Bill Text: IL SB1822 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Amends the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act of the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that, if a redevelopment plan is for a qualifying transit facility located within a transit facility improvement area and the applicable project is subject to the process for evaluation of environmental effects under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, then a housing impact study need not be performed. Provides that, for a transit facility improvement area established prior to, on, or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the following apply: (i) defines "redevelopment project costs"; and (ii) provides that specified provisions regarding tax increment allocation financing for a redevelopment project area located in a transit facility improvement area shall apply only to the lots, blocks, tracts, and parcels of real property that are located within the boundaries of such redevelopment project area and not to the lots, blocks, tracts and parcels of real property that are located outside the boundaries of such redevelopment project area. Provides that, on and after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the following provisions apply to transit facility improvement areas, and to redevelopment project areas located in a transit facility improvement area, established prior to, on, or after the effective date of the amendatory Act: a redevelopment project area established within a transit facility improvement area whose boundaries satisfy specified requirements shall be deemed to satisfy specified contiguity requirements, regardless of whether all of the parcels of real property included in the redevelopment project area are adjacent to one another, and this applies through and including the completion date of the redevelopment project located within the transit facility improvement area established and the date of retirement of obligations issued to finance redevelopment project costs. In provisions concerning municipal powers and duties in redevelopment project areas, provides that the various powers and duties described applying to a redevelopment project area shall also apply to a transit facility improvement area established either prior to or after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Extends the dates of completion of various redevelopment project areas. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Passed) 2021-08-27 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0627 [SB1822 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB1822-Chaptered.html

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Public Act 102-0627
SB1822 Enrolled LRB102 15348 AWJ 20708 b
AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
changing Sections 11-74.4-3, 11-74.4-3.3, 11-74.4-3.5, and
11-74.4-4 as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/11-74.4-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-74.4-3)
Sec. 11-74.4-3. Definitions. The following terms, wherever
used or referred to in this Division 74.4 shall have the
following respective meanings, unless in any case a different
meaning clearly appears from the context.
(a) For any redevelopment project area that has been
designated pursuant to this Section by an ordinance adopted
prior to November 1, 1999 (the effective date of Public Act
91-478), "blighted area" shall have the meaning set forth in
this Section prior to that date.
On and after November 1, 1999, "blighted area" means any
improved or vacant area within the boundaries of a
redevelopment project area located within the territorial
limits of the municipality where:
(1) If improved, industrial, commercial, and
residential buildings or improvements are detrimental to
the public safety, health, or welfare because of a

combination of 5 or more of the following factors, each of
which is (i) present, with that presence documented, to a
meaningful extent so that a municipality may reasonably
find that the factor is clearly present within the intent
of the Act and (ii) reasonably distributed throughout the
improved part of the redevelopment project area:
(A) Dilapidation. An advanced state of disrepair
or neglect of necessary repairs to the primary
structural components of buildings or improvements in
such a combination that a documented building
condition analysis determines that major repair is
required or the defects are so serious and so
extensive that the buildings must be removed.
(B) Obsolescence. The condition or process of
falling into disuse. Structures have become ill-suited
for the original use.
(C) Deterioration. With respect to buildings,
defects including, but not limited to, major defects
in the secondary building components such as doors,
windows, porches, gutters and downspouts, and fascia.
With respect to surface improvements, that the
condition of roadways, alleys, curbs, gutters,
sidewalks, off-street parking, and surface storage
areas evidence deterioration, including, but not
limited to, surface cracking, crumbling, potholes,
depressions, loose paving material, and weeds

protruding through paved surfaces.
(D) Presence of structures below minimum code
standards. All structures that do not meet the
standards of zoning, subdivision, building, fire, and
other governmental codes applicable to property, but
not including housing and property maintenance codes.
(E) Illegal use of individual structures. The use
of structures in violation of applicable federal,
State, or local laws, exclusive of those applicable to
the presence of structures below minimum code
standards.
(F) Excessive vacancies. The presence of buildings
that are unoccupied or under-utilized and that
represent an adverse influence on the area because of
the frequency, extent, or duration of the vacancies.
(G) Lack of ventilation, light, or sanitary
facilities. The absence of adequate ventilation for
light or air circulation in spaces or rooms without
windows, or that require the removal of dust, odor,
gas, smoke, or other noxious airborne materials.
Inadequate natural light and ventilation means the
absence of skylights or windows for interior spaces or
rooms and improper window sizes and amounts by room
area to window area ratios. Inadequate sanitary
facilities refers to the absence or inadequacy of
garbage storage and enclosure, bathroom facilities,

hot water and kitchens, and structural inadequacies
preventing ingress and egress to and from all rooms
and units within a building.
(H) Inadequate utilities. Underground and overhead
utilities such as storm sewers and storm drainage,
sanitary sewers, water lines, and gas, telephone, and
electrical services that are shown to be inadequate.
Inadequate utilities are those that are: (i) of
insufficient capacity to serve the uses in the
redevelopment project area, (ii) deteriorated,
antiquated, obsolete, or in disrepair, or (iii)
lacking within the redevelopment project area.
(I) Excessive land coverage and overcrowding of
structures and community facilities. The
over-intensive use of property and the crowding of
buildings and accessory facilities onto a site.
Examples of problem conditions warranting the
designation of an area as one exhibiting excessive
land coverage are: (i) the presence of buildings
either improperly situated on parcels or located on
parcels of inadequate size and shape in relation to
present-day standards of development for health and
safety and (ii) the presence of multiple buildings on
a single parcel. For there to be a finding of excessive
land coverage, these parcels must exhibit one or more
of the following conditions: insufficient provision

for light and air within or around buildings,
increased threat of spread of fire due to the close
proximity of buildings, lack of adequate or proper
access to a public right-of-way, lack of reasonably
required off-street parking, or inadequate provision
for loading and service.
(J) Deleterious land use or layout. The existence
of incompatible land-use relationships, buildings
occupied by inappropriate mixed-uses, or uses
considered to be noxious, offensive, or unsuitable for
the surrounding area.
(K) Environmental clean-up. The proposed
redevelopment project area has incurred Illinois
Environmental Protection Agency or United States
Environmental Protection Agency remediation costs for,
or a study conducted by an independent consultant
recognized as having expertise in environmental
remediation has determined a need for, the clean-up of
hazardous waste, hazardous substances, or underground
storage tanks required by State or federal law,
provided that the remediation costs constitute a
material impediment to the development or
redevelopment of the redevelopment project area.
(L) Lack of community planning. The proposed
redevelopment project area was developed prior to or
without the benefit or guidance of a community plan.

This means that the development occurred prior to the
adoption by the municipality of a comprehensive or
other community plan or that the plan was not followed
at the time of the area's development. This factor
must be documented by evidence of adverse or
incompatible land-use relationships, inadequate street
layout, improper subdivision, parcels of inadequate
shape and size to meet contemporary development
standards, or other evidence demonstrating an absence
of effective community planning.
(M) The total equalized assessed value of the
proposed redevelopment project area has declined for 3
of the last 5 calendar years prior to the year in which
the redevelopment project area is designated or is
increasing at an annual rate that is less than the
balance of the municipality for 3 of the last 5
calendar years for which information is available or
is increasing at an annual rate that is less than the
Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers published
by the United States Department of Labor or successor
agency for 3 of the last 5 calendar years prior to the
year in which the redevelopment project area is
designated.
(2) If vacant, the sound growth of the redevelopment
project area is impaired by a combination of 2 or more of
the following factors, each of which is (i) present, with

that presence documented, to a meaningful extent so that a
municipality may reasonably find that the factor is
clearly present within the intent of the Act and (ii)
reasonably distributed throughout the vacant part of the
redevelopment project area to which it pertains:
(A) Obsolete platting of vacant land that results
in parcels of limited or narrow size or configurations
of parcels of irregular size or shape that would be
difficult to develop on a planned basis and in a manner
compatible with contemporary standards and
requirements, or platting that failed to create
rights-of-ways for streets or alleys or that created
inadequate right-of-way widths for streets, alleys, or
other public rights-of-way or that omitted easements
for public utilities.
(B) Diversity of ownership of parcels of vacant
land sufficient in number to retard or impede the
ability to assemble the land for development.
(C) Tax and special assessment delinquencies exist
or the property has been the subject of tax sales under
the Property Tax Code within the last 5 years.
(D) Deterioration of structures or site
improvements in neighboring areas adjacent to the
vacant land.
(E) The area has incurred Illinois Environmental
Protection Agency or United States Environmental

Protection Agency remediation costs for, or a study
conducted by an independent consultant recognized as
having expertise in environmental remediation has
determined a need for, the clean-up of hazardous
waste, hazardous substances, or underground storage
tanks required by State or federal law, provided that
the remediation costs constitute a material impediment
to the development or redevelopment of the
redevelopment project area.
(F) The total equalized assessed value of the
proposed redevelopment project area has declined for 3
of the last 5 calendar years prior to the year in which
the redevelopment project area is designated or is
increasing at an annual rate that is less than the
balance of the municipality for 3 of the last 5
calendar years for which information is available or
is increasing at an annual rate that is less than the
Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers published
by the United States Department of Labor or successor
agency for 3 of the last 5 calendar years prior to the
year in which the redevelopment project area is
designated.
(3) If vacant, the sound growth of the redevelopment
project area is impaired by one of the following factors
that (i) is present, with that presence documented, to a
meaningful extent so that a municipality may reasonably

find that the factor is clearly present within the intent
of the Act and (ii) is reasonably distributed throughout
the vacant part of the redevelopment project area to which
it pertains:
(A) The area consists of one or more unused
quarries, mines, or strip mine ponds.
(B) The area consists of unused rail yards, rail
tracks, or railroad rights-of-way.
(C) The area, prior to its designation, is subject
to (i) chronic flooding that adversely impacts on real
property in the area as certified by a registered
professional engineer or appropriate regulatory agency
or (ii) surface water that discharges from all or a
part of the area and contributes to flooding within
the same watershed, but only if the redevelopment
project provides for facilities or improvements to
contribute to the alleviation of all or part of the
flooding.
(D) The area consists of an unused or illegal
disposal site containing earth, stone, building
debris, or similar materials that were removed from
construction, demolition, excavation, or dredge sites.
(E) Prior to November 1, 1999, the area is not less
than 50 nor more than 100 acres and 75% of which is
vacant (notwithstanding that the area has been used
for commercial agricultural purposes within 5 years

prior to the designation of the redevelopment project
area), and the area meets at least one of the factors
itemized in paragraph (1) of this subsection, the area
has been designated as a town or village center by
ordinance or comprehensive plan adopted prior to
January 1, 1982, and the area has not been developed
for that designated purpose.
(F) The area qualified as a blighted improved area
immediately prior to becoming vacant, unless there has
been substantial private investment in the immediately
surrounding area.
(b) For any redevelopment project area that has been
designated pursuant to this Section by an ordinance adopted
prior to November 1, 1999 (the effective date of Public Act
91-478), "conservation area" shall have the meaning set forth
in this Section prior to that date.
On and after November 1, 1999, "conservation area" means
any improved area within the boundaries of a redevelopment
project area located within the territorial limits of the
municipality in which 50% or more of the structures in the area
have an age of 35 years or more. Such an area is not yet a
blighted area but because of a combination of 3 or more of the
following factors is detrimental to the public safety, health,
morals or welfare and such an area may become a blighted area:
(1) Dilapidation. An advanced state of disrepair or
neglect of necessary repairs to the primary structural

components of buildings or improvements in such a
combination that a documented building condition analysis
determines that major repair is required or the defects
are so serious and so extensive that the buildings must be
removed.
(2) Obsolescence. The condition or process of falling
into disuse. Structures have become ill-suited for the
original use.
(3) Deterioration. With respect to buildings, defects
including, but not limited to, major defects in the
secondary building components such as doors, windows,
porches, gutters and downspouts, and fascia. With respect
to surface improvements, that the condition of roadways,
alleys, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, off-street parking, and
surface storage areas evidence deterioration, including,
but not limited to, surface cracking, crumbling, potholes,
depressions, loose paving material, and weeds protruding
through paved surfaces.
(4) Presence of structures below minimum code
standards. All structures that do not meet the standards
of zoning, subdivision, building, fire, and other
governmental codes applicable to property, but not
including housing and property maintenance codes.
(5) Illegal use of individual structures. The use of
structures in violation of applicable federal, State, or
local laws, exclusive of those applicable to the presence

