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10 ILCS 5/6-17

(10 ILCS 5/6-17) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-17)

Sec. 6-17.

Whenever 1,000 of the legal voters in a city of 250,000
population or less where this Article 6 and Articles 14 and 18 of this
Act or the Act of which they are a continuation have been adopted shall
petition the circuit court in the county in which such city is located to
submit to a vote of the electors of such city the proposition as to whether
such city and the electors thereof shall reject the Articles,
the court shall enter an order of record approving such petition and
thereupon the court
shall submit such proposition to the legal voters of such city at the next
succeeding general, state, county or municipal election to be held in such
county in not less than 30 days after the entry of such order. If 1,000
shall exceed one-eighth of the legal voters of any such city then such petition
need not be signed or made by more than one-eighth of
the legal voters of such city. Notice of election shall be given by the
court at least 20 days prior to such election by
publication in one or more newspapers of general circulation published
within such city.

(Source: P.A. 83-1362.)