(105 ILCS 5/8-12) (from Ch. 122, par. 8-12)

Sec. 8-12. Name in which securities taken-Actions.

Bonds, mortgages, notes and other securities taken for money or other property due, or to become due, to the trustees of schools for the township, shall be made payable to them in their corporate name; and in such name, suits, actions and complaints, and every description of legal proceedings may be had for the recovery of money, breach of contracts and for every legal liability which may at any time arise or exist, or upon which a right of action shall accrue to the use of such corporation.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)