of structures below minimum code standards.
(6) Excessive vacancies. The presence of buildings
that are unoccupied or under-utilized and that represent
an adverse influence on the area because of the frequency,
extent, or duration of the vacancies.
(7) Lack of ventilation, light, or sanitary
facilities. The absence of adequate ventilation for light
or air circulation in spaces or rooms without windows, or
that require the removal of dust, odor, gas, smoke, or
other noxious airborne materials. Inadequate natural light
and ventilation means the absence or inadequacy of
skylights or windows for interior spaces or rooms and
improper window sizes and amounts by room area to window
area ratios. Inadequate sanitary facilities refers to the
absence or inadequacy of garbage storage and enclosure,
bathroom facilities, hot water and kitchens, and
structural inadequacies preventing ingress and egress to
and from all rooms and units within a building.
(8) Inadequate utilities. Underground and overhead
utilities such as storm sewers and storm drainage,
sanitary sewers, water lines, and gas, telephone, and
electrical services that are shown to be inadequate.
Inadequate utilities are those that are: (i) of
insufficient capacity to serve the uses in the
redevelopment project area, (ii) deteriorated, antiquated,
obsolete, or in disrepair, or (iii) lacking within the

redevelopment project area.
(9) Excessive land coverage and overcrowding of
structures and community facilities. The over-intensive
use of property and the crowding of buildings and
accessory facilities onto a site. Examples of problem
conditions warranting the designation of an area as one
exhibiting excessive land coverage are: the presence of
buildings either improperly situated on parcels or located
on parcels of inadequate size and shape in relation to
present-day standards of development for health and safety
and the presence of multiple buildings on a single parcel.
For there to be a finding of excessive land coverage,
these parcels must exhibit one or more of the following
conditions: insufficient provision for light and air
within or around buildings, increased threat of spread of
fire due to the close proximity of buildings, lack of
adequate or proper access to a public right-of-way, lack
of reasonably required off-street parking, or inadequate
provision for loading and service.
(10) Deleterious land use or layout. The existence of
incompatible land-use relationships, buildings occupied by
inappropriate mixed-uses, or uses considered to be
noxious, offensive, or unsuitable for the surrounding
area.
(11) Lack of community planning. The proposed
redevelopment project area was developed prior to or

without the benefit or guidance of a community plan. This
means that the development occurred prior to the adoption
by the municipality of a comprehensive or other community
plan or that the plan was not followed at the time of the
area's development. This factor must be documented by
evidence of adverse or incompatible land-use
relationships, inadequate street layout, improper
subdivision, parcels of inadequate shape and size to meet
contemporary development standards, or other evidence
demonstrating an absence of effective community planning.
(12) The area has incurred Illinois Environmental
Protection Agency or United States Environmental
Protection Agency remediation costs for, or a study
conducted by an independent consultant recognized as
having expertise in environmental remediation has
determined a need for, the clean-up of hazardous waste,
hazardous substances, or underground storage tanks
required by State or federal law, provided that the
remediation costs constitute a material impediment to the
development or redevelopment of the redevelopment project
area.
(13) The total equalized assessed value of the
proposed redevelopment project area has declined for 3 of
the last 5 calendar years for which information is
available or is increasing at an annual rate that is less
than the balance of the municipality for 3 of the last 5

calendar years for which information is available or is
increasing at an annual rate that is less than the
Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers published by
the United States Department of Labor or successor agency
for 3 of the last 5 calendar years for which information is
available.
(c) "Industrial park" means an area in a blighted or
conservation area suitable for use by any manufacturing,
industrial, research or transportation enterprise, of
facilities to include but not be limited to factories, mills,
processing plants, assembly plants, packing plants,
fabricating plants, industrial distribution centers,
warehouses, repair overhaul or service facilities, freight
terminals, research facilities, test facilities or railroad
facilities.
(d) "Industrial park conservation area" means an area
within the boundaries of a redevelopment project area located
within the territorial limits of a municipality that is a
labor surplus municipality or within 1 1/2 miles of the
territorial limits of a municipality that is a labor surplus
municipality if the area is annexed to the municipality; which
area is zoned as industrial no later than at the time the
municipality by ordinance designates the redevelopment project
area, and which area includes both vacant land suitable for
use as an industrial park and a blighted area or conservation
area contiguous to such vacant land.

(e) "Labor surplus municipality" means a municipality in
which, at any time during the 6 months before the municipality
by ordinance designates an industrial park conservation area,
the unemployment rate was over 6% and was also 100% or more of
the national average unemployment rate for that same time as
published in the United States Department of Labor Bureau of
Labor Statistics publication entitled "The Employment
Situation" or its successor publication. For the purpose of
this subsection, if unemployment rate statistics for the
municipality are not available, the unemployment rate in the
municipality shall be deemed to be the same as the
unemployment rate in the principal county in which the
municipality is located.
(f) "Municipality" shall mean a city, village,
incorporated town, or a township that is located in the
unincorporated portion of a county with 3 million or more
inhabitants, if the county adopted an ordinance that approved
the township's redevelopment plan.
(g) "Initial Sales Tax Amounts" means the amount of taxes
paid under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, Use Tax Act,
Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, the
Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, and the Municipal
Service Occupation Tax Act by retailers and servicemen on
transactions at places located in a State Sales Tax Boundary
during the calendar year 1985.
(g-1) "Revised Initial Sales Tax Amounts" means the amount

of taxes paid under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, Use Tax
Act, Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, the
Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, and the Municipal
Service Occupation Tax Act by retailers and servicemen on
transactions at places located within the State Sales Tax
Boundary revised pursuant to Section 11-74.4-8a(9) of this
Act.
(h) "Municipal Sales Tax Increment" means an amount equal
to the increase in the aggregate amount of taxes paid to a
municipality from the Local Government Tax Fund arising from
sales by retailers and servicemen within the redevelopment
project area or State Sales Tax Boundary, as the case may be,
for as long as the redevelopment project area or State Sales
Tax Boundary, as the case may be, exist over and above the
aggregate amount of taxes as certified by the Illinois
Department of Revenue and paid under the Municipal Retailers'
Occupation Tax Act and the Municipal Service Occupation Tax
Act by retailers and servicemen, on transactions at places of
business located in the redevelopment project area or State
Sales Tax Boundary, as the case may be, during the base year
which shall be the calendar year immediately prior to the year
in which the municipality adopted tax increment allocation
financing. For purposes of computing the aggregate amount of
such taxes for base years occurring prior to 1985, the
Department of Revenue shall determine the Initial Sales Tax
Amounts for such taxes and deduct therefrom an amount equal to

4% of the aggregate amount of taxes per year for each year the
base year is prior to 1985, but not to exceed a total deduction
of 12%. The amount so determined shall be known as the
"Adjusted Initial Sales Tax Amounts". For purposes of
determining the Municipal Sales Tax Increment, the Department
of Revenue shall for each period subtract from the amount paid
to the municipality from the Local Government Tax Fund arising
from sales by retailers and servicemen on transactions located
in the redevelopment project area or the State Sales Tax
Boundary, as the case may be, the certified Initial Sales Tax
Amounts, the Adjusted Initial Sales Tax Amounts or the Revised
Initial Sales Tax Amounts for the Municipal Retailers'
Occupation Tax Act and the Municipal Service Occupation Tax
Act. For the State Fiscal Year 1989, this calculation shall be
made by utilizing the calendar year 1987 to determine the tax
amounts received. For the State Fiscal Year 1990, this
calculation shall be made by utilizing the period from January
1, 1988, until September 30, 1988, to determine the tax
amounts received from retailers and servicemen pursuant to the
Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax and the Municipal Service
Occupation Tax Act, which shall have deducted therefrom
nine-twelfths of the certified Initial Sales Tax Amounts, the
Adjusted Initial Sales Tax Amounts or the Revised Initial
Sales Tax Amounts as appropriate. For the State Fiscal Year
1991, this calculation shall be made by utilizing the period
from October 1, 1988, to June 30, 1989, to determine the tax

amounts received from retailers and servicemen pursuant to the
Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax and the Municipal Service
Occupation Tax Act which shall have deducted therefrom
nine-twelfths of the certified Initial Sales Tax Amounts,
Adjusted Initial Sales Tax Amounts or the Revised Initial
Sales Tax Amounts as appropriate. For every State Fiscal Year
thereafter, the applicable period shall be the 12 months
beginning July 1 and ending June 30 to determine the tax
amounts received which shall have deducted therefrom the
certified Initial Sales Tax Amounts, the Adjusted Initial
Sales Tax Amounts or the Revised Initial Sales Tax Amounts, as
the case may be.
(i) "Net State Sales Tax Increment" means the sum of the
following: (a) 80% of the first $100,000 of State Sales Tax
Increment annually generated within a State Sales Tax
Boundary; (b) 60% of the amount in excess of $100,000 but not
exceeding $500,000 of State Sales Tax Increment annually
generated within a State Sales Tax Boundary; and (c) 40% of all
amounts in excess of $500,000 of State Sales Tax Increment
annually generated within a State Sales Tax Boundary. If,
however, a municipality established a tax increment financing
district in a county with a population in excess of 3,000,000
before January 1, 1986, and the municipality entered into a
contract or issued bonds after January 1, 1986, but before
December 31, 1986, to finance redevelopment project costs
within a State Sales Tax Boundary, then the Net State Sales Tax

Increment means, for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 1990,
and July 1, 1991, 100% of the State Sales Tax Increment
annually generated within a State Sales Tax Boundary; and
notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, for those
fiscal years the Department of Revenue shall distribute to
those municipalities 100% of their Net State Sales Tax
Increment before any distribution to any other municipality
and regardless of whether or not those other municipalities
will receive 100% of their Net State Sales Tax Increment. For
Fiscal Year 1999, and every year thereafter until the year
2007, for any municipality that has not entered into a
contract or has not issued bonds prior to June 1, 1988 to
finance redevelopment project costs within a State Sales Tax
Boundary, the Net State Sales Tax Increment shall be
calculated as follows: By multiplying the Net State Sales Tax
Increment by 90% in the State Fiscal Year 1999; 80% in the
State Fiscal Year 2000; 70% in the State Fiscal Year 2001; 60%
in the State Fiscal Year 2002; 50% in the State Fiscal Year
2003; 40% in the State Fiscal Year 2004; 30% in the State
Fiscal Year 2005; 20% in the State Fiscal Year 2006; and 10% in
the State Fiscal Year 2007. No payment shall be made for State
Fiscal Year 2008 and thereafter.
Municipalities that issued bonds in connection with a
redevelopment project in a redevelopment project area within
the State Sales Tax Boundary prior to July 29, 1991, or that
entered into contracts in connection with a redevelopment

project in a redevelopment project area before June 1, 1988,
shall continue to receive their proportional share of the
Illinois Tax Increment Fund distribution until the date on
which the redevelopment project is completed or terminated.
If, however, a municipality that issued bonds in connection
with a redevelopment project in a redevelopment project area
within the State Sales Tax Boundary prior to July 29, 1991
retires the bonds prior to June 30, 2007 or a municipality that
entered into contracts in connection with a redevelopment
project in a redevelopment project area before June 1, 1988
completes the contracts prior to June 30, 2007, then so long as
the redevelopment project is not completed or is not
terminated, the Net State Sales Tax Increment shall be
calculated, beginning on the date on which the bonds are
retired or the contracts are completed, as follows: By
multiplying the Net State Sales Tax Increment by 60% in the
State Fiscal Year 2002; 50% in the State Fiscal Year 2003; 40%
in the State Fiscal Year 2004; 30% in the State Fiscal Year
2005; 20% in the State Fiscal Year 2006; and 10% in the State
Fiscal Year 2007. No payment shall be made for State Fiscal
Year 2008 and thereafter. Refunding of any bonds issued prior
to July 29, 1991, shall not alter the Net State Sales Tax
Increment.
(j) "State Utility Tax Increment Amount" means an amount
equal to the aggregate increase in State electric and gas tax
charges imposed on owners and tenants, other than residential

customers, of properties located within the redevelopment
project area under Section 9-222 of the Public Utilities Act,
over and above the aggregate of such charges as certified by
the Department of Revenue and paid by owners and tenants,
other than residential customers, of properties within the
redevelopment project area during the base year, which shall
be the calendar year immediately prior to the year of the
adoption of the ordinance authorizing tax increment allocation
financing.
(k) "Net State Utility Tax Increment" means the sum of the
following: (a) 80% of the first $100,000 of State Utility Tax
Increment annually generated by a redevelopment project area;
(b) 60% of the amount in excess of $100,000 but not exceeding
$500,000 of the State Utility Tax Increment annually generated
by a redevelopment project area; and (c) 40% of all amounts in
excess of $500,000 of State Utility Tax Increment annually
generated by a redevelopment project area. For the State
Fiscal Year 1999, and every year thereafter until the year
2007, for any municipality that has not entered into a
contract or has not issued bonds prior to June 1, 1988 to
finance redevelopment project costs within a redevelopment
project area, the Net State Utility Tax Increment shall be
calculated as follows: By multiplying the Net State Utility
Tax Increment by 90% in the State Fiscal Year 1999; 80% in the
State Fiscal Year 2000; 70% in the State Fiscal Year 2001; 60%
in the State Fiscal Year 2002; 50% in the State Fiscal Year

