Full Text of SB1211 94th General Assembly
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| AN ACT concerning civil law.
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| WHEREAS, The State of Illinois owns certain real property | 3 |
| in the City of Chicago in the Dunning Community Area in Cook | 4 |
| County, located in Township 40 North, Range 13 East, Section | 5 |
| 18, that is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Human | 6 |
| Services for the operation of the Chicago Read Mental Health | 7 |
| Center; and | 8 |
| WHEREAS, Approximately 30 acres of the Chicago Read Mental | 9 |
| Health Center property contain 2 wetlands, an emergent wetland, | 10 |
| and other open space that benefit the protection of the Des | 11 |
| Plaines watershed; and | 12 |
| WHEREAS, State-owned wetlands are governed by and must be | 13 |
| managed
according to the Interagency Wetlands Policy Act of | 14 |
| 1989 and provisions of Part 1090 of Title 17 of the Illinois | 15 |
| Administrative Code; and | 16 |
| WHEREAS, The mission of the Illinois Department of Human | 17 |
| Services is to improve the health, well-being, and quality of | 18 |
| life of Illinois citizens; and | 19 |
| WHEREAS, Parks, open spaces, and forests are important | 20 |
| components for the health and well-being of urban residents, | 21 |
| contributing to the prevention and amelioration of illness not | 22 |
| only by facilitating improvements in physical fitness through | 23 |
| exercise, but also by facilitating positive emotional, | 24 |
| intellectual, and social experiences; and | 25 |
| WHEREAS, The Dunning Community Area, in which the property | 26 |
| is located, has been identified as underserved by open space | 27 |
| and parks in the Land Policies Plans completed by the City and | 28 |
| the Chicago Park District, that note that 2 large segments of | 29 |
| the Dunning Community have no open space or parkland | 30 |
| whatsoever; and |
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| WHEREAS, The Dunning property was originally donated to | 2 |
| Cook County in 1868 by the Dunning family for health and social | 3 |
| purposes and was operated by the County as a "poor farm" and a | 4 |
| facility for the mentally ill until 1912; and | 5 |
| WHEREAS, In 1912 Cook County conveyed the 235-acre Dunning | 6 |
| property to the State of Illinois to be used for health and | 7 |
| social purposes as stated in the original land covenant; | 8 |
| therefore | 9 |
| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 10 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Illinois Department of Human Services is | 12 |
| hereby authorized to grant and convey a permanent conservation | 13 |
| easement to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources on a | 14 |
| parcel containing 30 acres, more
or less, that is located in | 15 |
| Section 18, Township 40 North, Range 13 East of the third | 16 |
| principal meridian, Cook County, Illinois, situated to the West | 17 |
| and South of the Chicago Read Mental Health Center, for the | 18 |
| purpose of preserving and protecting the wetlands and forested | 19 |
| area for the benefit of the patients of the
facility, the | 20 |
| community, and the general public, this 30-acre parcel being | 21 |
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particularly described under Section 10 of this Act.
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| Section 10. A parcel containing 30 acres, more or less, | 23 |
| located in Section 18, Township 40 North, Range 13 East of the | 24 |
| third principal meridian, Cook County, Illinois, situated to | 25 |
| the West and South of the Chicago Read Mental Health Center, a | 26 |
| more accurate description to be made by an Illinois | 27 |
| professional land surveyor, the cost of the survey to be paid | 28 |
| for by Friends of the Parks.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 30 |
| becoming law.
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