20 ILCS 3501/840-15

The Authority is authorized and empowered to acquire, directly or by and through a participating health institution as its agent, by purchase solely from funds provided under the authority of this Act, or by gift or legacy, such lands, structures, property, real or personal, rights, rights-of-way, franchises, easements and other interests in lands, including lands lying under water and riparian rights, which are located within the State as it may deem necessary or convenient for the construction or operation of a project, upon such terms and at such prices as may be considered by it to be reasonable and can be agreed upon between it and the owner thereof, and to take title thereto in the name of the Authority or in the name of a participating health institution as its agent.