{"data":{"id":"us-il/735-ilcs-30-15-5-25","jurisdiction":"us-il","citation":"735 ILCS 30/15-5-25","heading":"Eminent domain powers in ILCS Chapters 205 through 430.","body":"The following provisions of law may include express grants of the power to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain:\n(220 ILCS 5/8-509); Public Utilities Act; public utilities; for construction of certain improvements.\n(220 ILCS 15/1); Gas Storage Act; corporations engaged in the distribution, transportation, or storage of natural gas or manufactured gas; for their operations.\n(220 ILCS 15/2 and 15/6); Gas Storage Act; corporations engaged in the distribution, transportation, or storage of natural gas or manufactured gas; for use of an underground geological formation for gas storage.\n(220 ILCS 30/13); Electric Supplier Act; electric cooperatives; for general purposes.\n(220 ILCS 55/3); Telegraph Act; telegraph companies; for telegraph lines.\n(220 ILCS 65/4); Telephone Company Act; telecommunications carriers; for telephone company purposes.\n(225 ILCS 435/23); Ferries Act; ferry operators; for a landing, ferryhouse, or approach.\n(225 ILCS 440/9); Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971; Department of Transportation; for removal of signs adjacent to highways.\n(310 ILCS 5/6 and 5/38); State Housing Act; housing corporations; for general purposes.\n(310 ILCS 10/8.3); Housing Authorities Act; housing authorities; for general purposes.\n(310 ILCS 10/8.15); Housing Authorities Act; housing authorities; for implementation of conservation plans and demolition.\n(310 ILCS 10/9); Housing Authorities Act; housing authorities; for general purposes.\n(310 ILCS 20/5); Housing Development and Construction Act; housing authorities; for development or redevelopment.\n(310 ILCS 35/2); House Relocation Act; political subdivisions and municipal corporations; for relocation of dwellings for highway construction.\n(315 ILCS 10/5); Blighted Vacant Areas Development Act of 1949; State of Illinois; for housing development.\n(315 ILCS 20/9 and 20/42); Neighborhood Redevelopment Corporation Law; neighborhood redevelopment corporations; for general purposes.\n(315 ILCS 25/4 and 25/6); Urban Community Conservation Act; municipal conservation boards; for conservation areas.\n(315 ILCS 30/12); Urban Renewal Consolidation Act of 1961; municipal departments of urban renewal; for blighted area redevelopment projects.\n(315 ILCS 30/20 and 30/22); Urban Renewal Consolidation Act of 1961; municipal departments of urban renewal; for implementing conservation areas.\n(315 ILCS 30/24); Urban Renewal Consolidation Act of 1961; municipal departments of urban renewal; for general purposes.\n(415 ILCS 95/6); Junkyard Act; Department of Transportation; for junkyards or scrap processing facilities.\n(420 ILCS 35/1); Radioactive Waste Storage Act; Illinois Emergency Management Agency; for radioactive by-product and waste storage.","path":["CHAPTER 735 CIVIL PROCEDURE","Eminent Domain Act."],"source_url":"https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ILCS/details?ActID=2819\u0026ChapterID=56\u0026ChapAct=FullText\u0026Print=True","current_through":"at least Public Act 104-790","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-15T04:46:43Z","sha256":"98cd821f2d15f7e276bae1892b05465d72d428bae13ab0ae966f4ea39502d7b0","source_id":"us-il","stale":false,"prev":"us-il/735-ilcs-30-15-5-20","next":"us-il/735-ilcs-30-15-5-30"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}