2003; 40% in the State Fiscal Year 2004; 30% in the State
Fiscal Year 2005; 20% in the State Fiscal Year 2006; and 10% in
the State Fiscal Year 2007. No payment shall be made for the
State Fiscal Year 2008 and thereafter.
Municipalities that issue bonds in connection with the
redevelopment project during the period from June 1, 1988
until 3 years after the effective date of this Amendatory Act
of 1988 shall receive the Net State Utility Tax Increment,
subject to appropriation, for 15 State Fiscal Years after the
issuance of such bonds. For the 16th through the 20th State
Fiscal Years after issuance of the bonds, the Net State
Utility Tax Increment shall be calculated as follows: By
multiplying the Net State Utility Tax Increment by 90% in year
16; 80% in year 17; 70% in year 18; 60% in year 19; and 50% in
year 20. Refunding of any bonds issued prior to June 1, 1988,
shall not alter the revised Net State Utility Tax Increment
payments set forth above.
(l) "Obligations" mean bonds, loans, debentures, notes,
special certificates or other evidence of indebtedness issued
by the municipality to carry out a redevelopment project or to
refund outstanding obligations.
(m) "Payment in lieu of taxes" means those estimated tax
revenues from real property in a redevelopment project area
derived from real property that has been acquired by a
municipality which according to the redevelopment project or
plan is to be used for a private use which taxing districts

would have received had a municipality not acquired the real
property and adopted tax increment allocation financing and
which would result from levies made after the time of the
adoption of tax increment allocation financing to the time the
current equalized value of real property in the redevelopment
project area exceeds the total initial equalized value of real
property in said area.
(n) "Redevelopment plan" means the comprehensive program
of the municipality for development or redevelopment intended
by the payment of redevelopment project costs to reduce or
eliminate those conditions the existence of which qualified
the redevelopment project area as a "blighted area" or
"conservation area" or combination thereof or "industrial park
conservation area," and thereby to enhance the tax bases of
the taxing districts which extend into the redevelopment
project area, provided that, with respect to redevelopment
project areas described in subsections (p-1) and (p-2),
"redevelopment plan" means the comprehensive program of the
affected municipality for the development of qualifying
transit facilities. On and after November 1, 1999 (the
effective date of Public Act 91-478), no redevelopment plan
may be approved or amended that includes the development of
vacant land (i) with a golf course and related clubhouse and
other facilities or (ii) designated by federal, State, county,
or municipal government as public land for outdoor
recreational activities or for nature preserves and used for

that purpose within 5 years prior to the adoption of the
redevelopment plan. For the purpose of this subsection,
"recreational activities" is limited to mean camping and
hunting. Each redevelopment plan shall set forth in writing
the program to be undertaken to accomplish the objectives and
shall include but not be limited to:
(A) an itemized list of estimated redevelopment
project costs;
(B) evidence indicating that the redevelopment project
area on the whole has not been subject to growth and
development through investment by private enterprise,
provided that such evidence shall not be required for any
redevelopment project area located within a transit
facility improvement area established pursuant to Section
11-74.4-3.3;
(C) an assessment of any financial impact of the
redevelopment project area on or any increased demand for
services from any taxing district affected by the plan and
any program to address such financial impact or increased
demand;
(D) the sources of funds to pay costs;
(E) the nature and term of the obligations to be
issued;
(F) the most recent equalized assessed valuation of
the redevelopment project area;
(G) an estimate as to the equalized assessed valuation

after redevelopment and the general land uses to apply in
the redevelopment project area;
(H) a commitment to fair employment practices and an
affirmative action plan;
(I) if it concerns an industrial park conservation
area, the plan shall also include a general description of
any proposed developer, user and tenant of any property, a
description of the type, structure and general character
of the facilities to be developed, a description of the
type, class and number of new employees to be employed in
the operation of the facilities to be developed; and
(J) if property is to be annexed to the municipality,
the plan shall include the terms of the annexation
agreement.
The provisions of items (B) and (C) of this subsection (n)
shall not apply to a municipality that before March 14, 1994
(the effective date of Public Act 88-537) had fixed, either by
its corporate authorities or by a commission designated under
subsection (k) of Section 11-74.4-4, a time and place for a
public hearing as required by subsection (a) of Section
11-74.4-5. No redevelopment plan shall be adopted unless a
municipality complies with all of the following requirements:
(1) The municipality finds that the redevelopment
project area on the whole has not been subject to growth
and development through investment by private enterprise
and would not reasonably be anticipated to be developed

without the adoption of the redevelopment plan, provided,
however, that such a finding shall not be required with
respect to any redevelopment project area located within a
transit facility improvement area established pursuant to
Section 11-74.4-3.3.
(2) The municipality finds that the redevelopment plan
and project conform to the comprehensive plan for the
development of the municipality as a whole, or, for
municipalities with a population of 100,000 or more,
regardless of when the redevelopment plan and project was
adopted, the redevelopment plan and project either: (i)
conforms to the strategic economic development or
redevelopment plan issued by the designated planning
authority of the municipality, or (ii) includes land uses
that have been approved by the planning commission of the
municipality.
(3) The redevelopment plan establishes the estimated
dates of completion of the redevelopment project and
retirement of obligations issued to finance redevelopment
project costs. Those dates may not be later than the dates
set forth under Section 11-74.4-3.5.
A municipality may by municipal ordinance amend an
existing redevelopment plan to conform to this paragraph
(3) as amended by Public Act 91-478, which municipal
ordinance may be adopted without further hearing or notice
and without complying with the procedures provided in this

Act pertaining to an amendment to or the initial approval
of a redevelopment plan and project and designation of a
redevelopment project area.
(3.5) The municipality finds, in the case of an
industrial park conservation area, also that the
municipality is a labor surplus municipality and that the
implementation of the redevelopment plan will reduce
unemployment, create new jobs and by the provision of new
facilities enhance the tax base of the taxing districts
that extend into the redevelopment project area.
(4) If any incremental revenues are being utilized
under Section 8(a)(1) or 8(a)(2) of this Act in
redevelopment project areas approved by ordinance after
January 1, 1986, the municipality finds: (a) that the
redevelopment project area would not reasonably be
developed without the use of such incremental revenues,
and (b) that such incremental revenues will be exclusively
utilized for the development of the redevelopment project
area.
(5) If: (a) the redevelopment plan will not result in
displacement of residents from 10 or more inhabited
residential units, and the municipality certifies in the
plan that such displacement will not result from the plan;
or (b) the redevelopment plan is for a redevelopment
project area or a qualifying transit facility located
within a transit facility improvement area established

pursuant to Section 11-74.4-3.3, and the applicable
project is subject to the process for evaluation of
environmental effects under the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., then a housing
impact study need not be performed. If, however, the
redevelopment plan would result in the displacement of
residents from 10 or more inhabited residential units, or
if the redevelopment project area contains 75 or more
inhabited residential units and no certification is made,
then the municipality shall prepare, as part of the
separate feasibility report required by subsection (a) of
Section 11-74.4-5, a housing impact study.
Part I of the housing impact study shall include (i)
data as to whether the residential units are single family
or multi-family units, (ii) the number and type of rooms
within the units, if that information is available, (iii)
whether the units are inhabited or uninhabited, as
determined not less than 45 days before the date that the
ordinance or resolution required by subsection (a) of
Section 11-74.4-5 is passed, and (iv) data as to the
racial and ethnic composition of the residents in the
inhabited residential units. The data requirement as to
the racial and ethnic composition of the residents in the
inhabited residential units shall be deemed to be fully
satisfied by data from the most recent federal census.
Part II of the housing impact study shall identify the

inhabited residential units in the proposed redevelopment
project area that are to be or may be removed. If inhabited
residential units are to be removed, then the housing
impact study shall identify (i) the number and location of
those units that will or may be removed, (ii) the
municipality's plans for relocation assistance for those
residents in the proposed redevelopment project area whose
residences are to be removed, (iii) the availability of
replacement housing for those residents whose residences
are to be removed, and shall identify the type, location,
and cost of the housing, and (iv) the type and extent of
relocation assistance to be provided.
(6) On and after November 1, 1999, the housing impact
study required by paragraph (5) shall be incorporated in
the redevelopment plan for the redevelopment project area.
(7) On and after November 1, 1999, no redevelopment
plan shall be adopted, nor an existing plan amended, nor
shall residential housing that is occupied by households
of low-income and very low-income persons in currently
existing redevelopment project areas be removed after
November 1, 1999 unless the redevelopment plan provides,
with respect to inhabited housing units that are to be
removed for households of low-income and very low-income
persons, affordable housing and relocation assistance not
less than that which would be provided under the federal
Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property

Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 and the regulations under
that Act, including the eligibility criteria. Affordable
housing may be either existing or newly constructed
housing. For purposes of this paragraph (7), "low-income
households", "very low-income households", and "affordable
housing" have the meanings set forth in the Illinois
Affordable Housing Act. The municipality shall make a good
faith effort to ensure that this affordable housing is
located in or near the redevelopment project area within
the municipality.
(8) On and after November 1, 1999, if, after the
adoption of the redevelopment plan for the redevelopment
project area, any municipality desires to amend its
redevelopment plan to remove more inhabited residential
units than specified in its original redevelopment plan,
that change shall be made in accordance with the
procedures in subsection (c) of Section 11-74.4-5.
(9) For redevelopment project areas designated prior
to November 1, 1999, the redevelopment plan may be amended
without further joint review board meeting or hearing,
provided that the municipality shall give notice of any
such changes by mail to each affected taxing district and
registrant on the interested party registry, to authorize
the municipality to expend tax increment revenues for
redevelopment project costs defined by paragraphs (5) and
(7.5), subparagraphs (E) and (F) of paragraph (11), and

paragraph (11.5) of subsection (q) of Section 11-74.4-3,
so long as the changes do not increase the total estimated
redevelopment project costs set out in the redevelopment
plan by more than 5% after adjustment for inflation from
the date the plan was adopted.
(o) "Redevelopment project" means any public and private
development project in furtherance of the objectives of a
redevelopment plan. On and after November 1, 1999 (the
effective date of Public Act 91-478), no redevelopment plan
may be approved or amended that includes the development of
vacant land (i) with a golf course and related clubhouse and
other facilities or (ii) designated by federal, State, county,
or municipal government as public land for outdoor
recreational activities or for nature preserves and used for
that purpose within 5 years prior to the adoption of the
redevelopment plan. For the purpose of this subsection,
"recreational activities" is limited to mean camping and
hunting.
(p) "Redevelopment project area" means an area designated
by the municipality, which is not less in the aggregate than 1
1/2 acres and in respect to which the municipality has made a
finding that there exist conditions which cause the area to be
classified as an industrial park conservation area or a
blighted area or a conservation area, or a combination of both
blighted areas and conservation areas.
(p-1) Notwithstanding any provision of this Act to the

