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70 ILCS 1505/1 (2026)

The Chicago Park District shall be created and established immediately upon the adoption of this act as hereinafter provided

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(70 ILCS 1505/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.1)
    Sec. 1. The Chicago Park District shall be created and established immediately upon the adoption of this act as hereinafter provided. Such park district shall be in succession to all park districts now existing within the territory included within the proposed Chicago Park District and shall exercise control over and supervise the operation of all parks, boulevards, ways and other public property now under the jurisdiction of any of said park districts. The Chicago Park District shall comprise all of the City of Chicago and such territory located without the corporate limits of the City of Chicago as may be included in any existing park district lying partly within and partly without the limits of such city.
(Source: Laws 1933, p. 725.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2010–2024 · leading case: Millennium Park Jt. Venture, LLC v. Houlihan, 948 N.E.2d 1 (Ill. 2010).
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Millennium Park Jt. Venture, LLC v. Houlihan, 948 N.E.2d 1 (Ill. 2010). · cites it 4× “See 70 ILCS 1505/1 (West 2008). Against this statutory backdrop, the Park District operated under the belief that it lacked the authority to lease property to concession vendors.”
Levine v. City of Chicago, 2024 IL App (1st) 231245 (Ill. App. Ct. 2024). · cites it 2× “(West 2012)) or the Chicago Park District Act (70 ILCS 1505/1 et seq. (West 2012)), the only two Illinois acts purporting to create park districts.”
Millennium Park Jt. Venture, LLC v. Houlihan (Ill. 2010). · cites it 2× “See 70 ILCS 1505/1 (West 2008). Against this statutory backdrop, the Park District operated under the belief that it lacked the authority to lease property to concession vendors.”
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