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65 ILCS 20/21-9
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-9)Sec. 21-9.         Deposit of funds - Bids - Designation of banks or savings  and loan associations.  It shall be the duty of the comptroller at least once in each year  before the first day of December to advertise for bids from savings and  loan associations or national and  State banks for interest upon the money of the city to be deposited in  banks or savings and loan associations. Such bids shall be reported  to the city council for its  information and consideration not later than the fifteenth day of  December of each year, to the end that an award or awards may be made  upon such bids by the city council before the beginning of each fiscal  year. Such awards shall be made to the highest and best responsible  bidder or bidders. The city council shall have the power to reject all  bids and to designate as many depositaries as it deems necessary for the  protection of the city's interests. Only a savings and loan association  or a regularly organized State or  national bank may be designated as a depositary. The city council shall  have power to pass all necessary ordinances to carry the foregoing  provisions into effect and provide rules applicable thereto. The city  treasurer shall be discharged from responsibility for all moneys  deposited by him in any bank or saving and loan association designated  as a depositary by order or  ordinance of the city council. When money is once deposited in such  depositary or depositaries, no check or draft shall be drawn against  such deposit without a warrant to the city treasurer signed by the mayor  and countersigned by the comptroller.No bank or savings and loan association shall receive public funds as  permitted by this Section, unless it has complied with the requirements  established pursuant to Section 6 of "An Act relating to certain investments of public  funds by public agencies", approved July 23, 1943, as now or hereafter amended.    (Source: P.A. 83-541.)
65 ILCS 20/21-10
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-10)Sec. 21-10.     Official bonds - Civil service employees not to be removed.The city council shall have the power to fix the amount and penalty of  the bonds of all city officers and of all municipal employees charged with  the custody of money or property. It shall also have the power to require  the giving of additional bonds, and to increase or decrease the amount and  penalty of the bonds of any officer, and to require the giving of a new  bond where the security of an original bond has become either insufficient  or in any way impaired, upon penalty of removal from office. The power  vested in the city council by this Section shall be so administered as to  protect the interests of the city from danger of financial loss, and shall  never be used as a means of removing any person from the civil service of  the city without a hearing before the Civil Service Commission, in  accordance with law. In any such case the city employee or official whose  office is sought to be declared vacant by reason of a failure to give a  new, additional, or increased bond, shall have the right to have a hearing  before the Civil Service Commission upon the question so involved.    (Source: Laws 1941, vol. 2, p. 19.)
65 ILCS 20/21-11
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-11)Sec. 21-11.     Corporation counsel.The head of the law department of the city shall be the corporation  counsel. The corporation counsel shall be and act as the legal adviser of  the city council and of the several officers, boards and departments of the  city. He shall appear for and protect the rights and interests of the city  in all actions, suits, and proceedings brought by or against it or any city  officer, board or department, including actions for damages when brought  against such officer in his official capacity; provided, however, that when  an officer or employee of the city is sued personally, even if the cause of  action arose out of his official duties, the corporation counsel shall  appear for such officer or employee only in case the city council directs  him to do so.    (Source: Laws 1941, vol. 2, p. 19.)
65 ILCS 20/21-12
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-12)Sec. 21-12. City clerk and city treasurer; election; tenure. At the time of election of the mayor there shall be elected also in a nonpartisan election a city  clerk and a city treasurer.  The candidates receiving a majority of the votes  cast for clerk and treasurer at the consolidated primary election shall be  declared the clerk and treasurer.  If no candidate receives a majority of the  votes for one of the offices, a runoff election shall be held at the  consolidated election, when only the names of the candidates receiving the  highest and second highest number of votes for that office at the consolidated  primary election shall appear on the ballot.  If more than one candidate  received the highest or second highest number of votes for one of the offices  at the consolidated primary election, the names of all candidates receiving the  highest and second highest number of votes for that office shall appear on the  ballot at the consolidated election.  The candidate receiving the highest  number of votes at the consolidated election shall be declared elected.The clerk and treasurer each shall hold office for a  term of 4 years beginning at noon on the third Monday in May  following the election and until a successor is elected and qualified.  No  person, however, shall be elected to the office of city treasurer for 2  terms in succession unless the city, by ordinance, establishes different succession terms.  (Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)
65 ILCS 20/prec. Sec. 21-13 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 POWERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
65 ILCS 20/21-13
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-13)Sec. 21-13.     Powers.The city council shall continue to have all the powers, obligations and  duties vested in and imposed upon such body by the other articles of this  Act, except so far as altered or modified by the provisions of this  article.    (Source: Laws 1941, vol. 2, p. 19.)
