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(315 ILCS 25/2) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 91.9)
Sec. 2.
Legislative finding and declaration.
It is hereby found and declared that there exist in many urban
communities within this State conservation areas, as defined herein; that
these conservation areas are rapidly deteriorating and declining in
desirability as residential communities and may soon become slum and
blighted areas if their decline is not checked; that the stable economic
and physical development of these areas is endangered by the presence of
blighting factors as manifested by progressive and advanced deterioration
of structures, by the over-use of housing and other facilities, by a lack
of physical maintenance of existing structures, by obsolete and inadequate
community facilities and a lack of sound community planning; that as a
result and concomitant of the decline of conservation areas, there is a
growth of delinquency, crime, and of housing and zoning law violations in
such areas, together with an abnormal exodus of families; that the decline
of these areas threatens to impair the tax base of such communities and
produce the conditions characteristic of slum and blighted areas which
threaten the health, safety, morals, and welfare of the public; that in
order to promote and protect the health, safety, morals and welfare of the
public it is necessary to provide for the protection of such conservation
areas and prevent their deterioration into slum and blighted areas. The
granting to the municipalities of this State of the powers herein provided
is directed to that end, and the use of such rights and powers for the
prevention of slums is hereby declared to be a public use essential to the
public interest.
(Source: Laws 1953, p. 1240.)
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