(70 ILCS 1255/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 143)
Sec. 1.
Every board of park commissioners or park
authorities may connect any public park, boulevard or driveway under its
control with any part of any incorporated city, town or village by
selecting and taking any connecting street or part thereof leading to such
park, boulevard or driveway, and may accept and add to any park under its
control any street or part thereof which adjoins or runs parallel to a
boundary line of such park. Streets so selected, to the extent taken, must
lie within the territory of the park district. The consent of the corporate
authorities having control of a street so selected and the consent in
writing of the owners of a majority of the frontage of the land abutting
the part of the street that has been selected must be obtained before that
part may be taken.
(Source: P.A. 76-894.)
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