contrary, on and after August 25, 2009 (the effective date of
Public Act 96-680), a redevelopment project area may include
areas within a one-half mile radius of an existing or proposed
Regional Transportation Authority Suburban Transit Access
Route (STAR Line) station without a finding that the area is
classified as an industrial park conservation area, a blighted
area, a conservation area, or a combination thereof, but only
if the municipality receives unanimous consent from the joint
review board created to review the proposed redevelopment
project area.
(p-2) Notwithstanding any provision of this Act to the
contrary, on and after the effective date of this amendatory
Act of the 99th General Assembly, a redevelopment project area
may include areas within a transit facility improvement area
that has been established pursuant to Section 11-74.4-3.3
without a finding that the area is classified as an industrial
park conservation area, a blighted area, a conservation area,
or any combination thereof.
(q) "Redevelopment project costs", except for
redevelopment project areas created pursuant to subsection
(p-1) or (p-2), means and includes the sum total of all
reasonable or necessary costs incurred or estimated to be
incurred, and any such costs incidental to a redevelopment
plan and a redevelopment project. Such costs include, without
limitation, the following:
(1) Costs of studies, surveys, development of plans,

and specifications, implementation and administration of
the redevelopment plan including but not limited to staff
and professional service costs for architectural,
engineering, legal, financial, planning or other services,
provided however that no charges for professional services
may be based on a percentage of the tax increment
collected; except that on and after November 1, 1999 (the
effective date of Public Act 91-478), no contracts for
professional services, excluding architectural and
engineering services, may be entered into if the terms of
the contract extend beyond a period of 3 years. In
addition, "redevelopment project costs" shall not include
lobbying expenses. After consultation with the
municipality, each tax increment consultant or advisor to
a municipality that plans to designate or has designated a
redevelopment project area shall inform the municipality
in writing of any contracts that the consultant or advisor
has entered into with entities or individuals that have
received, or are receiving, payments financed by tax
increment revenues produced by the redevelopment project
area with respect to which the consultant or advisor has
performed, or will be performing, service for the
municipality. This requirement shall be satisfied by the
consultant or advisor before the commencement of services
for the municipality and thereafter whenever any other
contracts with those individuals or entities are executed

by the consultant or advisor;
(1.5) After July 1, 1999, annual administrative costs
shall not include general overhead or administrative costs
of the municipality that would still have been incurred by
the municipality if the municipality had not designated a
redevelopment project area or approved a redevelopment
plan;
(1.6) The cost of marketing sites within the
redevelopment project area to prospective businesses,
developers, and investors;
(2) Property assembly costs, including but not limited
to acquisition of land and other property, real or
personal, or rights or interests therein, demolition of
buildings, site preparation, site improvements that serve
as an engineered barrier addressing ground level or below
ground environmental contamination, including, but not
limited to parking lots and other concrete or asphalt
barriers, and the clearing and grading of land;
(3) Costs of rehabilitation, reconstruction or repair
or remodeling of existing public or private buildings,
fixtures, and leasehold improvements; and the cost of
replacing an existing public building if pursuant to the
implementation of a redevelopment project the existing
public building is to be demolished to use the site for
private investment or devoted to a different use requiring
private investment; including any direct or indirect costs

relating to Green Globes or LEED certified construction
elements or construction elements with an equivalent
certification;
(4) Costs of the construction of public works or
improvements, including any direct or indirect costs
relating to Green Globes or LEED certified construction
elements or construction elements with an equivalent
certification, except that on and after November 1, 1999,
redevelopment project costs shall not include the cost of
constructing a new municipal public building principally
used to provide offices, storage space, or conference
facilities or vehicle storage, maintenance, or repair for
administrative, public safety, or public works personnel
and that is not intended to replace an existing public
building as provided under paragraph (3) of subsection (q)
of Section 11-74.4-3 unless either (i) the construction of
the new municipal building implements a redevelopment
project that was included in a redevelopment plan that was
adopted by the municipality prior to November 1, 1999,
(ii) the municipality makes a reasonable determination in
the redevelopment plan, supported by information that
provides the basis for that determination, that the new
municipal building is required to meet an increase in the
need for public safety purposes anticipated to result from
the implementation of the redevelopment plan, or (iii) the
new municipal public building is for the storage,

maintenance, or repair of transit vehicles and is located
in a transit facility improvement area that has been
established pursuant to Section 11-74.4-3.3;
(5) Costs of job training and retraining projects,
including the cost of "welfare to work" programs
implemented by businesses located within the redevelopment
project area;
(6) Financing costs, including but not limited to all
necessary and incidental expenses related to the issuance
of obligations and which may include payment of interest
on any obligations issued hereunder including interest
accruing during the estimated period of construction of
any redevelopment project for which such obligations are
issued and for not exceeding 36 months thereafter and
including reasonable reserves related thereto;
(7) To the extent the municipality by written
agreement accepts and approves the same, all or a portion
of a taxing district's capital costs resulting from the
redevelopment project necessarily incurred or to be
incurred within a taxing district in furtherance of the
objectives of the redevelopment plan and project;
(7.5) For redevelopment project areas designated (or
redevelopment project areas amended to add or increase the
number of tax-increment-financing assisted housing units)
on or after November 1, 1999, an elementary, secondary, or
unit school district's increased costs attributable to

assisted housing units located within the redevelopment
project area for which the developer or redeveloper
receives financial assistance through an agreement with
the municipality or because the municipality incurs the
cost of necessary infrastructure improvements within the
boundaries of the assisted housing sites necessary for the
completion of that housing as authorized by this Act, and
which costs shall be paid by the municipality from the
Special Tax Allocation Fund when the tax increment revenue
is received as a result of the assisted housing units and
shall be calculated annually as follows:
(A) for foundation districts, excluding any school
district in a municipality with a population in excess
of 1,000,000, by multiplying the district's increase
in attendance resulting from the net increase in new
students enrolled in that school district who reside
in housing units within the redevelopment project area
that have received financial assistance through an
agreement with the municipality or because the
municipality incurs the cost of necessary
infrastructure improvements within the boundaries of
the housing sites necessary for the completion of that
housing as authorized by this Act since the
designation of the redevelopment project area by the
most recently available per capita tuition cost as
defined in Section 10-20.12a of the School Code less

any increase in general State aid as defined in
Section 18-8.05 of the School Code or evidence-based
funding as defined in Section 18-8.15 of the School
Code attributable to these added new students subject
to the following annual limitations:
(i) for unit school districts with a district
average 1995-96 Per Capita Tuition Charge of less
than $5,900, no more than 25% of the total amount
of property tax increment revenue produced by
those housing units that have received tax
increment finance assistance under this Act;
(ii) for elementary school districts with a
district average 1995-96 Per Capita Tuition Charge
of less than $5,900, no more than 17% of the total
amount of property tax increment revenue produced
by those housing units that have received tax
increment finance assistance under this Act; and
(iii) for secondary school districts with a
district average 1995-96 Per Capita Tuition Charge
of less than $5,900, no more than 8% of the total
amount of property tax increment revenue produced
by those housing units that have received tax
increment finance assistance under this Act.
(B) For alternate method districts, flat grant
districts, and foundation districts with a district
average 1995-96 Per Capita Tuition Charge equal to or

more than $5,900, excluding any school district with a
population in excess of 1,000,000, by multiplying the
district's increase in attendance resulting from the
net increase in new students enrolled in that school
district who reside in housing units within the
redevelopment project area that have received
financial assistance through an agreement with the
municipality or because the municipality incurs the
cost of necessary infrastructure improvements within
the boundaries of the housing sites necessary for the
completion of that housing as authorized by this Act
since the designation of the redevelopment project
area by the most recently available per capita tuition
cost as defined in Section 10-20.12a of the School
Code less any increase in general state aid as defined
in Section 18-8.05 of the School Code or
evidence-based funding as defined in Section 18-8.15
of the School Code attributable to these added new
students subject to the following annual limitations:
(i) for unit school districts, no more than
40% of the total amount of property tax increment
revenue produced by those housing units that have
received tax increment finance assistance under
this Act;
(ii) for elementary school districts, no more
than 27% of the total amount of property tax

increment revenue produced by those housing units
that have received tax increment finance
assistance under this Act; and
(iii) for secondary school districts, no more
than 13% of the total amount of property tax
increment revenue produced by those housing units
that have received tax increment finance
assistance under this Act.
(C) For any school district in a municipality with
a population in excess of 1,000,000, the following
restrictions shall apply to the reimbursement of
increased costs under this paragraph (7.5):
(i) no increased costs shall be reimbursed
unless the school district certifies that each of
the schools affected by the assisted housing
project is at or over its student capacity;
(ii) the amount reimbursable shall be reduced
by the value of any land donated to the school
district by the municipality or developer, and by
the value of any physical improvements made to the
schools by the municipality or developer; and
(iii) the amount reimbursed may not affect
amounts otherwise obligated by the terms of any
bonds, notes, or other funding instruments, or the
terms of any redevelopment agreement.
Any school district seeking payment under this

paragraph (7.5) shall, after July 1 and before
September 30 of each year, provide the municipality
with reasonable evidence to support its claim for
reimbursement before the municipality shall be
required to approve or make the payment to the school
district. If the school district fails to provide the
information during this period in any year, it shall
forfeit any claim to reimbursement for that year.
School districts may adopt a resolution waiving the
right to all or a portion of the reimbursement
otherwise required by this paragraph (7.5). By
acceptance of this reimbursement the school district
waives the right to directly or indirectly set aside,
modify, or contest in any manner the establishment of
the redevelopment project area or projects;
(7.7) For redevelopment project areas designated (or
redevelopment project areas amended to add or increase the
number of tax-increment-financing assisted housing units)
on or after January 1, 2005 (the effective date of Public
Act 93-961), a public library district's increased costs
attributable to assisted housing units located within the
redevelopment project area for which the developer or
redeveloper receives financial assistance through an
agreement with the municipality or because the
municipality incurs the cost of necessary infrastructure
improvements within the boundaries of the assisted housing

sites necessary for the completion of that housing as
authorized by this Act shall be paid to the library
district by the municipality from the Special Tax
Allocation Fund when the tax increment revenue is received
as a result of the assisted housing units. This paragraph
(7.7) applies only if (i) the library district is located
in a county that is subject to the Property Tax Extension
Limitation Law or (ii) the library district is not located
in a county that is subject to the Property Tax Extension
Limitation Law but the district is prohibited by any other
law from increasing its tax levy rate without a prior
voter referendum.
The amount paid to a library district under this
paragraph (7.7) shall be calculated by multiplying (i) the
net increase in the number of persons eligible to obtain a
library card in that district who reside in housing units
within the redevelopment project area that have received
financial assistance through an agreement with the
municipality or because the municipality incurs the cost
of necessary infrastructure improvements within the
boundaries of the housing sites necessary for the
completion of that housing as authorized by this Act since
the designation of the redevelopment project area by (ii)
the per-patron cost of providing library services so long
as it does not exceed $120. The per-patron cost shall be
the Total Operating Expenditures Per Capita for the

library in the previous fiscal year. The municipality may
deduct from the amount that it must pay to a library
district under this paragraph any amount that it has
voluntarily paid to the library district from the tax
increment revenue. The amount paid to a library district
under this paragraph (7.7) shall be no more than 2% of the
amount produced by the assisted housing units and
deposited into the Special Tax Allocation Fund.
A library district is not eligible for any payment
under this paragraph (7.7) unless the library district has
experienced an increase in the number of patrons from the
municipality that created the tax-increment-financing
district since the designation of the redevelopment
project area.
Any library district seeking payment under this
paragraph (7.7) shall, after July 1 and before September
30 of each year, provide the municipality with convincing
evidence to support its claim for reimbursement before the
municipality shall be required to approve or make the
payment to the library district. If the library district
fails to provide the information during this period in any
year, it shall forfeit any claim to reimbursement for that
year. Library districts may adopt a resolution waiving the
right to all or a portion of the reimbursement otherwise
required by this paragraph (7.7). By acceptance of such
reimbursement, the library district shall forfeit any

