Talk:List of Illinois townships

message: It looks like Williamson County, Illinois has precincts not townships per Name Index to Illinois Local Governments and Williamson County Fact Sheet says township government was discontinued in 1932. I'm guessing its listed here because the US census calls them townships in the factfinder. Anyone object to moving them to the List of precincts in Illinois? --Dual Freq 19:02, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Williamson County

message: It seems to me that the county name needs to be included in the article link.  I realize there is a separate list of townships by county, but if one is looking at this list and looking for a township by name, it would be helpful if the name of the parent county appeared in the link too, especially since there is some name duplication among townships.  I can add these pretty easily.  Omnedon (talk) 23:20, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Counties 

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message: I had a question for coterminous townships.  The article seems to mention that Granite City Township isn't coterminous, but I found this 1993 court case which seems to say it is (for certain purposes)?
https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/591486bcadd7b049344da532
Since this was an appellate decision, how was this case ultimately decided?  In any case, if the borders are not coterminous, is there anywhere where it can be found into how many townships Granite City extends into (it appears it's larger than Granite City Township), and if any cities extend into Granite City Township aside from Granite City?  Granite City's own website does not show a map of the city boundaries overlayed on the township's boundaries, and the townships website is practically useless; I can find this nowhere. --Criticalthinker (talk) 15:12, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: After reading it through three or four times, I'm a bit more clear about this.  In fact, this case rules that Granite City is not actually coterminous with Granite City Township after its annexations, but that it fuctionally remains coterminous.  It's something of a mixed signal.  But most importantly is what it means to be a coterminous township, and on that I'm a bit less clear.  What I'm most clear on is that functional coterminous status allows Granite City and Granite City Township to merge certain elected and appointed offices which duplicate one another (not sure if they ever have done this) even after the two are no longer actually coterminous.  What is less clear to me is what coterminous status means as it relates to Granite City and Granite City Township's ability to annex, which is something brought up in the ruling.  There seems to be some difference in the mechanisms of annexation between coterminous townships/cities and non-conterimonous townships/cities, but I can't tell what those are.  Can anyone make sense of that near the end of the ruling?  BTW, using TIGERweb (https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/tigerweb/), I've been able to find that Granite City covers all of Granite City Township, but also extends into parts Chouteau, Venice, and Nameoki townships.  Weirdly, there appears to be "island" exclaves of townships in each surrounding township. --Criticalthinker (talk) 09:39, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coterminous Townships 

message: Seems to be missing from the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evanston_Township,_Cook_County,_Illinois 38.32.141.154 (talk) 20:41, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evanston Township