(215 ILCS 5/264) (from Ch. 73, par. 876)
    Sec. 264. Approval of documents.
    The documents and papers so delivered to the Director may be approved or disapproved by the Director and the incorporators shall be entitled to a hearing in the same manner as provided in section 18 in the case of documents delivered for approval in connection with the organization of stock companies. If the documents and papers so delivered are approved by the Director, he shall thereupon place on file in his office by-laws, forms of applications, policies, literature, advertisements, forms of guaranty subscriptions and certificates, if any, bonds or securities and one of the duplicate originals of the articles of incorporation and endorse upon the other duplicate original his approval thereof and the month, day and year of his approval and deliver it to the incorporators. The company shall be deemed to be fully established as a body corporate as of the date of the approval of the articles of incorporation by the Director, and said date shall be the date of incorporation of the company.
(Source: Laws 1959, p. 627.)