(70 ILCS 605/3-24) (from Ch. 42, par. 3-24)
    Sec. 3-24. Effect of order organizing district.
    When the order organizing the district is given or made, the district shall become and be a body politic and corporate under the name set forth in such order, with the right to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to contract and be contracted with, and to have perpetual succession.
(Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)