65 ILCS 5/ Illinois Municipal Code.

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65 ILCS 5/11-24-1

(65 ILCS 5/11-24-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-24-1)

Sec. 11-24-1.

The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this
Division 24, shall, unless the context otherwise requires, mean the
following:

(1) "Public hospital" means any hospital established and supported by
any city of this state having a population of less than 100,000
inhabitants.

(2) "Bonds" means bonds, interim certificates or other obligations of a
municipality issued by its governing body pursuant to this Division 24.

(3) "Public works project" means any reconstruction, improvement or
betterment of a public hospital.

(4) "To construct" means to reconstruct, to replace, to extend, to
repair, to better, to equip, to develop, to embellish or to improve a
public hospital.

(5) "Construction" means building, repairing, construction,
reconstruction, replacement, extension, betterment, equipment, development,
embellishment and improvement of a public hospital.

(6) "Federal agency" includes the United States of America, the
President of the United States of America, the Federal Emergency
Administrator of Public Works, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, or
any agency, instrumentality or corporations owned or controlled by the
United States of America, which has heretofore been or may hereafter be
designated, created or authorized by or pursuant to any act or acts of the
Congress of the United States of America, to make loans or grants.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-24-2

(65 ILCS 5/11-24-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-24-2)

Sec. 11-24-2.

Every city of less than 100,000 inhabitants which has
established and is supporting a public hospital may:

(a) construct any public works project within or without the city or
partially within and partially without the city.

(b) operate and maintain any public works project.

(c) contract debts for the construction of any public works project, may
borrow money and may issue its bonds to finance all or part of such
construction. Any such city incurring any indebtedness as aforesaid, shall,
before or at the time of doing so, provide for the collection of a direct
annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due and
also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within 20 years from the
time of contracting the same.

(d) acquire by purchase, gift or grant, and may hold and dispose of any
property, real or personal, tangible or intangible, or any right or
interest in any such property in connection with any public works project.

(e) perform any acts authorized under this Division 24 through or by
means of its own officers, agents and employees or by contracts with
corporations, firms or individuals.

(f) do all acts and things necessary or convenient to carry out the
powers expressly given in this Division 24.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)