct
any new means or enlarge or extend any existing means of ingress to or
egress from said abutting land from or to the freeway except upon written
consent of the Department, any county board or the corporate authorities of
any municipality, as the case may be, and the Department, county board, or
the corporate authorities of any municipality, as the case may be, shall
have full authority to deny their respective consent or to specify and
enforce the terms and conditions under which new means of ingress or egress
may be provided or existing means enlarged or extended. The Department, the
county board, or the corporate authorities of any municipality, as the case
may be, shall also have authority to extinguish by purchase or condemnation
any existing rights or easements of access, crossing, light, air or view
to, from or over the freeway vested in abutting land, in the same manner as
the Department, county board, or corporate authorities of any municipality
now is or hereafter may be authorized by law to acquire private property
and property rights in connection with highways under their respective
jurisdiction and control.
(Source: Laws 1959, p. 196.)
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