65 ILCS 5/7-1-26
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

 (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-26)Sec. 7-1-26.         Any territory containing 60 acres or less lying along  one or both sides of the boundary line between 2 adjoining  municipalities, and contiguous to a third municipality may be excluded  from one or both of the adjoining municipalities and annexed to the  third contiguous municipality, as follows:The corporate authorities of the excluding municipalities or  municipality shall, by majority vote of the corporate authorities then  holding office, adopt an ordinance providing for such exclusion, and the  corporate authorities of the annexing municipality shall adopt an  ordinance providing for the annexation of this territory. Upon the  adoption of these ordinances, the territory is thereby excluded from the  excluding municipalities and added to the annexing municipality. The  chief executive officer of each municipality thereupon shall file for  recordation an accurate map of the excluded or added territory, as the  case may be, together with a certified copy of the ordinance for  exclusion or annexation with the recorder of the county in which  the excluded or added territory, as the case may be, is situated. The  ordinance shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the  excluding and annexing municipalities and shall contain a notice of (1)  the specific number of voters required to sign a petition requesting the  question of disconnection and annexation to be submitted to the electors;  (2) the time in which such petition must be filed; and (3) the date of the  prospective referendum.  The clerks of the municipalities in which the territory is sought to be  disconnected or annexed shall provide a petition form to any individual  requesting one.Whenever any disconnection and annexation shall be effected as provided  in this Section any taxpayer in such area disconnected and annexed may,  within 10 days after adoption of the annexing ordinance, file with the  clerk of the circuit court in the county wherein the disconnected and  annexed area is located a petition signed by not less than 10% or 100,  whichever is lesser, of the electors of the area disconnected and  annexed, requesting the submission to a referendum of the following  proposition: "Shall the territory (here describe it) be disconnected  from the municipality of .... and annexed to the municipality of ....?"The circuit court, if it finds the petition to be in conformity with law,  shall order that the proposition be submitted at an election to be conducted  in accordance with the general election  law. The clerk of the circuit court shall certify the proposition to the  proper election authority for submission.  If a majority of  the voters voting on the proposition vote in favor thereof, such  disconnection and annexation shall be valid and binding. If a majority  of the vote is against such proposition the disconnection ordinance  adopted by the disconnecting municipality and the annexation ordinance  adopted by the annexing municipality shall be void.    (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)