(805 ILCS 120/1) (from Ch. 32, par. 188a)
Sec. 1.
Name.
Any 2 or more societies, corporations or
associations of the same
or a similar nature, organized under any special or general law of this
State, or of any State of these United States pertaining to corporations
not for pecuniary profit for the purpose of conducting any kind of business
or enterprise for any lawful purpose other than for pecuniary profit
including religious corporations, may merge or consolidate into a single
corporation. The corporation formed by the merger or consolidation may take
either the name of one of such merging or consolidating corporations;
provided, said name is not the same as or similar to that of a corporation
then existing under the laws of this State or of a foreign corporation
licensed to do business in this State, or a new name not the same as or
similar to that of a corporation then existing under the laws of this State
or of a foreign corporation licensed to do business in this State.
A foreign corporation may not use or take an assumed or fictitious name in
the conduct of
its business that intentionally misrepresents the geographic origin or location
of
the corporation within Illinois.
(Source: P.A. 91-906, eff. 1-1-01.)
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