65 ILCS 5/11-135-6
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-135-6)Sec. 11-135-6. Whenever such commission shall pass an ordinance for the  construction or acquisition of any waterworks properties, or improvements  or extension or mains, pumping stations, reservoirs or other appurtenances  thereto, which such commission is authorized to make, the making of which  will require that private property be taken or damaged, such commission may  cause compensation therefor to be ascertained and may condemn and acquire  possession thereof in the same manner as nearly as may be, as provided for  the exercise of the right of eminent domain under the Eminent Domain Act. However,  proceedings to ascertain the compensation to be paid for taking or damaging  private property shall in all cases be instituted in the circuit court  of the county where the property sought to be taken or damaged is situated.In addition, when a Water Commission created under the Water Commission  Act of 1985, as amended, requires that public property be taken or damaged  for the purposes specified above, such commission may condemn and acquire  possession of public property and cause compensation for such public  property to be ascertained in the same manner provided for the exercise of  the right of eminent domain under the Eminent Domain Act, during such time as the Commission has the power to  initiate action in the manner provided by Article 20 of the Eminent Domain Act (quick-take procedure).In the event a Commission created under the Water Commission Act of  1985 shall determine that negotiations for the acquisition of property or  easements for making any  improvement which such Commission is authorized to make have proven  unsuccessful and the Commission shall have by resolution adopted a schedule  or plan of operation for the execution of the project and therein made a  finding that it is necessary to take such property or easements immediately  or at some specified later date in order to comply with the schedule, the  Commission may commence proceedings to acquire such property or easements  in the same manner provided in Article 20 of the Eminent Domain Act (quick-take procedure); except that if the property or easement is  located in a municipality having more than 2,000,000 inhabitants, the  Commission may not commence such proceedings until the acquisition has been  approved by ordinance of the corporate authorities of the municipality.Any commission has the power to acquire, hold, sell, lease as lessor or  lessee, transfer or dispose of real or personal property, or interest  therein, as it deems appropriate in the exercise of its powers for its  lawful purposes. When, in the opinion of a commission, real estate owned by  it, however acquired, is no longer necessary, appropriate, required for  the use of, profitable to, or for best interest of the commission, such  commission may, by resolution, lease such surplus real estate for a period  not to exceed 99 years, or sell such surplus real estate, in accordance  with procedures adopted by resolution by such commission.       (Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)