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() 65 ILCS 5/Art. 7 Div. 2
(65 ILCS 5/Art. 7 Div. 2 heading)
DIVISION 2.
UNION OF CONTIGUOUS
MUNICIPALITIES
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-1
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-1)
Sec. 7-2-1.
Any 2 or more incorporated contiguous municipalities
wholly or substantially situated in a single county may be united into
one incorporated city by a compliance with Sections 7-1-16 and 7-1-17, with
the following exceptions:
(1) The petition (a) shall be signed by electors of each of the
municipalities seeking a union, (b) shall state the name by which the
united municipality is to be known, and (c) shall state the form of
municipal government under which the united municipality is to be
governed.
(2) The question shall be in substantially the following form:
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Shall the city, village, or incorporated town (as the case may be) of............ and the city, village, or incorporated town (as the case YES may be) of..........., (and in this manner as far as necessary, filling blanks with the names of the municipalities to be united), be united - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
into a single municipality under the name of.......... with the........... form of municipal government (filling the blank with the word NO "Alderperson" or "Commission" or the words "Managerial With Alderpersons Chosen From Wards Or Districts" as the case may be)? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
No other proposition shall appear thereon.
If the majority of the votes cast in each municipality specified in
the petition is in favor of the proposition, the municipalities are
united.
(Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-2
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-2)
Sec. 7-2-2.
A certified copy of the canvass of the votes of the election on
the proposition stated in Section 7-2-1, made by the proper officers, shall
be transmitted to the clerk of each municipality involved in the election,
and to the county clerk of the county in which the election was held. Each
clerk shall transcribe the certified copy upon his official records. The
mayor or the president of the board of trustees of each municipality, if
the vote is in favor of the union, shall immediately issue a proclamation
declaring the existence of the union. The united municipalities shall be
governed by Sections 7-2-3 through 7-2-27.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-3
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-3)
Sec. 7-2-3.
If municipalities are united by compliance with Section 7-2-1,
the union shall not be affected by a failure of officers to perform the
duties set forth in Section 7-2-2.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-4
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-4)
Sec. 7-2-4.
All courts shall take judicial notice of a union of
municipalities effected by a compliance with Section 7-2-1.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-5
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-5)
Sec. 7-2-5.
Each municipality that becomes a part of a united city upon
compliance with Section 7-2-1 shall thereafter be known as the Borough of
.... (original name of municipality). A change of name of any borough may
be effected, however, by a compliance with Sections 2-4-1 through 2-4-8.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-6
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-6)
Sec. 7-2-6.
Municipalities which have united under Section 7-2-1
shall be deemed to have adopted the City Election Law, as heretofore and
hereafter amended.
Within 10 days after compliance with Section 7-2-1, the Chief Judge of
the Circuit Court or any Judge of that Circuit designated by the Chief Judge
within which the boroughs are situated shall create a
board of election commissioners as provided in the City Election Law.
This board shall perform all duties necessary for holding the first and
subsequent elections in the boroughs and in the united city.
(Source: P.A. 80-571.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-7
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-7)
Sec. 7-2-7.
The day of the first election of officers of the united city
shall be the next regular election date at which municipal officers are
scheduled to be elected as provided in the general election law, occurring not
less than 90 days after the proclamation of the union or, if a municipal
primary is required, not less than 150 days thereafter. The regular general
municipal election shall occur thereafter at the time provided in the general
election law.
(Source: P.A. 81-1490 .)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-8
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-8)
Sec. 7-2-8.
The terms of all popularly elected officers in the boroughs
shall expire 30 days after the first election of officers as provided in
Sections 7-2-6 and 7-2-7. Until the expiration of their terms of office as
provided herein, all elected officers in the boroughs shall continue to
exercise all duties imposed by law, and shall take whatever steps are
necessary and consistent with the provisions of this Division to effectuate
the union of the municipalities. The terms of all popularly elected
officers of the united city at the first election shall begin at the end of
30 days after the first election. The terms of the popularly elected
officers of the united city shall end 30 days after the regular election at
which their successors are chosen but if the successor to any such officer
fails to qualify prior to the expiration of the 30-day period, the officer
whose term thus expires shall continue to hold office and perform the
duties of his office until such time as a successor qualifies for office.
All appointed officers of each borough shall retain their offices and
perform their duties in the borough for which they were appointed, until
superseded by successors appointed for the united city. However, these
appointed officers who are not superseded shall obey the orders of the
officers of the united city.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 1267.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-9
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-9)
Sec. 7-2-9.
