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65 ILCS 5/7-1-8

(65 ILCS 5/7-1-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-8)

Sec. 7-1-8.

Any territory which is not within the corporate limits of any
municipality but which is contiguous to a municipality at the time of
annexation and which territory
has no electors residing therein, or any such territory with electors
residing therein, may be annexed to the municipality in the following
manner: a written petition signed by the owners of record of all land
within such territory and by at least 51% of the electors residing therein
shall be filed with the municipal clerk. The petition shall request
annexation and shall state that no electors reside therein or that at least
51% of such electors residing therein join in the petition, whichever shall
be the case, and shall be under oath. The corporate authorities of the
municipality to which annexation is sought shall then consider the question
of the annexation of the described territory. A majority vote of the
corporate authorities then holding office is required to annex. The vote
shall be by "yeas" and "nays" entered on the legislative records. A copy of
the ordinance annexing the territory together with an accurate map of the
annexed territory shall be recorded with the recorder and filed
with the County Clerk within the county wherever the annexed territory is
located.

(Source: P.A. 83-358.)