right to directly or indirectly set aside, modify, or
contest in any manner whatsoever the establishment of the
redevelopment project area or projects;
(8) Relocation costs to the extent that a municipality
determines that relocation costs shall be paid or is
required to make payment of relocation costs by federal or
State law or in order to satisfy subparagraph (7) of
subsection (n);
(9) Payment in lieu of taxes;
(10) Costs of job training, retraining, advanced
vocational education or career education, including but
not limited to courses in occupational, semi-technical or
technical fields leading directly to employment, incurred
by one or more taxing districts, provided that such costs
(i) are related to the establishment and maintenance of
additional job training, advanced vocational education or
career education programs for persons employed or to be
employed by employers located in a redevelopment project
area; and (ii) when incurred by a taxing district or
taxing districts other than the municipality, are set
forth in a written agreement by or among the municipality
and the taxing district or taxing districts, which
agreement describes the program to be undertaken,
including but not limited to the number of employees to be
trained, a description of the training and services to be
provided, the number and type of positions available or to

be available, itemized costs of the program and sources of
funds to pay for the same, and the term of the agreement.
Such costs include, specifically, the payment by community
college districts of costs pursuant to Sections 3-37,
3-38, 3-40 and 3-40.1 of the Public Community College Act
and by school districts of costs pursuant to Sections
10-22.20a and 10-23.3a of the School Code;
(11) Interest cost incurred by a redeveloper related
to the construction, renovation or rehabilitation of a
redevelopment project provided that:
(A) such costs are to be paid directly from the
special tax allocation fund established pursuant to
this Act;
(B) such payments in any one year may not exceed
30% of the annual interest costs incurred by the
redeveloper with regard to the redevelopment project
during that year;
(C) if there are not sufficient funds available in
the special tax allocation fund to make the payment
pursuant to this paragraph (11) then the amounts so
due shall accrue and be payable when sufficient funds
are available in the special tax allocation fund;
(D) the total of such interest payments paid
pursuant to this Act may not exceed 30% of the total
(i) cost paid or incurred by the redeveloper for the
redevelopment project plus (ii) redevelopment project

costs excluding any property assembly costs and any
relocation costs incurred by a municipality pursuant
to this Act;
(E) the cost limits set forth in subparagraphs (B)
and (D) of paragraph (11) shall be modified for the
financing of rehabilitated or new housing units for
low-income households and very low-income households,
as defined in Section 3 of the Illinois Affordable
Housing Act. The percentage of 75% shall be
substituted for 30% in subparagraphs (B) and (D) of
paragraph (11); and
(F) instead of the eligible costs provided by
subparagraphs (B) and (D) of paragraph (11), as
modified by this subparagraph, and notwithstanding any
other provisions of this Act to the contrary, the
municipality may pay from tax increment revenues up to
50% of the cost of construction of new housing units to
be occupied by low-income households and very
low-income households as defined in Section 3 of the
Illinois Affordable Housing Act. The cost of
construction of those units may be derived from the
proceeds of bonds issued by the municipality under
this Act or other constitutional or statutory
authority or from other sources of municipal revenue
that may be reimbursed from tax increment revenues or
the proceeds of bonds issued to finance the

construction of that housing.
The eligible costs provided under this
subparagraph (F) of paragraph (11) shall be an
eligible cost for the construction, renovation, and
rehabilitation of all low and very low-income housing
units, as defined in Section 3 of the Illinois
Affordable Housing Act, within the redevelopment
project area. If the low and very low-income units are
part of a residential redevelopment project that
includes units not affordable to low and very
low-income households, only the low and very
low-income units shall be eligible for benefits under
this subparagraph (F) of paragraph (11). The standards
for maintaining the occupancy by low-income households
and very low-income households, as defined in Section
3 of the Illinois Affordable Housing Act, of those
units constructed with eligible costs made available
under the provisions of this subparagraph (F) of
paragraph (11) shall be established by guidelines
adopted by the municipality. The responsibility for
annually documenting the initial occupancy of the
units by low-income households and very low-income
households, as defined in Section 3 of the Illinois
Affordable Housing Act, shall be that of the then
current owner of the property. For ownership units,
the guidelines will provide, at a minimum, for a

reasonable recapture of funds, or other appropriate
methods designed to preserve the original
affordability of the ownership units. For rental
units, the guidelines will provide, at a minimum, for
the affordability of rent to low and very low-income
households. As units become available, they shall be
rented to income-eligible tenants. The municipality
may modify these guidelines from time to time; the
guidelines, however, shall be in effect for as long as
tax increment revenue is being used to pay for costs
associated with the units or for the retirement of
bonds issued to finance the units or for the life of
the redevelopment project area, whichever is later;
(11.5) If the redevelopment project area is located
within a municipality with a population of more than
100,000, the cost of day care services for children of
employees from low-income families working for businesses
located within the redevelopment project area and all or a
portion of the cost of operation of day care centers
established by redevelopment project area businesses to
serve employees from low-income families working in
businesses located in the redevelopment project area. For
the purposes of this paragraph, "low-income families"
means families whose annual income does not exceed 80% of
the municipal, county, or regional median income, adjusted
for family size, as the annual income and municipal,

county, or regional median income are determined from time
to time by the United States Department of Housing and
Urban Development.
(12) Costs relating to the development of urban
agricultural areas under Division 15.2 of the Illinois
Municipal Code.
Unless explicitly stated herein the cost of construction
of new privately-owned buildings shall not be an eligible
redevelopment project cost.
After November 1, 1999 (the effective date of Public Act
91-478), none of the redevelopment project costs enumerated in
this subsection shall be eligible redevelopment project costs
if those costs would provide direct financial support to a
retail entity initiating operations in the redevelopment
project area while terminating operations at another Illinois
location within 10 miles of the redevelopment project area but
outside the boundaries of the redevelopment project area
municipality. For purposes of this paragraph, termination
means a closing of a retail operation that is directly related
to the opening of the same operation or like retail entity
owned or operated by more than 50% of the original ownership in
a redevelopment project area, but it does not mean closing an
operation for reasons beyond the control of the retail entity,
as documented by the retail entity, subject to a reasonable
finding by the municipality that the current location
contained inadequate space, had become economically obsolete,

or was no longer a viable location for the retailer or
serviceman.
No cost shall be a redevelopment project cost in a
redevelopment project area if used to demolish, remove, or
substantially modify a historic resource, after August 26,
2008 (the effective date of Public Act 95-934), unless no
prudent and feasible alternative exists. "Historic resource"
for the purpose of this paragraph means (i) a place or
structure that is included or eligible for inclusion on the
National Register of Historic Places or (ii) a contributing
structure in a district on the National Register of Historic
Places. This paragraph does not apply to a place or structure
for which demolition, removal, or modification is subject to
review by the preservation agency of a Certified Local
Government designated as such by the National Park Service of
the United States Department of the Interior.
If a special service area has been established pursuant to
the Special Service Area Tax Act or Special Service Area Tax
Law, then any tax increment revenues derived from the tax
imposed pursuant to the Special Service Area Tax Act or
Special Service Area Tax Law may be used within the
redevelopment project area for the purposes permitted by that
Act or Law as well as the purposes permitted by this Act.
(q-1) For redevelopment project areas created pursuant to
subsection (p-1), redevelopment project costs are limited to
those costs in paragraph (q) that are related to the existing

or proposed Regional Transportation Authority Suburban Transit
Access Route (STAR Line) station.
(q-2) For a transit facility improvement area established
prior to, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory
Act of the 102nd General Assembly: (i) "redevelopment project
costs" means those costs described in subsection (q) that are
related to the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation,
remodeling, or repair of any existing or proposed transit
facility, whether that facility is located within or outside
the boundaries of a redevelopment project area established
within that transit facility improvement area (and, to the
extent a redevelopment project cost is described in subsection
(q) as incurred or estimated to be incurred with respect to a
redevelopment project area, then it shall apply with respect
to such transit facility improvement area); and (ii) the
provisions of Section 11-74.4-8 regarding tax increment
allocation financing for a redevelopment project area located
in a transit facility improvement area shall apply only to the
lots, blocks, tracts and parcels of real property that are
located within the boundaries of that redevelopment project
area and not to the lots, blocks, tracts, and parcels of real
property that are located outside the boundaries of that
redevelopment project area For a redevelopment project area
located within a transit facility improvement area established
pursuant to Section 11-74.4-3.3, redevelopment project costs
means those costs described in subsection (q) that are related

to the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation,
remodeling, or repair of any existing or proposed transit
facility.
(r) "State Sales Tax Boundary" means the redevelopment
project area or the amended redevelopment project area
boundaries which are determined pursuant to subsection (9) of
Section 11-74.4-8a of this Act. The Department of Revenue
shall certify pursuant to subsection (9) of Section 11-74.4-8a
the appropriate boundaries eligible for the determination of
State Sales Tax Increment.
(s) "State Sales Tax Increment" means an amount equal to
the increase in the aggregate amount of taxes paid by
retailers and servicemen, other than retailers and servicemen
subject to the Public Utilities Act, on transactions at places
of business located within a State Sales Tax Boundary pursuant
to the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, the Use Tax Act, the
Service Use Tax Act, and the Service Occupation Tax Act,
except such portion of such increase that is paid into the
State and Local Sales Tax Reform Fund, the Local Government
Distributive Fund, the Local Government Tax Fund and the
County and Mass Transit District Fund, for as long as State
participation exists, over and above the Initial Sales Tax
Amounts, Adjusted Initial Sales Tax Amounts or the Revised
Initial Sales Tax Amounts for such taxes as certified by the
Department of Revenue and paid under those Acts by retailers
and servicemen on transactions at places of business located

within the State Sales Tax Boundary during the base year which
shall be the calendar year immediately prior to the year in
which the municipality adopted tax increment allocation
financing, less 3.0% of such amounts generated under the
Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, Use Tax Act and Service Use Tax
Act and the Service Occupation Tax Act, which sum shall be
appropriated to the Department of Revenue to cover its costs
of administering and enforcing this Section. For purposes of
computing the aggregate amount of such taxes for base years
occurring prior to 1985, the Department of Revenue shall
compute the Initial Sales Tax Amount for such taxes and deduct
therefrom an amount equal to 4% of the aggregate amount of
taxes per year for each year the base year is prior to 1985,
but not to exceed a total deduction of 12%. The amount so
determined shall be known as the "Adjusted Initial Sales Tax
Amount". For purposes of determining the State Sales Tax
Increment the Department of Revenue shall for each period
subtract from the tax amounts received from retailers and
servicemen on transactions located in the State Sales Tax
Boundary, the certified Initial Sales Tax Amounts, Adjusted
Initial Sales Tax Amounts or Revised Initial Sales Tax Amounts
for the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, the Use Tax Act, the
Service Use Tax Act and the Service Occupation Tax Act. For the
State Fiscal Year 1989 this calculation shall be made by
utilizing the calendar year 1987 to determine the tax amounts
received. For the State Fiscal Year 1990, this calculation

shall be made by utilizing the period from January 1, 1988,
until September 30, 1988, to determine the tax amounts
received from retailers and servicemen, which shall have
deducted therefrom nine-twelfths of the certified Initial
Sales Tax Amounts, Adjusted Initial Sales Tax Amounts or the
Revised Initial Sales Tax Amounts as appropriate. For the
State Fiscal Year 1991, this calculation shall be made by
utilizing the period from October 1, 1988, until June 30,
1989, to determine the tax amounts received from retailers and
servicemen, which shall have deducted therefrom nine-twelfths
of the certified Initial State Sales Tax Amounts, Adjusted
Initial Sales Tax Amounts or the Revised Initial Sales Tax
Amounts as appropriate. For every State Fiscal Year
thereafter, the applicable period shall be the 12 months
beginning July 1 and ending on June 30, to determine the tax
amounts received which shall have deducted therefrom the
certified Initial Sales Tax Amounts, Adjusted Initial Sales
Tax Amounts or the Revised Initial Sales Tax Amounts.
Municipalities intending to receive a distribution of State
Sales Tax Increment must report a list of retailers to the
Department of Revenue by October 31, 1988 and by July 31, of
each year thereafter.
(t) "Taxing districts" means counties, townships, cities
and incorporated towns and villages, school, road, park,
sanitary, mosquito abatement, forest preserve, public health,
fire protection, river conservancy, tuberculosis sanitarium

