(65 ILCS 5/7-1-27) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-27)
Sec. 7-1-27.
Territory, within a municipality, which (1) is not less
than one-half square mile in area, but less than the whole of the
municipality, and which (2) is contiguous to another municipality, may
be annexed to the latter municipality as follows:
A petition, signed by not less than 100 of the electors of the
territory, shall be presented to the circuit court for the county
wherein the annexing municipality is situated. The petition shall
describe the territory and request that the question of the annexation
of the territory be submitted to the electors of the territory and also
to the electors of the disconnecting and annexing municipalities.
If the petition is in conformity with the law, the court
shall order the question of annexation of the
territory submitted to the specified electors at a general
municipal election to
be held in each of the municipalities affected. The clerk of the circuit
court shall certify the question for submission. No election for the
annexation of any part of a municipality to another municipality shall
be held within 22 months after a proposition to annex the whole or any
part of a municipality to another municipality has been voted upon at
any election.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489.)
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