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State law specifies that no two townships in Illinois shall have the same name, [3] and that, if the Illinois Secretary of State compares the township abstracts and finds a duplicate, the county that last adopted the name shall instead adopt a different name at the next county board meeting. [4]
Counties lacking township government. Of the 102 counties in the state of Illinois, 17 are divided into minor civil divisions known as precincts. [1] The 261 [citation needed] such precincts in Illinois are listed below.
Rockford Township, Winnebago County, Illinois - 291.88 km² (112.7 sq mi) Grant Township, Vermilion County, Illinois - 225.32 km² (87.0 sq mi) Wade Township, Jasper County, Illinois - 193 km² (74.5 mi²) Wabash Township, Clark County, Illinois - 189.3 km² (73.1 sq mi) Butler Township, Vermilion County, Illinois - 186.9 km² (72.1 sq mi)
The basic subdivisions of Illinois are the 102 counties. [2] Illinois has more units of local government than any other state—over 8,000 in all. [3] The Constitution of 1970 created, for the first time in Illinois, a type of "home rule", which allows localities to govern themselves to a certain extent. [4]
C. Cahokia Township, Macoupin County, Illinois; Caledonia Township, Boone County, Illinois; Calumet Township, Cook County, Illinois; Camargo Township, Douglas County ...
Knox would later become a county in Indiana and is unrelated to the current Knox County in Illinois, while St. Clair would become the oldest county in Illinois. 15 counties had been created by the time Illinois achieved statehood in 1818. The last county, Ford County, was created in 1859.
Libertyville Township is a township in Lake County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census , its population was 53,139. [ 2 ] The village of Libertyville is part of the township, as are parts of Green Oaks , Lake Bluff , Lake Forest , Mettawa , Mundelein , North Chicago , Rondout , Vernon Hills and Waukegan .
"Whereas, It appears from a communication from the Auditor of State to the Clerk of the County Court that, by a decision in his office, the names of the Towns [sic Townships] of Harrison, Eagle and Brooklyn must be changed, in pursuance of which the name of the Town is changed to the name of Maryland; the name of the Town of Brooklyn is changed to Rockvale, and the name of the Town of Eagle is ...