and any other municipal corporations or districts with the
power to levy taxes.
(u) "Taxing districts' capital costs" means those costs of
taxing districts for capital improvements that are found by
the municipal corporate authorities to be necessary and
directly result from the redevelopment project.
(v) As used in subsection (a) of Section 11-74.4-3 of this
Act, "vacant land" means any parcel or combination of parcels
of real property without industrial, commercial, and
residential buildings which has not been used for commercial
agricultural purposes within 5 years prior to the designation
of the redevelopment project area, unless the parcel is
included in an industrial park conservation area or the parcel
has been subdivided; provided that if the parcel was part of a
larger tract that has been divided into 3 or more smaller
tracts that were accepted for recording during the period from
1950 to 1990, then the parcel shall be deemed to have been
subdivided, and all proceedings and actions of the
municipality taken in that connection with respect to any
previously approved or designated redevelopment project area
or amended redevelopment project area are hereby validated and
hereby declared to be legally sufficient for all purposes of
this Act. For purposes of this Section and only for land
subject to the subdivision requirements of the Plat Act, land
is subdivided when the original plat of the proposed
Redevelopment Project Area or relevant portion thereof has

been properly certified, acknowledged, approved, and recorded
or filed in accordance with the Plat Act and a preliminary
plat, if any, for any subsequent phases of the proposed
Redevelopment Project Area or relevant portion thereof has
been properly approved and filed in accordance with the
applicable ordinance of the municipality.
(w) "Annual Total Increment" means the sum of each
municipality's annual Net Sales Tax Increment and each
municipality's annual Net Utility Tax Increment. The ratio of
the Annual Total Increment of each municipality to the Annual
Total Increment for all municipalities, as most recently
calculated by the Department, shall determine the proportional
shares of the Illinois Tax Increment Fund to be distributed to
each municipality.
(x) "LEED certified" means any certification level of
construction elements by a qualified Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design Accredited Professional as determined by
the U.S. Green Building Council.
(y) "Green Globes certified" means any certification level
of construction elements by a qualified Green Globes
Professional as determined by the Green Building Initiative.
(Source: P.A. 99-792, eff. 8-12-16; 100-201, eff. 8-18-17;
100-465, eff. 8-31-17; 100-1133, eff. 1-1-19.)
(65 ILCS 5/11-74.4-3.3)
Sec. 11-74.4-3.3. Redevelopment project area within a

transit facility improvement area.
(a) As used in this Section:
"Redevelopment project area" means the area identified in:
the Chicago Union Station Master Plan; the Chicago Transit
Authority's Red and Purple Modernization Program; the Chicago
Transit Authority's Red Line Extension Program; and the
Chicago Transit Authority's Blue Line Modernization and
Extension Program, each as may be amended from time to time
after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th
General Assembly, and, in each case, regardless of whether all
of the parcels of real property included in the redevelopment
project area are adjacent to one another.
"Transit" means any one or more of the following
transportation services provided to passengers: inter-city
passenger rail service; commuter rail service; and urban mass
transit rail service, whether elevated, underground, or
running at grade, and whether provided through rolling stock
generally referred to as heavy rail or light rail.
"Transit facility" means an existing or proposed transit
passenger station, an existing or proposed transit
maintenance, storage or service facility, or an existing or
proposed right of way for use in providing transit services.
"Transit facility improvement area" means an area whose
boundaries are no more than one-half mile in any direction
from the location of a transit passenger station, or the
existing or proposed right of way of transit facility, as

applicable; provided that the length of any existing or
proposed right of way or a transit passenger station included
in any transit facility improvement area shall not exceed: 9
miles for the Chicago Transit Authority's Blue Line
Modernization and Extension Program; 17 miles for the Chicago
Transit Authority's Red and Purple Modernization Program
(running from Madison Street North to Linden Avenue); and 20
miles for the Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line Extension
Program (running from Madison Street South to 134th 130th
Street (as extended)).
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the
contrary, if the corporate authorities of a municipality
designate an area within the territorial limits of the
municipality as a transit facility improvement area, then that
municipality may establish one or more redevelopment project
areas within that transit facility improvement area for the
purpose of developing new transit facilities, expanding or
rehabilitating existing transit facilities, or both, within
that transit facility improvement area. With respect to a
transit facility whose right of way is located in more than one
municipality, each municipality may designate an area within
its territorial limits as a transit facility improvement area
and may establish a redevelopment project area for each of the
qualifying projects identified in subsection (a) of this
Section.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on and after

the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General
Assembly, the following provisions apply to transit facility
improvement areas, and to redevelopment project areas located
in a transit facility improvement area, established prior to,
on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
102nd General Assembly:
(1) A redevelopment project area established within a
transit facility improvement area whose boundaries satisfy
the requirements of this Section shall be deemed to
satisfy the contiguity requirements of subsection (a) of
Section 11-74.4-4, regardless of whether all of the
parcels of real property included in the redevelopment
project area are adjacent to one another.
(2) Item (1) applies through and including the
completion date of the redevelopment project located
within the transit facility improvement area established
pursuant to Section 11-74.4-3.3 and the date of retirement
of obligations issued to finance redevelopment project
costs, all in accordance with subsection (a-5) of Section
11-74.4-3.5.
(Source: P.A. 99-792, eff. 8-12-16.)
(65 ILCS 5/11-74.4-3.5)
Sec. 11-74.4-3.5. Completion dates for redevelopment
projects.
(a) Unless otherwise stated in this Section, the estimated

dates of completion of the redevelopment project and
retirement of obligations issued to finance redevelopment
project costs (including refunding bonds under Section
11-74.4-7) may not be later than December 31 of the year in
which the payment to the municipal treasurer, as provided in
subsection (b) of Section 11-74.4-8 of this Act, is to be made
with respect to ad valorem taxes levied in the 23rd calendar
year after the year in which the ordinance approving the
redevelopment project area was adopted if the ordinance was
adopted on or after January 15, 1981.
(a-5) If the redevelopment project area is located within
a transit facility improvement area established pursuant to
Section 11-74.4-3, the estimated dates of completion of the
redevelopment project and retirement of obligations issued to
finance redevelopment project costs (including refunding bonds
under Section 11-74.4-7) may not be later than December 31 of
the year in which the payment to the municipal treasurer, as
provided in subsection (b) of Section 11-74.4-8 of this Act,
is to be made with respect to ad valorem taxes levied in the
35th calendar year after the year in which the ordinance
approving the redevelopment project area was adopted.
(a-7) A municipality may adopt tax increment financing for
a redevelopment project area located in a transit facility
improvement area that also includes real property located
within an existing redevelopment project area established
prior to August 12, 2016 (the effective date of Public Act

99-792). In such case: (i) the provisions of this Division
shall apply with respect to the previously established
redevelopment project area until the municipality adopts, as
required in accordance with applicable provisions of this
Division, an ordinance dissolving the special tax allocation
fund for such redevelopment project area and terminating the
designation of such redevelopment project area as a
redevelopment project area; and (ii) after the effective date
of the ordinance described in (i), the provisions of this
Division shall apply with respect to the subsequently
established redevelopment project area located in a transit
facility improvement area.
(b) The estimated dates of completion of the redevelopment
project and retirement of obligations issued to finance
redevelopment project costs (including refunding bonds under
Section 11-74.4-7) may not be later than December 31 of the
year in which the payment to the municipal treasurer as
provided in subsection (b) of Section 11-74.4-8 of this Act is
to be made with respect to ad valorem taxes levied in the 32nd
calendar year after the year in which the ordinance approving
the redevelopment project area was adopted if the ordinance
was adopted on September 9, 1999 by the Village of Downs.
The estimated dates of completion of the redevelopment
project and retirement of obligations issued to finance
redevelopment project costs (including refunding bonds under
Section 11-74.4-7) may not be later than December 31 of the

year in which the payment to the municipal treasurer as
provided in subsection (b) of Section 11-74.4-8 of this Act is
to be made with respect to ad valorem taxes levied in the 33rd
calendar year after the year in which the ordinance approving
the redevelopment project area was adopted if the ordinance
was adopted on May 20, 1985 by the Village of Wheeling.
The estimated dates of completion of the redevelopment
project and retirement of obligations issued to finance
redevelopment project costs (including refunding bonds under
Section 11-74.4-7) may not be later than December 31 of the
year in which the payment to the municipal treasurer as
provided in subsection (b) of Section 11-74.4-8 of this Act is
to be made with respect to ad valorem taxes levied in the 28th
calendar year after the year in which the ordinance approving
the redevelopment project area was adopted if the ordinance
was adopted on October 12, 1989 by the City of Lawrenceville.
(c) The estimated dates of completion of the redevelopment
project and retirement of obligations issued to finance
redevelopment project costs (including refunding bonds under
Section 11-74.4-7) may not be later than December 31 of the
year in which the payment to the municipal treasurer as
provided in subsection (b) of Section 11-74.4-8 of this Act is
to be made with respect to ad valorem taxes levied in the 35th
calendar year after the year in which the ordinance approving
the redevelopment project area was adopted:
(1) If the ordinance was adopted before January 15,

1981.
(2) If the ordinance was adopted in December 1983,
April 1984, July 1985, or December 1989.
(3) If the ordinance was adopted in December 1987 and
the redevelopment project is located within one mile of
Midway Airport.
(4) If the ordinance was adopted before January 1,
1987 by a municipality in Mason County.
(5) If the municipality is subject to the Local
Government Financial Planning and Supervision Act or the
Financially Distressed City Law.
(6) If the ordinance was adopted in December 1984 by
the Village of Rosemont.
(7) If the ordinance was adopted on December 31, 1986
by a municipality located in Clinton County for which at
least $250,000 of tax increment bonds were authorized on
June 17, 1997, or if the ordinance was adopted on December
31, 1986 by a municipality with a population in 1990 of
less than 3,600 that is located in a county with a
population in 1990 of less than 34,000 and for which at
least $250,000 of tax increment bonds were authorized on
June 17, 1997.
(8) If the ordinance was adopted on October 5, 1982 by
the City of Kankakee, or if the ordinance was adopted on
December 29, 1986 by East St. Louis.
(9) If the ordinance was adopted on November 12, 1991

by the Village of Sauget.
(10) If the ordinance was adopted on February 11, 1985
by the City of Rock Island.
(11) If the ordinance was adopted before December 18,
1986 by the City of Moline.
(12) If the ordinance was adopted in September 1988 by
Sauk Village.
(13) If the ordinance was adopted in October 1993 by
Sauk Village.
(14) If the ordinance was adopted on December 29, 1986
by the City of Galva.
(15) If the ordinance was adopted in March 1991 by the
City of Centreville.
(16) If the ordinance was adopted on January 23, 1991
by the City of East St. Louis.
(17) If the ordinance was adopted on December 22, 1986
by the City of Aledo.
(18) If the ordinance was adopted on February 5, 1990
by the City of Clinton.
(19) If the ordinance was adopted on September 6, 1994
by the City of Freeport.
(20) If the ordinance was adopted on December 22, 1986
by the City of Tuscola.
(21) If the ordinance was adopted on December 23, 1986
by the City of Sparta.
(22) If the ordinance was adopted on December 23, 1986

by the City of Beardstown.
(23) If the ordinance was adopted on April 27, 1981,
October 21, 1985, or December 30, 1986 by the City of
Belleville.
(24) If the ordinance was adopted on December 29, 1986
by the City of Collinsville.
(25) If the ordinance was adopted on September 14,
1994 by the City of Alton.
(26) If the ordinance was adopted on November 11, 1996
by the City of Lexington.
(27) If the ordinance was adopted on November 5, 1984
by the City of LeRoy.
(28) If the ordinance was adopted on April 3, 1991 or
June 3, 1992 by the City of Markham.
(29) If the ordinance was adopted on November 11, 1986
by the City of Pekin.
(30) If the ordinance was adopted on December 15, 1981
by the City of Champaign.
(31) If the ordinance was adopted on December 15, 1986
by the City of Urbana.
(32) If the ordinance was adopted on December 15, 1986
by the Village of Heyworth.
(33) If the ordinance was adopted on February 24, 1992
by the Village of Heyworth.
(34) If the ordinance was adopted on March 16, 1995 by
the Village of Heyworth.

