(765 ILCS 1020/28) (from Ch. 50, par. 28)
Sec. 28.
In all cases where such lost goods, money, bank notes or
other choses in action shall not exceed the sum of $100 in value and the
owner thereof is unknown, the finder shall advertise the same at the court
house, and if the owner does not claim such money, goods,
bank notes or other choses in action within 6 months from the time of
such advertisement, the ownership of such property shall vest in the
finder and the court shall enter an order to that effect.
If the value thereof exceeds the sum of $100, the county clerk, within
20 days after receiving the certified copy of the court's order shall
cause a notice thereof
to be published for 3 weeks successively in some public newspaper
printed in this county and if the owner of such goods, money, bank notes,
or other choses in action does not claim the same and pay the
finder's charges and expenses within one year after the advertisement
thereof as aforesaid, the ownership of such property shall vest in the
finder and the court shall enter an order to that effect.
(Source: P.A. 83-1362.)
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