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70 ILCS 1845/5

(70 ILCS 1845/5) (from Ch. 19, par. 355)

Sec. 5.

The District has power to acquire and accept by purchase, lease,
gift, grant or otherwise any property and rights useful for its purposes
and to provide for the development of channels, ports, harbors, airports,
airfields, terminals, port facilities and terminal facilities adequate to
serve the needs of commerce within the District. The District may acquire
real or personal property or any rights therein in the manner, as near as
may be,
as is provided for the exercise of the right
of eminent domain under the Eminent Domain Act; except that no rights or property of any kind or character now
or hereafter owned, leased, controlled or operated and used by, or
necessary for the actual operations of, any common carrier engaged in
interstate commerce, or of any other public utility subject to the
jurisdiction of the Illinois Commerce Commission, shall be taken or
appropriated by the District without first obtaining the approval of the
Illinois Commerce Commission.

(Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)