(35) If the ordinance was adopted on December 23, 1986
by the Town of Cicero.
(36) If the ordinance was adopted on December 30, 1986
by the City of Effingham.
(37) If the ordinance was adopted on May 9, 1991 by the
Village of Tilton.
(38) If the ordinance was adopted on October 20, 1986
by the City of Elmhurst.
(39) If the ordinance was adopted on January 19, 1988
by the City of Waukegan.
(40) If the ordinance was adopted on September 21,
1998 by the City of Waukegan.
(41) If the ordinance was adopted on December 31, 1986
by the City of Sullivan.
(42) If the ordinance was adopted on December 23, 1991
by the City of Sullivan.
(43) If the ordinance was adopted on December 31, 1986
by the City of Oglesby.
(44) If the ordinance was adopted on July 28, 1987 by
the City of Marion.
(45) If the ordinance was adopted on April 23, 1990 by
the City of Marion.
(46) If the ordinance was adopted on August 20, 1985
by the Village of Mount Prospect.
(47) If the ordinance was adopted on February 2, 1998
by the Village of Woodhull.

(48) If the ordinance was adopted on April 20, 1993 by
the Village of Princeville.
(49) If the ordinance was adopted on July 1, 1986 by
the City of Granite City.
(50) If the ordinance was adopted on February 2, 1989
by the Village of Lombard.
(51) If the ordinance was adopted on December 29, 1986
by the Village of Gardner.
(52) If the ordinance was adopted on July 14, 1999 by
the Village of Paw Paw.
(53) If the ordinance was adopted on November 17, 1986
by the Village of Franklin Park.
(54) If the ordinance was adopted on November 20, 1989
by the Village of South Holland.
(55) If the ordinance was adopted on July 14, 1992 by
the Village of Riverdale.
(56) If the ordinance was adopted on December 29, 1986
by the City of Galesburg.
(57) If the ordinance was adopted on April 1, 1985 by
the City of Galesburg.
(58) If the ordinance was adopted on May 21, 1990 by
the City of West Chicago.
(59) If the ordinance was adopted on December 16, 1986
by the City of Oak Forest.
(60) If the ordinance was adopted in 1999 by the City
of Villa Grove.

(61) If the ordinance was adopted on January 13, 1987
by the Village of Mt. Zion.
(62) If the ordinance was adopted on December 30, 1986
by the Village of Manteno.
(63) If the ordinance was adopted on April 3, 1989 by
the City of Chicago Heights.
(64) If the ordinance was adopted on January 6, 1999
by the Village of Rosemont.
(65) If the ordinance was adopted on December 19, 2000
by the Village of Stone Park.
(66) If the ordinance was adopted on December 22, 1986
by the City of DeKalb.
(67) If the ordinance was adopted on December 2, 1986
by the City of Aurora.
(68) If the ordinance was adopted on December 31, 1986
by the Village of Milan.
(69) If the ordinance was adopted on September 8, 1994
by the City of West Frankfort.
(70) If the ordinance was adopted on December 23, 1986
by the Village of Libertyville.
(71) If the ordinance was adopted on December 22, 1986
by the Village of Hoffman Estates.
(72) If the ordinance was adopted on September 17,
1986 by the Village of Sherman.
(73) If the ordinance was adopted on December 16, 1986
by the City of Macomb.

(74) If the ordinance was adopted on June 11, 2002 by
the City of East Peoria to create the West Washington
Street TIF.
(75) If the ordinance was adopted on June 11, 2002 by
the City of East Peoria to create the Camp Street TIF.
(76) If the ordinance was adopted on August 7, 2000 by
the City of Des Plaines.
(77) If the ordinance was adopted on December 22, 1986
by the City of Washington to create the Washington Square
TIF #2.
(78) If the ordinance was adopted on December 29, 1986
by the City of Morris.
(79) If the ordinance was adopted on July 6, 1998 by
the Village of Steeleville.
(80) If the ordinance was adopted on December 29, 1986
by the City of Pontiac to create TIF I (the Main St TIF).
(81) If the ordinance was adopted on December 29, 1986
by the City of Pontiac to create TIF II (the Interstate
TIF).
(82) If the ordinance was adopted on November 6, 2002
by the City of Chicago to create the Madden/Wells TIF
District.
(83) If the ordinance was adopted on November 4, 1998
by the City of Chicago to create the Roosevelt/Racine TIF
District.
(84) If the ordinance was adopted on June 10, 1998 by

the City of Chicago to create the Stony Island
Commercial/Burnside Industrial Corridors TIF District.
(85) If the ordinance was adopted on November 29, 1989
by the City of Chicago to create the Englewood Mall TIF
District.
(86) If the ordinance was adopted on December 27, 1986
by the City of Mendota.
(87) If the ordinance was adopted on December 31, 1986
by the Village of Cahokia.
(88) If the ordinance was adopted on September 20,
1999 by the City of Belleville.
(89) If the ordinance was adopted on December 30, 1986
by the Village of Bellevue to create the Bellevue TIF
District 1.
(90) If the ordinance was adopted on December 13, 1993
by the Village of Crete.
(91) If the ordinance was adopted on February 12, 2001
by the Village of Crete.
(92) If the ordinance was adopted on April 23, 2001 by
the Village of Crete.
(93) If the ordinance was adopted on December 16, 1986
by the City of Champaign.
(94) If the ordinance was adopted on December 20, 1986
by the City of Charleston.
(95) If the ordinance was adopted on June 6, 1989 by
the Village of Romeoville.

(96) If the ordinance was adopted on October 14, 1993
and amended on August 2, 2010 by the City of Venice.
(97) If the ordinance was adopted on June 1, 1994 by
the City of Markham.
(98) If the ordinance was adopted on May 19, 1998 by
the Village of Bensenville.
(99) If the ordinance was adopted on November 12, 1987
by the City of Dixon.
(100) If the ordinance was adopted on December 20,
1988 by the Village of Lansing.
(101) If the ordinance was adopted on October 27, 1998
by the City of Moline.
(102) If the ordinance was adopted on May 21, 1991 by
the Village of Glenwood.
(103) If the ordinance was adopted on January 28, 1992
by the City of East Peoria.
(104) If the ordinance was adopted on December 14,
1998 by the City of Carlyle.
(105) If the ordinance was adopted on May 17, 2000, as
subsequently amended, by the City of Chicago to create the
Midwest Redevelopment TIF District.
(106) If the ordinance was adopted on September 13,
1989 by the City of Chicago to create the Michigan/Cermak
Area TIF District.
(107) If the ordinance was adopted on March 30, 1992
by the Village of Ohio.

(108) If the ordinance was adopted on July 6, 1998 by
the Village of Orangeville.
(109) If the ordinance was adopted on December 16,
1997 by the Village of Germantown.
(110) If the ordinance was adopted on April 28, 2003
by Gibson City.
(111) If the ordinance was adopted on December 18,
1990 by the Village of Washington Park, but only after the
Village of Washington Park becomes compliant with the
reporting requirements under subsection (d) of Section
11-74.4-5, and after the State Comptroller's certification
of such compliance.
(112) If the ordinance was adopted on February 28,
2000 by the City of Harvey.
(113) If the ordinance was adopted on January 11, 1991
by the City of Chicago to create the Read/Dunning TIF
District.
(114) If the ordinance was adopted on July 24, 1991 by
the City of Chicago to create the Sanitary and Ship Canal
TIF District.
(115) If the ordinance was adopted on December 4, 2007
by the City of Naperville.
(116) If the ordinance was adopted on July 1, 2002 by
the Village of Arlington Heights.
(117) If the ordinance was adopted on February 11,
1991 by the Village of Machesney Park.

(118) If the ordinance was adopted on December 29,
1993 by the City of Ottawa.
(119) If the ordinance was adopted on June 4, 1991 by
the Village of Lansing.
(120) If the ordinance was adopted on February 10,
2004 by the Village of Fox Lake.
(121) If the ordinance was adopted on December 22,
1992 by the City of Fairfield.
(122) If the ordinance was adopted on February 10,
1992 by the City of Mt. Sterling.
(123) If the ordinance was adopted on March 15, 2004
by the City of Batavia.
(124) If the ordinance was adopted on March 18, 2002
by the Village of Lake Zurich.
(125) If the ordinance was adopted on September 23,
1997 by the City of Granite City.
(126) If the ordinance was adopted on May 8, 2013 by
the Village of Rosemont to create the Higgins Road/River
Road TIF District No. 6.
(127) If the ordinance was adopted on November 22,
1993 by the City of Arcola.
(128) If the ordinance was adopted on September 7,
2004 by the City of Arcola.
(129) If the ordinance was adopted on November 29,
1999 by the City of Paris.
(130) If the ordinance was adopted on September 20,

1994 by the City of Ottawa to create the U.S. Route 6 East
Ottawa TIF.
(131) If the ordinance was adopted on May 2, 2002 by
the Village of Crestwood.
(132) If the ordinance was adopted on October 27, 1992
by the City of Blue Island.
(133) If the ordinance was adopted on December 23,
1993 by the City of Lacon.
(134) If the ordinance was adopted on May 4, 1998 by
the Village of Bradford.
(135) If the ordinance was adopted on June 11, 2002 by
the City of Oak Forest.
(136) If the ordinance was adopted on November 16,
1992 by the City of Pinckneyville.
(137) If the ordinance was adopted on March 1, 2001 by
the Village of South Jacksonville.
(138) If the ordinance was adopted on February 26,
1992 by the City of Chicago to create the Stockyards
Southeast Quadrant TIF District.
(139) If the ordinance was adopted on January 25, 1993
by the City of LaSalle.
(140) If the ordinance was adopted on December 23,
1997 by the Village of Dieterich.
(141) If the ordinance was adopted on February 10,
2016 by the Village of Rosemont to create the
Balmoral/Pearl TIF No. 8 Tax Increment Financing

Redevelopment Project Area.
(142) If the ordinance was adopted on June 11, 2002 by
the City of Oak Forest.
(143) If the ordinance was adopted on January 31, 1995
by the Village of Milledgeville.
(144) If the ordinance was adopted on February 5, 1996
by the Village of Pearl City.
(145) If the ordinance was adopted on December 21,
1994 by the City of Calumet City.
(146) If the ordinance was adopted on May 5, 2003 by
the Town of Normal.
(147) If the ordinance was adopted on June 2, 1998 by
the City of Litchfield.
(148) If the ordinance was adopted on October 23, 1995
by the City of Marion.
(149) If the ordinance was adopted on May 24, 2001 by
the Village of Hanover Park.
(150) If the ordinance was adopted on May 30, 1995 by
the Village of Dalzell.
(151) If the ordinance was adopted on April 15, 1997
by the City of Edwardsville.
(152) If the ordinance was adopted on September 5,
1995 by the City of Granite City.
(153) If the ordinance was adopted on June 21, 1999 by
the Village of Table Grove.
(154) If the ordinance was adopted on February 23,

1995 by the City of Springfield.
(155) If the ordinance was adopted on August 11, 1999
by the City of Monmouth.
(156) If the ordinance was adopted on December 26,
1995 by the Village of Posen.
(157) If the ordinance was adopted on July 1, 1995 by
the Village of Caseyville.
(158) If the ordinance was adopted on January 30, 1996
by the City of Madison.
(159) If the ordinance was adopted on February 2, 1996
by the Village of Hartford.
(160) If the ordinance was adopted on July 2, 1996 by
the Village of Manlius.
(161) If the ordinance was adopted on March 21, 2000
by the City of Hoopeston.
(162) If the ordinance was adopted on March 22, 2005
by the City of Hoopeston.
(163) If the ordinance was adopted on July 10, 1996 by
the City of Chicago to create the Goose Island TIF
District.
(164) If the ordinance was adopted on December 11,
1996 by the City of Chicago to create the Bryn
Mawr/Broadway TIF District.
(165) If the ordinance was adopted on December 31,
1995 by the City of Chicago to create the 95th/Western TIF
District.

(166) If the ordinance was adopted on October 7, 1998
by the City of Chicago to create the 71st and Stony Island
TIF District.
(167) If the ordinance was adopted on April 19, 1995
by the Village of North Utica.
(168) If the ordinance was adopted on April 22, 1996
by the City of LaSalle.
(169) If the ordinance was adopted on June 9, 2008 by
the City of Country Club Hills.
(170) If the ordinance was adopted on July 3, 1996 by
the Village of Phoenix.
(171) If the ordinance was adopted on May 19, 1997 by
the Village of Swansea.
(172) If the ordinance was adopted on August 13, 2001
by the Village of Saunemin.
(173) If the ordinance was adopted on January 10, 2005
by the Village of Romeoville.
(174) If the ordinance was adopted on January 28, 1997
by the City of Berwyn for the South Berwyn Corridor Tax
Increment Financing District.
(175) If the ordinance was adopted on January 28, 1997
by the City of Berwyn for the Roosevelt Road Tax Increment
Financing District.
(176) If the ordinance was adopted on May 3, 2001 by
the Village of Hanover Park for the Village Center Tax
Increment Financing Redevelopment Project Area (TIF # 3).

