HB0775 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB0775

Introduced 2/9/2009, by Rep. Robert Rita

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

70 ILCS 915/1

from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 5001

Amends the Illinois Medical District Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning creation of the medical district.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Medical District Act is amended by changing Section 1 as follows:

(70 ILCS 915/1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 5001)

Sec. 1. Creation of District. There is created in the the City of Chicago a medical center district, hereinafter called the District, whose boundaries are Ashland Boulevard on the East, a line co-incidental with Congress Street extending from Ashland Boulevard in a westerly direction to Oakley Boulevard on the north, Oakley Boulevard on the west, and a line coincidental with the north line of the property at or near 14th and 15th Streets owned or used by the Chicago Northwestern Transportation Company, its successor and assigns for railroad purposes on the south. The District is created to attract and retain academic centers of excellence, viable health care facilities, medical research facilities, emerging high technology enterprises, and other facilities and uses as permitted by this Act.

(Source: P.A. 89-356, eff. 8-17-95.)