Each borough shall retain and pay any debt or liability which
exists immediately prior to the formation of the united city. The title to
and revenue from all property of each borough is transferred to the united
city, except so much thereof as may be necessary to pay any debt or
liability which existed immediately prior to the formation of the united
city. With respect to the property transferred, the united city may
consolidate, interconnect and manage any municipally owned facility,
utility, water, sewerage or sewerage disposal system, provided that such
consolidation, interconnection or management does not adversely affect the
rights of any existing bond holders. If the bonds of any municipality,
before it becomes a borough, have been registered with the State Auditor of
Public Accounts, as required by law, the county clerk of the county in
which the borough is located shall certify forthwith the fact of the
formation of the union to the Auditor. The Auditor shall continue to
certify any existing tax rate, and the county clerk shall continue to
extend such existing tax rate upon the taxable property of the particular
borough alone until the payment of the principal or interest of the bonds
of the borough is complete. Nothing in this section shall be construed to
prevent the united city from incurring indebtedness for the city as a whole
after its formation.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 1267.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-10
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-10)
Sec. 7-2-10.
If any municipality, before it becomes a borough, has enacted
its annual appropriation ordinance, but has not enacted an ordinance
levying a tax that is sufficient to produce revenue equal to its
appropriations for the current fiscal year, then the corporate authorities
of the united city may include the estimated deficit in the amount for
which the annual tax levy of the united city will make provision.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-11
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-11)
Sec. 7-2-11.
The formation of a union as provided in Section 7-2-1 shall
not adversely affect the collection of any revenue or the enforcement of
any tax or special assessment, levied or assessed in any municipality that
has become a borough of a united city. Proceedings to collect revenues and
enforce such taxes or special assessments may be instituted and carried on
in the name of the municipality. All such revenues, taxes and special
assessments that are collected, shall be paid over to the treasurer of the
united city, but they shall be used for the purpose for which they were
levied or assessed.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 1267.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-11.1
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-11.1) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-11.1)
Sec. 7-2-11.1.
Where a tax rate or rates have been authorized by referendum
in any municipality that has become a borough of a united city as provided
in Section 7-2-1, proceedings to levy, collect and enforce such taxes in
all boroughs of the united city may be instituted and carried on in the
name of the united city. All such taxes that are collected shall be paid
over to the treasurer of the united city, but they shall be used for the
purpose for which they were levied in all of the boroughs of the united
city.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2684.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-12
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-12)
Sec. 7-2-12.
All suits pending in any court on behalf of or against any
municipality, when it becomes a borough of a united city, may be prosecuted
or defended in the name of the municipality. Judgments in favor of the
municipality may be collected or enforced in the name of the municipality
but the proceeds shall be paid over to the treasurer of the united city.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-13
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-13) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-13)
Sec. 7-2-13.
If any municipality, before it becomes the borough of a united
city, has instituted proceedings to improve any street or alley or to
construct any authorized public works by special assessment or special
taxation, the proceedings may be carried to finality in the name of the
municipality. Likewise, any proceeding by such a municipality to take land
in order to open a street or alley or to construct authorized public works
may be carried to finality in the name of the municipality. Proceedings to
collect and enforce any resulting special assessments or taxes and the
disposition of the proceeds thereof shall be governed by Section 7-2-11.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-15
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-15) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-15)
Sec. 7-2-15.
All policemen and firemen lawfully in the employment of any
municipality that becomes a borough of a united city shall become members
of the police or fire department, respectively, of the united city.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-16
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-16) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-16)
Sec. 7-2-16.
All valid ordinances or resolutions of and all valid decisions
determined through a referendum of the voters in any municipality which
becomes a borough of a united city, regulating or prohibiting the sale of
alcoholic liquor shall remain valid, notwithstanding the formation of the
union, until validly changed by a compliance with "An Act relating to
alcoholic liquors," approved January 31, 1934, as heretofore and hereafter
amended. The local liquor control commissioner of any municipality, which
becomes a borough of a united city, shall continue as such until superseded
by the mayor of the united city.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-17
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-17) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-17)
Sec. 7-2-17.
If annexation of any territory is made to a united city, it
shall become a part of the borough to which it is contiguous. If it is
contiguous to 2 or more boroughs, it shall be apportioned between them by
ordinance of the united city.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-18
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-18) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-18)
Sec. 7-2-18.
A municipality contiguous to a united city may be annexed to
the united city as a borough thereof, by a compliance with Sections 7-1-1
through 7-1-45.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-19
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-19) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-19)
Sec. 7-2-19.
Whenever a united city is formed by a compliance with Section
7-2-1 and the decision is in favor of an alderperson form of municipal
government, the united city shall be governed, after the first election
held in compliance with Section 7-2-7, by a council composed of a mayor and
a board of alderpersons selected by the electors of the united city as provided
by the provisions of this Code relating to the election of city officers,
except that all elections in a united city are controlled by the City
Election Law as provided in Section 7-2-6.
(Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-20
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-20) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-20)
Sec. 7-2-20.
If the decision at the election under Section 7-2-1 is in
favor of the commission form of municipal government, the united city shall
be governed, after the first election held in compliance with Section
7-2-7, by a council, consisting of a mayor and a board of 4 commissioners.
One commissioner shall be elected by the electors in each borough. If there
are less than 4 boroughs, the remainder of the commissioners shall be
elected by the electors of the united city. The nomination petitions of the
candidates for the commissioners who are to be elected by the electors in a
particular borough shall be signed only by electors of that particular
borough. In other respects the nomination and election of officers shall be
conducted in compliance with Sections 4-3-1 through 4-3-18. Likewise the
tenure of office shall be the same as that provided in Section 4-3-4.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-21
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-21) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-21)
Sec. 7-2-21.
