(70 ILCS 1920/10)
Sec. 10.
Creation; duration.
There is created a body politic and
corporate, a unit of local government, named the West Cook
Railroad
Relocation and Development Authority, embracing that portion of Proviso
Township embracing that portion of the Village of Bellwood and the Village of
Melrose Park from St. Charles Road on the South to Lake Street on the North,
and from the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad on the West to 22nd Avenue on the
East, Cook County, Illinois and the Village of Maywood, Cook County,
Illinois. The Authority shall continue in existence until
the accomplishment of its objective, the relocation of the railroad tracks and
25th Avenue, the grade separation of railroads from the right of way and
at-grade crossing closures within the Village of Bellwood and the Village of
Melrose Park, the grade separation of railroads from the right-of-way and at
grade crossing in the First Avenue vicinity between Lake Street, Oak Street,
the Des Plaines River, and Fifth Avenue, and the establishment of a
transit-oriented intersurface modal
development facility in the project area, or until the Authority officially
resolves that it is impossible or economically unfeasible to fulfill that
objective.
(Source: P.A. 91-562, eff. 8-14-99; 92-352, eff. 8-15-01.)
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