(70 ILCS 915/4) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 5005)
Sec. 4.
The Commission may, in its corporate capacity, construct or cause
or permit to be constructed in such District, hospitals, sanitariums,
clinics, laboratories, or any other institution, building or structure or
other ancillary or related facilities which the Commission may, from time
to time, determine are established and operated for the carrying out of any
aspect of the Commission's purpose as set forth in this Act, or are
established and operated for the study, diagnosis, and treatment of human
ailments and injuries, whether physical or mental, or to promote medical,
surgical, and scientific research and knowledge, or for any uses the
Commission shall determine will support and nurture facilities, and uses
permitted by this Act, or for such nursing, extended care, or other
facilities as the Commission
shall find useful in the study of, research in, or treatment of illnesses
or infirmities peculiar to aged people, after a public hearing to be held
by any Commissioner or other person authorized by the Commission to conduct
the same, which Commissioner or other person shall have the power to
administer oaths and affirmations and take the testimony of witnesses and
receive such documentary evidence as shall be pertinent, the record of
which hearing he shall certify to the Commission, which record shall become
part of the records of the Commission, notice of the time, place, and
purpose of such hearings to be given by a single publication notice in a
secular newspaper of general circulation in the city of Chicago at least
ten days prior to the date of such hearing, or for such institutions as
shall engage in the training, education, or rehabilitation of persons who
by reason of illness or physical infirmity are wholly or partially deprived
of their powers of vision or hearing or of the use of such other part or
parts of their bodies as prevent them from pursuing normal activities of
life, or office buildings for physicians or dealers in medical accessories,
or dormitories, homes or residences for the medical profession, including
interns, nurses, students or other officers or employees of the
institutions within the District, or for the use of relatives of patients
in the hospitals or other institutions within the District, or for the
rehabilitation or establishment of residential structures within
a currently effective historic district properly designated under a federal
statute or a State or local statute that has been certified by the Secretary
of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury as containing criteria
which will substantially achieve the purpose of preserving
and rehabilitating buildings of historic significance to the district, or
in the area of such District located west of South Damen Avenue and north
of West Polk Street, commonly known as the Chicago Technology Park or
such other areas of the District as the Commission shall designate, for
research, development and resultant production, in any of the fields of
medicine, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, physics and genetically engineered
products, for biotechnology, information technology, medical technology, or
environmental technology, or for the research and development of engineering
or for computer
technology related to any of the purposes for which the Commission may
construct structures and improvements within the District. The Commission shall administer and exercise ultimate
authority with respect to the development and operation of the Chicago
Technology Park, and any extensions or expansion thereof.
In addition, the Commission may create a development area within the area of
the District located south of Roosevelt Road, called the District
Development Area in this Act. Within the District Development Area the
Commission may
cause to be acquired or constructed commercial and other types of development,
public and private, if
the Commission determines that the commercial developments are ancillary to
and necessary for the support of facilities within the District and any
other purposes of the District, after a public hearing held by a commissioner
or the person authorized by the Commission to conduct the hearing. The
Commissioner or other authorized persons shall have the power to administer
oaths and affirmations, take the testimony of witnesses, receive pertinent
evidence, and certify the record of the hearing to the Commission. The
record of the hearing shall become part of the Commissions records. Notice
of the time, place, and purpose of the hearing shall be given by a single
publication notice in a secular newspaper of general circulation in the
City of Chicago at least 10 days before the date of the hearing.
In addition to
the powers set forth above, the Commission may sell, lease,
develop, operate, and manage for any person,
firm, partnership, or corporation, either public or private, all or any part of
the land, buildings, facilities, equipment, or other property included in the
District Development Area and any medical research and high technology
park or the designated commercial
development area upon the terms and conditions the
Commission may deem advisable, and may enter into any contract or agreement
with any person, firm, partnership, or corporation, either public or
private, or any combination of the foregoing, as may be necessary or
suitable for the creation, marketing, development,
construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, financing, operation and
maintenance, and management of the District Development Area and any
technology
park or designated commercial development area; and may sell or lease
to any person, firm, partnership, or
corporation, either public or private, any part or all of the land,
building, facilities, equipment, or other property of the park or the
designated commercial development area upon the
rentals, terms, and conditions as the Commission may deem advisable; and
may finance all or part of the cost of the Commission's development and
operation of the District Development Area as well as any park or the
designated commercial
development area, including the creation, marketing,
development, purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction,
rehabilitation, improvement,
remodeling, addition to, extension, and maintenance of all or part of
the high technology park or the designated commercial development area, and all
equipment and furnishings, by legislative
appropriations, government grants, contracts, private gifts, loans,
bonds,
receipts from the sale or lease of land for the operation of the District and
any high
technology park or the designated commercial development area, rentals,
and similar receipts or other sources of revenue legally available for these
purposes.
The Commission shall promulgate rules concerning the procurement of contracts and purchases. The Commission also may defray the expenses of the operation of the District
Development Area and technology park, improvements to the District Development
Area and technology park, provision of shared services, common facilities and
common area expenses, benefiting owners and occupants of property within the
District Development Area and the technology park by general assessment,
special
assessment, or the imposition of service or user fees. As to the entities
eligible to be members of the advisory District Member Council,
such assessments or impositions may be undertaken only
with District Member Council
consent as provided in Section 8.
For a period of 6 years after July 1, 1995, the Commission may
acquire any real and personal property within the Development Area of the
District by immediate vesting of title, commonly referred to as "quick-take",
pursuant to Sections 7-103 through 7-112 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
(Source: P.A. 97-825, eff. 7-18-12.)
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