(65 ILCS 5/2-2-15) (from Ch. 24, par. 2-2-15)
Sec. 2-2-15.
Each boundary of the municipality shall extend to the far side of any
adjacent highway not included in any other municipality
and shall include all of every highway within the area incorporated. These
highways shall be considered to be incorporated even though not included in
the legal description set forth in the petition for incorporation. When
any land proposed to be incorporated includes any highway under the
jurisdiction of any township, the township commissioner of highways and
the board of town trustees shall be notified in writing by certified or
registered mail before any court hearing or other action is taken for
incorporation. If any municipality has been incorporated before
January 1, 1986 and the legal description in the petition for incorporation did not
include an adjacent highway, any such incorporation shall be valid and every
highway adjacent to the area incorporated and not included in any other
municipality shall be considered to be incorporated,
notwithstanding the failure of the petition to incorporate to include the
description of the adjacent highway.
(Source: P.A. 84-898.)
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