(70 ILCS 1245/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 120)
Sec. 1.
That every board of park commissioners shall
have power to connect any public park, boulevard or driveway under its
control with any part of any incorporated city, town or village, by
selecting and taking any connecting street or streets or part thereof
leading to such park; and shall also have power to accept and add to any
such park, any street or part thereof which adjoins and runs parallel with
any boundary line of the same, Provided, that the streets so selected and
taken, so far as taken, shall lie within the district or territory the
property of which shall be taxable for the maintenance of such parks: And
provided further, that the consent of the corporate authorities having
control of any such street or streets so far as selected and taken, and
also the consent in writing of the owners of a majority of the frontage of
the lots and lands abutting on such street or streets so far as taken,
shall be first obtained: And provided further, that every board of park
commissioners who shall have exercised the power hereinabove granted to
select and take streets or parts of streets for the purpose of connecting
any public park, boulevard or driveway under its control with any part of
any incorporated city, town or village, shall have the power to abandon and
surrender over any street or part of any street forming the whole or any
part of such connection so made, to the proper corporate authorities of the
city, village or town respectively, to which the control of any such street
or part of a street so abandoned would revert, and for the purpose of
connecting the same points or of making any portion of such connection, to
select and take in place of any streets, street or part of a street so
surrendered, any other and different streets, street or part of a street,
which may be desirable and expedient for making the said connection; but
such power shall only be exercised upon the consent first obtained of the
proper corporate authorities to whom the control of the streets, street or
parts of a street, so far as abandoned would revert, and of the proper
corporate authorities having control of the streets, street or part of a
street, so far as proposed to be taken, and upon the consent in writing
first obtained of the owners of a majority of the frontage of the lots and
lands abutting on the streets, street or part of a street so far as
abandoned, and upon the consent in writing first obtained of the owners of
a majority of the frontage of the lots and lands abutting on the streets,
street or part of a street, so far as proposed to be taken.
(Source: Laws 1895, p. 270.)
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