(110 ILCS 50/4) (from Ch. 144, par. 5)

Sec. 4. Any corporation which has been incorporated under any special law of this state for the purpose of establishing or conducting a university, college, academy or other institution of learning may, by the unanimous consent of the board of trustees or directors, become incorporated under the provisions of "An Act to revise the law relating to Corporations not for pecuniary profit", approved July 17, 1943, as amended, and when so reorganized shall be deemed to have abandoned its organization under any special law or charter. The new corporation shall be entitled to and invested with all the real and personal estate of the old corporation subject to all the debts, contracts and liabilities of such old corporation.

(Source: Laws 1951, p. 1238.)