(105 ILCS 5/15-19) (from Ch. 122, par. 15-19)
Sec. 15-19.
Dedication of streets and highways.
The trustees of schools or township land commissioners may dedicate to
public use for street and highway purposes as much of the unimproved common
school lands as may be necessary to open or extend any street or highway
which may be ordered by the municipal authorities to be opened or extended,
if they are of the opinion that the benefit to accrue from the opening or
extending of such street or highway will compensate for the strip so
dedicated. It is unlawful for any street or other railroad company to lay
tracks on any strip of the common school lands so dedicated, or use them or
any part thereof for railroad or street railroad purposes, except upon the
purchase or lease thereof from the proper authorities or upon payment to
the school fund of the township of the value of such use or land the same
as if no street or highway had been laid out thereon, to be determined by
condemnation proceedings. This section does not affect existing leases or
contracts for the lease or purchase of common school lands.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)
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