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745 ILCS 10/3-101 (2026)

As used in this Article unless the context otherwise requires "property of a local public entity" and "public property" mean real or personal property owned or leased by a local public entity, but do not include easements, encroachments and other property that are located on its property but that it does not own, possess or lease

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(745 ILCS 10/3-101) (from Ch. 85, par. 3-101)
    Sec. 3-101. As used in this Article unless the context otherwise requires "property of a local public entity" and "public property" mean real or personal property owned or leased by a local public entity, but do not include easements, encroachments and other property that are located on its property but that it does not own, possess or lease.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 2983.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 8 cases, 2001–2014 · leading case: Grundy v. Lincoln Park Zoo, 2011 IL App (1st) 102686 (Ill. App. Ct. 2011).
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Grundy v. Lincoln Park Zoo, 2011 IL App (1st) 102686 (Ill. App. Ct. 2011). · cites it 2× “The Second District disagreed with Stein’s statement that an item must be affixed to property in order to constitute a “condition” of that property, both because the Act’s definition of “public property” included movable personal property (see 745 ILCS 10/3-101 (West 2008)) and…”
Pattullo-Banks v. The City of Park Ridge, 2014 IL App (1st) 132856 (Ill. App. Ct. 2014). “The City argued that section 3-102(a) of the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act (Tort Immunity Act) (745 ILCS 10/3-101 et seq. (West 2008)) provides that a local public entity has a duty to exercise ordinary care to maintain its property in a…”
Pattullo-Banks v. City of Park Ridge, 2014 IL App (1st) 132856 (Ill. App. Ct. 2014). “The City argued that section 3-102(a) of the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act (Tort Immunity Act) (745 ILCS 10/3-101 et seq. (West 2008)) provides that a local public entity has a duty to exercise ordinary care to maintain its property in a…”
Steinbach v. CSX Transp., Inc., 913 N.E.2d 554 (Ill. App. Ct. 2009). · cites it 3× “) 745 ILCS 10/3-101 (West 2006). We must apply this statutory definition to the trial court's findings for purposes of summary judgment.”
Latimer v. Chicago Park Dist. (Ill. App. Ct. 2001). “On appeal, plaintiff contends that the trial court erred in ruling that defendant was immune from liability under section 3-102 of the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act (Tort Immunity Act) (745 ILCS 10/3-101 et seq . (West 1998)). The complaint…”
Glass v. City of Chicago (Ill. App. Ct. 2001). “1995) (hereinafter IPI Civil 3d), because it imposed a duty only where the City should have anticipated that a person on the premises would not discover or realize the danger or would otherwise fail to protect himself against it, a duty standard different from that in the Local…”
Int'l Memory Prods. of Illinois, Inc. v. Metro. Pier & Exposition Auth. (Ill. App. Ct. 2002). “Under section 3-102 of the Tort Immunity Act, governmental entities have a duty to exercise reasonable and ordinary care in maintaining public property.”
Abrams v. Oak Lawn-Hometown Middle Sch., 2014 IL App (1st) 132987 (Ill. App. Ct. 2014). “’ ” 745 ILCS 10/3-101 (West 1994). The recreational property in Davis was a playground at a public housing project that was owned, operated, and maintained by Chicago’s municipal housing authority.”
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