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605 ILCS 10/1 (2026)

It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that in order to promote the public welfare, and to facilitate vehicular traffic by providing convenient, safe, modern and limited access highways designed for the accommodation of the needs of the traveling public through and within the State of Illinois, that it is necessary in the public interest to provide for the construction, operation, regulation and maintenance of a toll highway or a system of toll highways, incorporating therein the benefits of advanced engineering skill, design, experience and safety factors, to eliminate existing traffic hazards, and to prevent automotive injuries and fatalities, and to create The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, as an instrumentality and administrative agency of the State of Illinois, and to confer upon and vest in said Authority all powers necessary or appropriate to enable said Authority to carry out the foregoing stated legislative purpose and determination

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(605 ILCS 10/1) (from Ch. 121, par. 100-1)
    Sec. 1. It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that in order to promote the public welfare, and to facilitate vehicular traffic by providing convenient, safe, modern and limited access highways designed for the accommodation of the needs of the traveling public through and within the State of Illinois, that it is necessary in the public interest to provide for the construction, operation, regulation and maintenance of a toll highway or a system of toll highways, incorporating therein the benefits of advanced engineering skill, design, experience and safety factors, to eliminate existing traffic hazards, and to prevent automotive injuries and fatalities, and to create The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, as an instrumentality and administrative agency of the State of Illinois, and to confer upon and vest in said Authority all powers necessary or appropriate to enable said Authority to carry out the foregoing stated legislative purpose and determination.
(Source: Laws 1967, p. 2748.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 12 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1993–2022 · leading case: The Illinois State Toll High. Auth. v. South Barrington Off. Ctr., 2016 IL App (1st) 150960 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016).
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The Illinois State Toll High. Auth. v. South Barrington Off. Ctr., 2016 IL App (1st) 150960 (Ill. App. Ct. 2016). · cites it 2× “605 ILCS 10/1 et seq. (West 2014). Pursuant to that statutory authority and to various resolutions passed by the Authority’s board of directors (including Resolution No.”
Rommel v. Illinois State Toll High. Auth., 2013 IL App (2d) 120273 (Ill. App. Ct. 2013). “] Does the Illinois Road and Bridges Tollway Highway Act [(Act) (605 ILCS 10/1 -3- et seq. (West 2008))] impose upon [defendant] a statutory duty to its users to correct, maintain, repair or improve its tollway system as is alleged by the Plaintiffs to prevent against crossover…”
Omega Demolition Corp. v. Illinois State Toll High. Auth., 2022 IL App (1st) 210158 (Ill. App. Ct. 2022). “1-21-0158 Highway Act (605 ILCS 10/1 et seq. (West 2018)) is unavailing because the Tollway has failed to demonstrate that such a determination is in fact within its discretionary powers.”
Graham v. Illinois State Toll High. Auth., 695 N.E.2d 360 (Ill. 1998). “605 ILCS 10/1, 8 (West 1996). The Authority consists of 11 directors, two of whom are the Governor and the Secretary of Transportation, ex ofíicio, and the remainder of whom are appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate.”
Rommel v. Illinois State Toll High. Auth., 938 N.E.2d 1163 (Ill. App. Ct. 2010). “” This question calls upon us to interpret the Toll Highway Act (Act) (605 ILCS 10/1 et seq. (West 2008)). A court’s fundamental goal in interpreting a statute is to give effect to the intent of the legislature, and the best indicator of that intent is the statute’s language,…”
People v. Claar, 687 N.E.2d 557 (Ill. App. Ct. 1997). “See 605 ILCS 10/1 et seq. (West 1996). The mayor oversees the functions of the village; the Board of Directors of the Authority manages the toll highway system in Illinois.”
People v. Valdivia, 2011 IL App (2d) 100998 (Ill. App. Ct. 2011). “3d at 1129 (holding that the Toll Highway Act (605 ILCS 10/1 et seq. (West 2008)) was a mechanism to finance construction and maintenance of highways and did not create a duty -4- to prevent crossover collisions because it was not designed to protect human life or property).”
People Ex Rel. Dept. of Labor v. Valdivia, 955 N.E.2d 631 (Ill. App. Ct. 2011). “2d 1163 (holding that the Toll Highway Act (605 ILCS 10/1 et seq. (West 2008))was a mechanism to finance construction and maintenance of highways and did not create a duty to prevent crossover collisions because it was not designed to protect human life or property).”
Lynch v. Illinois State Toll High. Auth., 625 N.E.2d 142 (Ill. App. Ct. 1993). · cites it 2× “100 — 1 (now 605 ILCS 10/1 (West 1992)Xsection 1)), which states that the Authority was created as “an instrumentality and administrative agency of the State of Illinois.”
Rommel v. The Illinois State Toll High. Auth. (Ill. App. Ct. 2010). “" This question calls upon us to interpret the Toll Highway Act (Act) (605 ILCS 10/1 et seq. (West 2008)). A court's fundamental goal in interpreting a statute is to give effect to the intent of the legislature, and the best indicator of that intent is the statute's language,…”
Graham v. Illinois State Toll High. Auth. (Ill. 1998). “605 ILCS 10/1, 8 (West 1996). The Authority consists of 11 directors, two of whom are the Governor and the Secretary of Transportation, ex officio , and the remainder of whom are appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate.”
People v. Claar (Ill. App. Ct. 1997). “See 605 ILCS 10/1 et seq. (West 1996). The mayor oversees the functions of the village; the Board of Directors of the Authority manages the toll highway system in Illinois.”
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