65 ILCS 20/21-14
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-14)Sec. 21-14. Member residency before election; member not to hold other  office.(a) No member may be elected or appointed to the city council after the  effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly unless he or  she has resided in the ward he or she seeks to represent at least one year next preceding the date of the election or appointment.  In the election following  redistricting, a candidate for alderperson may be elected from any ward containing  a part of the ward in which he or she resided for at least one year next preceding the  election that follows the redistricting,  and, if elected, that person may be reelected from the new ward he or she represents if he or she  resides in that ward for at least one year next preceding the reelection.(b) No member of the city council shall at the same time hold any other  civil service office under the federal, state or city government, except  if such member is granted a leave of absence from such civil service  office, or except in the National Guard, or as a notary public, and  except such honorary offices as go by appointment without compensation.  (Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)
65 ILCS 20/21-15
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-15)Sec. 21-15.         Mayor  may submit substitute ordinance.If any ordinance of the city council be returned by the mayor to the  council without his approval, the mayor may submit with the message stating  his objections thereto, a substitute ordinance, and after the vote by which  the original ordinance was passed is reconsidered, then, if no motion be  made to pass such original ordinance, the veto of the mayor to the contrary  notwithstanding, or if such motion be made and fails of adoption, such  substitute ordinance may forthwith be considered, unless two members of the  council demand the reference of such substitute ordinance to a committee  and if such demand be made, such substitute ordinance shall be so referred  unless two-thirds of the members of such council vote in favor of immediate  consideration thereof, and if such ordinance receives the affirmative vote  of a majority of all members of the council present and voting, shall take  effect and be in force in lieu of such vetoed ordinance.    (Source: Laws 1941, vol. 2, p. 19.)
65 ILCS 20/21-16
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-16)Sec. 21-16.         Veto  by mayor.Upon the veto of any ordinance by the mayor, if two-thirds of all the  members elected to the city council fail to pass the same, the veto of the  mayor to the contrary notwithstanding, said ordinance shall not again be  considered, unless or until introduced as an original ordinance, at a  subsequent meeting. But this Section shall not be construed to prevent the  introduction and consideration of a substitute or amended ordinance.    (Source: Laws 1941, vol. 2, p. 19.)
65 ILCS 20/21-17
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-17)Sec. 21-17.     Powers - Use of space over streets.The city council may also regulate the use of space over streets, alleys  and public places of the city, and upon payment of proper compensation, to  be fixed by ordinance, may permit the use of the space more than twelve  feet above the level thereof.    (Source: Laws 1941, vol. 2, p. 19.)
65 ILCS 20/21-18
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-18)Sec. 21-18.         May  acquire parks.The city of Chicago may acquire, by purchase or otherwise, municipal  parks, play grounds, public beaches and bathing places, and improve, equip,  maintain and regulate the same.    (Source: Laws 1941, vol. 2, p. 19.)
65 ILCS 20/21-19
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-19)Sec. 21-19.     Eminent domain.The city may exercise the right of eminent domain by condemnation  proceedings in conformity with the provisions of the constitution and  statutes of the State of Illinois for the acquirement of property useful,  advantageous or desirable for municipal purposes or public welfare.    (Source: Laws 1947, p. 497.)
