105 ILCS 5/9-22
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 9 - Elections

(105 ILCS 5/9-22) (from Ch. 122, par. 9-22)Sec. 9-22.     School board districts; changing manner of election.     A  school board may by resolution or shall, upon the petition of the lesser of  2,500 or 5% of the district's registered voters, order submitted to the  district's voters at a regular school election or at the general election, the  proposition for the election of board members by school board district, and the  proposition shall thereupon be certified by the board's secretary for  submission.  If the proposition is approved by a majority of those voting on  the proposition, the board shall divide the school district into 7 school board  districts, each of which must be compact and contiguous and substantially equal  in population to each other district.  The terms of office of the board members  incumbent at the time the proposition is adopted expire on the day of the next  regular school election, at which time one member shall be elected from each  school board district. In districts which have 4 year terms, those members  first elected after adoption of such a proposition shall, by lot, determine  3 to serve for 2 years and 4 for 4 years; their successors shall serve for  a 4 year term. In districts which have 6 year terms, those members first  elected after adoption of such a proposition shall, by lot, determine 3 to  serve for 2 years, 2 for 4 years and 2 for 6 years; their successors shall  serve for a 6 year term.  Vacancies shall be filled as provided in Section  10-10.In the year following each decennial census, the school board shall  reapportion the board districts to reflect the results of such census;  provided, that no decennial reapportionment shall be required in any school  district which elects its board members by school board district rather than at  large if: (i) on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1990, such school  district last elected its board members by school board district at the  nonpartisan election in 1989; (ii) the terms of the board members so elected  were determined by lot after that election and prior to January 1, 1990; and  (iii) the population of each existing school board district in that school  district at the time of the decennial census is within 5% of  what would be the population in the corresponding school board district  that would result were the school board districts in that school district to  be reapportioned following that decennial census as otherwise required  by this paragraph.  If reapportionment is required by this paragraph, the  school board districts shall be compact, contiguous and substantially equal in  population, and such reapportionment plan shall be completed and formally  approved by a majority of the members of the board not less than 90 days  before the last date established by law for the submission of nominating  petitions for the next school board election.  At the same board meeting,  the board shall, publicly by lot, divide the board districts as equally as  possible into 2 groups.  In school districts which have 4 year terms, board  members or their successors from one group shall be elected for successive  terms of 2 years, 4 years and 4 years; and members or their successors from  the second group shall be elected for successive terms of 4 years, 4 years  and 2 years.  In school districts which have 6 year terms, board members or  their successors from one group shall be elected for successive terms of 4  years and 6 years; and members or their successors from the second group  shall be elected for successive terms of 6 years and 4 years.In any school district in which the members of the school board are  elected by school board district rather than at large, the school board may  by resolution or shall, upon the petition of the lesser of 2,500 or 5% of  the school district's registered voters, order submitted to the school  district's voters at a regular school election or at the general election,  the proposition for the election of board members at large rather than by  school board district; and the proposition shall thereupon be certified by  the board's secretary for submission.  If a majority of those voting at the  election in each school board district vote in favor of the proposition:  (i) the proposition to elect board members at large shall be deemed to have  passed, (ii) new members of the board shall be elected at large at the next  regular school election, and (iii) the terms of office of the board members  incumbent at the time the proposition is adopted shall expire when the new  board members that are elected at large have organized in accordance with  Section 10-16.  In school districts that formerly elected their members by  school board district to successive terms not exceeding 4 years, the  members elected at large shall be elected for a term of 4 years, and in  school districts that formerly elected their members by school board  district to successive terms not exceeding 6 years, the members elected at  large shall be elected for a term of 6 years; provided, that in each case  the terms of the board members initially elected at large as provided in  this paragraph shall be staggered and determined in accordance with the  provisions of Sections 10-10 and 10-16.    (Source: P.A. 87-1139; 87-1210; 88-45.)