Illinois Compiled Statutes
Chapter 610 - RAILROADS
610 ILCS 130/ - Elevated Railroad Approval Act.

(610 ILCS 130/0.01) (from Ch. 131 1/4, par. 12.9)
Sec. 0.01.
Short title.
This Act may be cited as the
Elevated Railroad Approval Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(610 ILCS 130/1) (from Ch. 131 1/4, par. 13)
Sec. 1.

That no person or persons, corporation or
corporations, shall construct or maintain any elevated railroad or any
elevated way or conveyor to be operated by steam power, or animal power or
any other motive power, along any street or alley in any incorporated city
or village, except by the permission of the city council or board of
trustees of such city or village, granted upon a petition of the owners of
the lands representing more than one-half of the frontage of the street or
alley, or of so much thereof as is sought to be used for such elevated
railroad or elevated way or conveyor; and the city council, or board of
trustees, shall have no power to grant permission to use any street or
alley, or part thereof, for any of the purposes aforesaid, except upon such
petition of landowners as is herein provided for.

(Source: Laws 1883, p. 126.)

(610 ILCS 130/2) (from Ch. 131 1/4, par. 14)
Sec. 2.

When the street or alley, or part thereof, sought to be used for
any of the purposes aforesaid shall be more than one mile in extent, no
petition of land owners shall be valid for the purposes of this act, unless
the same shall be signed by the owners of the land representing more than
one-half of the frontage of each mile and fractional part of a mile, of
such street or alley or of the part thereof sought to be used for any of
the purposes aforesaid.

(Source: Laws 1883, p. 126.)