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70 ILCS 1707/5 (2026)

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(70 ILCS 1707/5)
    Sec. 5. Purpose. The General Assembly declares and determines that a streamlined, consolidated regional planning agency is necessary in order to plan for the most effective public and private investments in the northeastern Illinois region and to better integrate plans for land use and transportation. The purpose of this Act is to define and describe the powers and responsibilities of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, a unit of government whose purpose it is to effectively address the development and transportation challenges in the northeastern Illinois region.
(Source: P.A. 94-510, eff. 8-9-05; 95-677, eff. 10-11-07.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases, 2018–2019 · leading case: Openlands v. Dep't of Transp., 2018 IL App (1st) 170340 (Ill. App. Ct. 2019).
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Openlands v. Dep't of Transp., 2018 IL App (1st) 170340 (Ill. App. Ct. 2019). “70 ILCS 1707/5, 10 (West 2014). A unit of local government includes counties, municipalities, townships, special districts, and units designated by law as having limited governmental powers.”
Openlands v. Illinois Dep't of Transp., 2018 IL App (1st) 170340 (Ill. App. Ct. 2018). “70 ILCS 1707/5, 10 (West 2014). A unit of local government includes counties, municipalities, townships, special districts, and units designated by law as having limited governmental powers.”
Openlands v. Illinois Dep't of Transp., 2018 IL App (1st) 170340 (Ill. App. Ct. 2018). “70 ILCS 1707/5, 10 (West 2014). A unit of local government includes counties, municipalities, townships, special districts, and units designated by law as having limited governmental powers.”
Openlands v. Illinois Dep't of Transp., 2018 IL App (1st) 170340 (Ill. App. Ct. 2018). “¶ 22 Turning to the state provisions at issue, the purpose of the Regional Planning Act is to describe the powers and responsibilities of the Chicago Metro Planning Agency, "a unit of government" created to address transportation challenges in northeastern Illinois (including…”
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