Consolidation of Local Governments in Chicago: Draft of a Proposed Article of the Constitution of the State of Illinois Providing for the Consolidation of Local Governments Having Jurisdiction Wholly Or Partly Within the City of Chicago, Together with Explanatory Statement1920 - 23 pages |
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abolished adjoining county amendment thereof authority having jurisdiction Bureau believes BUREAU OF PUBLIC cago CHICAGO BUREAU Chiengo city and approved city and county City government City of Chicago consolidating and vesting Consolidation of Local CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES Cook County Cook lying county consolidation County Court county government county of Cook County Treasurer December District of Chicago effect until submitted ELECTOR IN CHICAGO Entire County Forest Preserve District func functions and powers give the legislature government or authority governments having jurisdiction Governments in Chicago home rule charter-making ILLINOIS PROVIDING jurisdiction partly jurisdiction wholly lature law or laws legal voters legislature power Lincoln Park majority thereof voting ment Methods of Administration Municipal Court municipal or special November number of elective Organization and Methods outlying park boards Park Governments prescribed by law present constitution Print proposed article PUBLIC EFFICIENCY question Sanitary District South Park Superior Court take effect taxes territorial limits Unification WHOLLY OR PARTLY
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Page 20 - ... in case the General Assembly shall create municipal courts in the city of Chicago it may abolish the offices of Justices of the Peace, Police Magistrates and Constables in and for the territory within said city, and may limit the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in the territory of said county of Cook outside of said city to that territory...
Page 15 - Chicago, the powers now vested in the city, board of education, township, park and other local governments and authorities having jurisdiction confined to or within said territory, or any part thereof, and...
Page 6 - ... article of the new constitution, and a statement in explanation thereof, in the hope that they may be of some value to the members of the Constitutional Convention and to the public. In this pamphlet no attempt has been made to discuss in detail many phases of the consolidation problem. For more complete information on this subject reference is made to the report of the Chicago Bureau of Public Efficiency entitled "Unification of Local Governments in Chicago...
Page 16 - ... the incurring of such indebtedness (but no new bonded indebtedness, other than for refunding purposes, shall be incurred until the proposition therefor shall be consented to by a majority of the legal voters of said city voting on the question at any election, general, municipal or special) ; and...
Page 21 - COUNTY President of County Board 1 County Commissioners 10 State's Attorney 1 Sheriff 1 County Treasurer 1 County Clerk and Clerk of County Court 1 County Recorder 1 Coroner 1 County Superintendent of Schools 1 County Surveyor 1 Members of Board of Assessors 5 Members of Board of Review 3 Judges of Superior Court 20 Judges of Circuit Court 20 Judge of Probate Court 1 Judge of County Court. 1 Clerk of Superior Court 1 Clerk of Circuit Court 1 Clerk of Criminal Court 1 Clerk of Probate Court 1...
Page 7 - ... under the jurisdiction of both of these larger districts. Other bodies have authority over only part of the city ; but every resident of the city is subject in some degree to one or more of these authorities. Below is a list of the local governing agencies within the limits of the city of Chicago: Cook County Forest Preserve District Sanitary District of Chicago City of Chicago Board of Education Library Board Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium 14 towns (8 of these wholly within the city have...
Page 20 - The said city council may, however, levy and collect a tax for city purposes greater than one per cent., provided the same be done with the consent of a majority of the legal voters of said city voting at a general or special election ordered for such purpose.
Page 9 - Chicago governments should be consolidated into a single municipality and the number of elections and of elective officials should be reduced. The need for these changes has long been recognized, but the increasing cost of government in recent years and mounting taxes serve TO emphasize the necessity for action and to make it imperative that steps be taken to afford relief. In January, 1917, the Chicago Bureau of Public Efficiency, in a report on unification, estimated that the consolidation and...
Page 21 - ... Clerk and Clerk of County Court 1 County Recorder 1 Coroner 1 County Superintendent of Schools 1 County Surveyor 1 Board of Assessors 5 Board of Review 3 Judges of Circuit Court 20 Judges of Superior Court 20 Judge of Probate Court 1 Judge of County Court 1 Clerk of Circuit Court 1 Clerk of Superior Court 1 Clerk of Criminal Court 1 Clerk of Probate Court 1 Clerk of Appellate Court 1 79 Of these, twenty-seven are elected at the same time, at the November elections in the...
Page 7 - Commissioners West Chicago Park Commissioners Lincoln Park Commissioners Ridge Avenue Park Commissioners North Shore Park Commissioners Calumet Park Commissioners Fernwood Park Commissioners Ridge Park Commissioners Irving Park Commissioners Northwest Park Commissioners Old Portage Park Commissioners Edison Park Commissioners West Pullman Park Commissioners (partly outside Chicago) Ravenswood Manor-Gardens Park Commissioners River Park Commissioners Commissioners of the First Park District of the...