65 ILCS 20/21-19.5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

Sec. 21-19.5. Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any power granted under this Act to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject to, and shall be exercised in accordance with, the Eminent Domain Act.  (Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)
65 ILCS 20/21-20
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-20)Sec. 21-20.         Abate  nuisances - Regulate hospitals.The city council shall by ordinance, be empowered to declare and define  nuisances and abate the same, and shall have the power to regulate the  location and conduct of hospitals and infirmaries.    (Source: Laws 1941, vol. 2, p. 19.)
65 ILCS 20/21-21
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-21)Sec. 21-21.     Excess condemnation.     In any case brought under the statutes of the State of Illinois for  the acquirement of property through the exercise of the right of eminent  domain, whether the same is done in connection with a local improvement  or otherwise, it shall be lawful for the city of Chicago to take a fee  simple and to hold, lease or sell more land than is needed for public  improvement whenever the court in which the proceedings have been  instituted finds that such excess land is required to protect, preserve  or aid the improvement and is reasonable in quantity therefor.    (Source: Laws 1941, vol. 2, p. 19.)
65 ILCS 20/prec. Sec. 21-22 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 ELECTION OF ALDERPERSONS    (Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)
65 ILCS 20/21-22
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-22)Sec. 21-22. General election for alderpersons; vacancies.(a) A general election for alderpersons shall be held in the year 1943 and every  4 years thereafter, at which one alderperson shall be elected from each of the 50  wards provided for by this Article.  The alderpersons elected shall serve for a  term of 4 years beginning at noon on the third Monday in May following  the election of city officers, and until their successors are elected and have  qualified. All elections for alderpersons shall be in accordance with the  provisions of law in force and operative in the City of Chicago for such  elections at the time the elections are held.(b) Vacancies occurring in the office of alderperson shall be filled in the  manner prescribed for filling vacancies in Section 3.1-10-51 of the Illinois  Municipal Code. An appointment to fill a vacancy shall be made within 60 days  after the vacancy occurs.  The requirement that an appointment be made within  60 days is an exclusive power and function of the State and is a denial and  limitation under Article VII, Section 6, subsection (h) of the Illinois  Constitution of the power of a home rule municipality to require that an  appointment be made within a different period after the vacancy occurs.  (Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)
65 ILCS 20/21-23
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-23)Sec. 21-23. Salaries of alderpersons.   The alderpersons in office when this Article is adopted and the alderpersons   elected under the provisions of this Article may receive for their services  such compensation as shall be fixed by ordinance, at the rate of not to  exceed eight thousand dollars per annum for each alderperson.  (Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)
65 ILCS 20/prec. Sec. 21-24 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 NONPARTISAN ELECTIONS
65 ILCS 20/21-24
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-24)Sec. 21-24. Application - recall elections. The provisions of this Article shall apply to all elections for alderpersons   in the city of Chicago. The name of no person shall be printed  upon the official ballot as a candidate for alderperson, unless the terms  of this Article shall have been complied with. If recall elections are  provided for, to be held within the city of Chicago, the provisions of  this Article shall apply to such elections, except to the extent that  provisions inconsistent herewith are made by the law providing for such  recall elections.  (Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)
65 ILCS 20/21-25
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-25)Sec. 21-25. Times for elections.  General elections for alderpersons  shall be held in the year or years fixed by law for holding the same, on  the last Tuesday of February of such year. Any supplementary election  for alderpersons held under the provisions of this Article shall be held on  the first Tuesday of April next following the holding of such general   election of alderpersons.   (Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21; 102-687, eff. 12-17-21.)
