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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 January 2025. "Cities in Illinois" redirects here. For unincorporated communities, see List of unincorporated communities in Illinois. For CDPs, see List of census-designated places in Illinois. Map of the United States with Illinois highlighted Illinois is a state located in the Midwestern United ...
However, unlike physically conterminous municipalities, functional coterminous municipalities can not unilaterally annex small portions of adjacent township territory, [16] and must follow the regular annexation process laid out in the Illinois Municipal Code. [17] As of 2013, coterminous townships included:
Strip annexation was widely used by the municipalities of the Phoenix metropolitan area during the 1970s to preemptively gain control of large areas of land before other municipalities, without having to annex more than a thin strip surrounding a large so-called county island. The strip protected the county island from being annexed by other ...
Municipal annexation is the legal process by which a city or other municipality acquires land as its jurisdictional territory (as opposed to simply owning the land the way individuals do). [1] The annexed land is typically not part of any other municipality.
Hyde Park Township is a former civil township in Cook County, Illinois, United States that existed as a separate municipality from 1861 until 1889 when it was annexed into the city of Chicago. [1] Its borders are Pershing Road (formerly 39th Street) on the north, State Street on the west, Lake Michigan and the Indiana state line on the east ...
Incorporated by the state, villages and cities are carved out of a town's land by petition and annexation. Most of Wisconsin's 72 counties have all three forms of local government — cities ...
Known as the "hole in the doughnut" law, the statute caused unincorporated areas fully surrounded by cities with coterminous townships to be automatically annexed into those cities. When the annexation became public in February 1987, an intense campaign led by the Laketown Association led the Springfield city council to exercise its home rule ...
Theisen said building types allowed in the township but not in Sartell will be grandfathered in with the annexation. She also said residents can hook up to water utilities for a discounted rate of ...