In addition to the requirements of the general election law, a distinct
ballot shall be printed for each borough for the primary election. At the
top of the ballot shall be the following: CANDIDATES FOR NOMINATION FOR
MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS AT LARGE OF THE UNITED CITY OF..... Under the sub-title
of FOR MAYOR shall be placed the following: (VOTE FOR ONE). If any commissioner
at large is to be nominated there shall be placed below the names of the
candidates for mayor another sub-title in the singular or plural form, depending
on the facts, the following: FOR COMMISSIONER AT LARGE. Following this sub-title
there shall be an instruction in this form, to be altered, however, to conform
to the facts. (VOTE FOR ONE). Following the names of the candidates for
commissioner at large, if any, there shall be another sub-title in the following
form: FOR COMMISSIONER FROM THE BOROUGH OF..... Following this sub-title
there shall be the following direction: (VOTE FOR ONE). In other respects
the form of the ballot shall be controlled by Section 4-3-10.
(Source: P.A. 81-1490.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-22
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-22) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-22)
Sec. 7-2-22.
To determine the number of nominees who shall be placed on the
ballot under each sub-title at the general city election, the number of
officers who will be chosen under each sub-title shall be multiplied by 2.
Only those candidates at the primary election shall be nominees under each
sub-title at the general city election who have received the 2 highest
number of votes, where but one officer is to be elected, the 4 highest
where but 2 officers are to be elected, and in this manner as far as
necessary.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-23
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-23) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-23)
Sec. 7-2-23.
If a candidate nominated at a primary election for a
particular office dies or withdraws before the general city election, the
vacancy on the ballot shall be filled with the name of the candidate for
the same office who ranked next highest in the number of votes received at
the primary to those who were determined to be the nominees for the office
sought by the dead or withdrawing candidate.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-24
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-24) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-24)
Sec. 7-2-24. The ballots for the election of officers at the general city
election in a united city shall be prepared in accordance with the general
election law, and in accordance with Section 4-3-16,
with the following changes: (1) Following the names of the candidates for
mayor there shall be printed a sub-title: FOR COMMISSIONER (or COMMISSIONERS)
AT LARGE. Following this sub-title shall be an instruction in this form:
(Vote for one) or (Vote for not more than 2), as the case may be. The names
of the candidates for commissioner at large shall follow this instruction.
(2) Following the names of the candidates at large shall be printed another
sub-title: FOR COMMISSIONER FROM THE BOROUGH OF..... Following this sub-title
shall be an instruction in this form: (Vote for one) and following this
instruction shall be printed the names of the 2 nominees. Sections 7-2-20
through 7-2-24 are applicable only to united cities under a commission form
of government.
(Source: P.A. 95-862, eff. 8-19-08.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-25
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-25) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-25)
Sec. 7-2-25.
Every valid ordinance of a municipality that becomes a borough
of a united city shall remain valid within that borough until repealed by
an ordinance of the united city either expressly or impliedly by
legislation on the same subject.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-26
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-26) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-26)
Sec. 7-2-26.
The formation of a united city under Section 7-2-1 shall not
effect a union of the schools in the boroughs of the united city. The
united city before the schools themselves are united shall not be
responsible for any school debt or any school obligation in a municipality
that becomes a borough or in a borough after the formation of the united
city. Each school in a borough, until the schools themselves are united,
shall be governed, as far as possible, as if the united city had not been
formed. Statutes providing that school officials may act only with the
concurrence of the city council shall not apply to schools in a united city
until the schools are united in compliance with statutes governing schools.
However, after the formation of a united city, and before the school
themselves are united, the name of each school district therein shall be
amended by substituting the word "Borough" in place of the word "City,"
"Village," or "Town".
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-27
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-27) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-27)
Sec. 7-2-27.
At any general municipal election,
the question of the
dissolution of the united city may be submitted to the electors by a
compliance, as near as may be, with Sections 7-6-1 through 7-6-6.
However, the petition in such cases shall request that the dissolution
of the united city be submitted to the electors of the united city and
the question shall be in the following form:
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SHALL THE UNITED YES CITY OF....... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
BE DISSOLVED? NO - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
(Source: P.A. 81-1489 .)
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65 ILCS 5/7-2-28
(65 ILCS 5/7-2-28) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-2-28)
Sec. 7-2-28.
Whenever a united city is formed by a compliance with Section
7-2-1 of municipal government with alderpersons chosen from wards or districts,
the united city shall be and the decision is in favor of a managerial form
governed, after the first election held in compliance with Section 7-2-7,
by a council composed of a mayor and a board of alderpersons selected by the
electors of the united city as provided by the provisions of this Code
relating to the election of city officers, except all elections in a united
city are controlled by the City Election Law as provided in Section 7-2-6,
and by a municipal manager appointed by the council as provided in Article
5.
(Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)
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