65 ILCS 20/21-26
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-26)Sec. 21-26. Candidates receiving majority elected - supplementary elections.   The candidate receiving a majority of the votes cast for alderperson in  each ward at any general or special election shall be declared elected. In  the event that no candidate receives a majority of such votes in any ward  or wards a supplementary election shall be held at the time prescribed in  Section 21-25. At such supplementary election the names of the candidates  in each of such wards receiving the highest and second highest number of  votes at the preceding general or special election and no others shall be  placed on the official ballot: Provided, however, that if there be any  candidate who, under the provisions of this Section would have been  entitled to a place on the ballot at the supplementary election except for  the fact that some other candidate received an equal number of votes, then  all such candidates receiving such equal number of votes shall have their  names printed on the ballot as candidates at such succeeding supplementary  election. The candidate receiving the highest number of votes at such  supplementary election shall be declared elected. Such supplementary  election shall be deemed a special election under the election and ballot  laws in force in the city of Chicago and shall be governed thereby except  in so far as such laws are inconsistent with the provisions of this  article.  (Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)
65 ILCS 20/21-27
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-27)Sec. 21-27. Election contest-complaint. Any candidate  whose name appears on the ballots used in any ward of the city at any election  for alderperson, may contest the election of the candidate who appears to be  elected from such ward on the face of the returns, or may contest the right  of the candidates who appear to have received the highest and second highest  number of votes to places on the official ballot at any supplementary election,  by filing within 5 days after such election with the Clerk of the Circuit  Court of Cook County, a  complaint in writing, verified by the candidate making the contest, setting  forth the grounds of the contest. The contestant in each contest shall also  serve notice on all persons who were candidates for alderperson of such ward  at the election, within such 5 days, informing them that such complaint has  been or will be filed. The Circuit Court of Cook County shall  have jurisdiction to hear and determine such contest. All proceedings in  relation to such contest after the filing of such complaint shall be the  same, as near as may be, as provided for in the case of a contest at a  primary election in such city. In case the court shall decide that the  complaint is insufficient in law, or that the candidate who appears to have  been elected on the face of the return has been duly elected, the complaint  shall be dismissed. If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court  that the face of the returns are not correct, and that the candidate who  appears thereby to have been elected was not in fact elected, then the  candidates having the highest and second highest number of votes as  determined by such contest shall be candidates at the subsequent  supplementary election as provided for in Section 21-26.  (Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)
65 ILCS 20/21-28
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-28)Sec. 21-28. Nomination by petition.(a) All nominations for alderperson of any ward in the city shall be by  petition. Each petition for nomination of a candidate shall be signed by at least 473 legal voters of the ward.(b) All nominations for mayor, city clerk, and city treasurer in the city shall be by petition. Each petition for nomination of a candidate must be signed by at least 12,500 legal voters of the city.(c) All such petitions, and procedure with  respect thereto,  shall conform in other respects to the provisions of the election and  ballot laws then in force in the city of Chicago concerning the nomination  of independent candidates for public office by petition. The method of  nomination herein provided is exclusive of and replaces all other methods  heretofore provided by law.  (Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)
65 ILCS 20/21-29
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-29)Sec. 21-29. Withdrawals and substitution of candidates.   Any candidate for alderperson under the provisions of this Article may  withdraw his name as a candidate by filing with the board of election  commissioners of the City of Chicago  not later than the date of certification of the ballot his written request signed by him and duly  acknowledged before an officer qualified to take acknowledgements of  deeds, whereupon his name shall not be printed as a candidate upon the  official ballot.If any candidate at an election of alderpersons who was not elected as  provided for in this Article but who shall have received sufficient votes  to entitle him to a place on the official ballot at the ensuing  supplementary election shall die or withdraw his candidacy before such  supplementary election, the name of the candidate who shall receive the  next highest number of votes shall be printed on the ballot in lieu of the  name of the candidate who shall have died or withdrawn his candidacy.  (Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)
65 ILCS 20/21-31
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 20/ - Revised Cities and Villages Act of 1941.|Article 21 - Optional - City Of Chicago

 (from Ch. 24, par. 21-31)Sec. 21-31.     Allotment of ballots by precincts.     Each precinct of any ward shall be allotted at least ten per cent more  ballots than there are registered voters in such  precinct.On the back or outside of the ballot of each precinct so as to appear  when folded shall be printed the appropriate words designating said ballot,  followed by the designation of said precinct, the date of the election, and  a facsimile of the signature of the proper election official.    (Source: P.A. 86-867.)