(177) If the ordinance was adopted on January 1, 1996
by the City of Savanna.
(178) If the ordinance was adopted on January 28, 2002
by the Village of Okawville.
(179) If the ordinance was adopted on October 4, 1999
by the City of Vandalia.
(180) If the ordinance was adopted on June 16, 2003 by
the City of Rushville.
(181) If the ordinance was adopted on December 7, 1998
by the City of Quincy for the Central Business District
West Tax Increment Redevelopment Project Area.
(182) If the ordinance was adopted on March 27, 1997
by the Village of Maywood approving the Roosevelt Road TIF
District.
(183) If the ordinance was adopted on March 27, 1997
by the Village of Maywood approving the Madison
Street/Fifth Avenue TIF District.
(184) If the ordinance was adopted on November 10,
1997 by the Village of Park Forest.
(185) If the ordinance was adopted on July 30, 1997 by
the City of Chicago to create the Near North TIF district.
(186) If the ordinance was adopted on December 1, 2000
by the Village of Mahomet.
(187) If the ordinance was adopted on June 16, 1999 by
the Village of Washburn.
(188) If the ordinance was adopted on August 19, 1998

by the Village of New Berlin.
(189) If the ordinance was adopted on February 5, 2002
by the City of Highwood.
(190) If the ordinance was adopted on June 1, 1997 by
the City of Flora.
(191) If the ordinance was adopted on November 21,
2000 by the City of Effingham.
(192) If the ordinance was adopted on January 28, 2003
by the City of Effingham.
(193) If the ordinance was adopted on February 4, 2008
by the City of Polo.
(194) If the ordinance was adopted on August 17, 2005
by the Village of Bellwood to create the Park Place TIF.
(195) If the ordinance was adopted on July 16, 2014 by
the Village of Bellwood to create the North-2014 TIF.
(196) If the ordinance was adopted on July 16, 2014 by
the Village of Bellwood to create the South-2014 TIF.
(197) If the ordinance was adopted on July 16, 2014 by
the Village of Bellwood to create the Central Metro-2014
TIF.
(198) If the ordinance was adopted on September 17,
2014 by the Village of Bellwood to create the Addison
Creek "A" (Southwest)-2014 TIF.
(199) If the ordinance was adopted on September 17,
2014 by the Village of Bellwood to create the Addison
Creek "B" (Northwest)-2014 TIF.

(200) If the ordinance was adopted on September 17,
2014 by the Village of Bellwood to create the Addison
Creek "C" (Northeast)-2014 TIF.
(201) If the ordinance was adopted on September 17,
2014 by the Village of Bellwood to create the Addison
Creek "D" (Southeast)-2014 TIF.
(202) If the ordinance was adopted on June 26, 2007 by
the City of Peoria.
(203) If the ordinance was adopted on October 28, 2008
by the City of Peoria.
(204) If the ordinance was adopted on April 4, 2000 by
the City of Joliet to create the Joliet City Center TIF
District.
(205) If the ordinance was adopted on July 8, 1998 by
the City of Chicago to create the 43rd/Cottage Grove TIF
district.
(206) If the ordinance was adopted on July 8, 1998 by
the City of Chicago to create the 79th Street Corridor TIF
district.
(207) If the ordinance was adopted on November 4, 1998
by the City of Chicago to create the Bronzeville TIF
district.
(208) If the ordinance was adopted on February 5, 1998
by the City of Chicago to create the Homan/Arthington TIF
district.
(209) If the ordinance was adopted on December 8, 1998

by the Village of Plainfield.
(d) For redevelopment project areas for which bonds were
issued before July 29, 1991, or for which contracts were
entered into before June 1, 1988, in connection with a
redevelopment project in the area within the State Sales Tax
Boundary, the estimated dates of completion of the
redevelopment project and retirement of obligations to finance
redevelopment project costs (including refunding bonds under
Section 11-74.4-7) may be extended by municipal ordinance to
December 31, 2013. The termination procedures of subsection
(b) of Section 11-74.4-8 are not required for these
redevelopment project areas in 2009 but are required in 2013.
The extension allowed by Public Act 87-1272 shall not apply to
real property tax increment allocation financing under Section
11-74.4-8.
(e) Those dates, for purposes of real property tax
increment allocation financing pursuant to Section 11-74.4-8
only, shall be not more than 35 years for redevelopment
project areas that were adopted on or after December 16, 1986
and for which at least $8 million worth of municipal bonds were
authorized on or after December 19, 1989 but before January 1,
1990; provided that the municipality elects to extend the life
of the redevelopment project area to 35 years by the adoption
of an ordinance after at least 14 but not more than 30 days'
written notice to the taxing bodies, that would otherwise
constitute the joint review board for the redevelopment

project area, before the adoption of the ordinance.
(f) Those dates, for purposes of real property tax
increment allocation financing pursuant to Section 11-74.4-8
only, shall be not more than 35 years for redevelopment
project areas that were established on or after December 1,
1981 but before January 1, 1982 and for which at least
$1,500,000 worth of tax increment revenue bonds were
authorized on or after September 30, 1990 but before July 1,
1991; provided that the municipality elects to extend the life
of the redevelopment project area to 35 years by the adoption
of an ordinance after at least 14 but not more than 30 days'
written notice to the taxing bodies, that would otherwise
constitute the joint review board for the redevelopment
project area, before the adoption of the ordinance.
(f-1) (Blank). Those dates, for purposes of real property
tax increment allocation financing pursuant to Section
11-74.4-8 only, shall be not more than 47 years for the
redevelopment project area that was established on December
31, 1986 by the Village of Cahokia if: (i) the Village of
Cahokia adopts an ordinance extending the life of the
redevelopment project area to 47 years; and (ii) the Village
of Cahokia provides notice to the taxing bodies that would
otherwise constitute the joint review board for the
redevelopment project area not more than 30 and not less than
14 days prior to the adoption of that ordinance.
(f-2) (Blank). Those dates, for purposes of real property

tax increment allocation financing pursuant to Section
11-74.4-8 only, shall be not more than 47 years for the
redevelopment project area that was established on December
20, 1986 by the City of Charleston; provided that (i) the City
of Charleston adopts an ordinance extending the life of the
redevelopment project area to 47 years and (ii) the City of
Charleston provides notice to the taxing bodies that would
otherwise constitute the joint review board for the
redevelopment project area not more than 30 and not less than
14 days prior to the adoption of that ordinance.
(f-5) Those dates, for purposes of real property tax
increment allocation financing pursuant to Section 11-74.4-8
only, shall be not more than 47 years for redevelopment
project areas listed in this subsection that were established
on December 29, 1981 by the City of Springfield; provided that
(i) the municipality City of Springfield adopts an ordinance
extending the life of the redevelopment project area to 47
years and (ii) the municipality City of Springfield provides
notice to the taxing bodies that would otherwise constitute
the joint review board for the redevelopment project area not
more than 30 and not less than 14 days prior to the adoption of
that ordinance: .
(1) If the redevelopment project area was established
on December 29, 1981 by the City of Springfield.
(2) If the redevelopment project area was established
on December 31, 1986 by the Village of Cahokia.

(3) If the redevelopment project area was established
on December 20, 1986 by the City of Charleston.
(4) If the redevelopment project area was established
on December 23, 1986 by the City of Beardstown.
(5) If the redevelopment project area was established
on December 23, 1986 by the Town of Cicero.
(6) If the redevelopment project area was established
on December 29, 1986 by the City of East St. Louis.
(7) If the redevelopment project area was established
on January 23, 1991 by the City of East St. Louis.
(8) If the redevelopment project area was established
on December 29, 1986 by the Village of Gardner.
(9) If the redevelopment project area was established
on June 11, 2002 by the City of East Peoria to create the
West Washington Street TIF.
(g) In consolidating the material relating to completion
dates from Sections 11-74.4-3 and 11-74.4-7 into this Section,
it is not the intent of the General Assembly to make any
substantive change in the law, except for the extension of the
completion dates for the City of Aurora, the Village of Milan,
the City of West Frankfort, the Village of Libertyville, and
the Village of Hoffman Estates set forth under items (67),
(68), (69), (70), and (71) of subsection (c) of this Section.
(Source: P.A. 100-201, eff. 8-18-17; 100-214, eff. 8-18-17;
100-249, eff. 8-22-17; 100-510, eff. 9-15-17; 100-591, eff.
6-21-18; 100-609, eff. 7-17-18; 100-836, eff. 8-13-18;

100-853, eff. 8-14-18; 100-859, eff. 8-14-18; 100-863, eff.
8-14-18; 100-873, eff. 8-14-18; 100-899, eff. 8-17-18;
100-928, eff. 8-17-18; 100-967, eff. 8-19-18; 100-1031, eff.
8-22-18; 100-1032, eff. 8-22-18; 100-1164, eff. 12-27-18;
101-274, eff. 8-9-19; 101-618, eff. 12-20-19; 101-647, eff.
6-26-20; 101-662, eff. 4-2-21.)
(65 ILCS 5/11-74.4-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-74.4-4)
Sec. 11-74.4-4. Municipal powers and duties; redevelopment
project areas. The changes made by this amendatory Act of the
91st General Assembly do not apply to a municipality that, (i)
before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st
General Assembly, has adopted an ordinance or resolution
fixing a time and place for a public hearing under Section
11-74.4-5 or (ii) before July 1, 1999, has adopted an
ordinance or resolution providing for a feasibility study
under Section 11-74.4-4.1, but has not yet adopted an
ordinance approving redevelopment plans and redevelopment
projects or designating redevelopment project areas under this
Section, until after that municipality adopts an ordinance
approving redevelopment plans and redevelopment projects or
designating redevelopment project areas under this Section;
thereafter the changes made by this amendatory Act of the 91st
General Assembly apply to the same extent that they apply to
redevelopment plans and redevelopment projects that were
approved and redevelopment projects that were designated

before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st
General Assembly.
A municipality may:
(a) By ordinance introduced in the governing body of
the municipality within 14 to 90 days from the completion
of the hearing specified in Section 11-74.4-5 approve
redevelopment plans and redevelopment projects, and
designate redevelopment project areas pursuant to notice
and hearing required by this Act. No redevelopment project
area shall be designated unless a plan and project are
approved prior to the designation of such area and such
area shall include only those contiguous parcels of real
property and improvements thereon substantially benefited
by the proposed redevelopment project improvements. Upon
adoption of the ordinances, the municipality shall
forthwith transmit to the county clerk of the county or
counties within which the redevelopment project area is
located a certified copy of the ordinances, a legal
description of the redevelopment project area, a map of
the redevelopment project area, identification of the year
that the county clerk shall use for determining the total
initial equalized assessed value of the redevelopment
project area consistent with subsection (a) of Section
11-74.4-9, and a list of the parcel or tax identification
number of each parcel of property included in the
redevelopment project area.

(b) Make and enter into all contracts with property
owners, developers, tenants, overlapping taxing bodies,
and others necessary or incidental to the implementation
and furtherance of its redevelopment plan and project.
Contract provisions concerning loan repayment obligations
in contracts entered into on or after the effective date
of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly shall
terminate no later than the last to occur of the estimated
dates of completion of the redevelopment project and
retirement of the obligations issued to finance
redevelopment project costs as required by item (3) of
subsection (n) of Section 11-74.4-3. Payments received
under contracts entered into by the municipality prior to
the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd
General Assembly that are received after the redevelopment
project area has been terminated by municipal ordinance
shall be deposited into a special fund of the municipality
to be used for other community redevelopment needs within
the redevelopment project area.
(c) Within a redevelopment project area, acquire by
purchase, donation, lease or eminent domain; own, convey,
lease, mortgage or dispose of land and other property,
real or personal, or rights or interests therein, and
grant or acquire licenses, easements and options with
respect thereto, all in the manner and at such price the
municipality determines is reasonably necessary to achieve

the objectives of the redevelopment plan and project. No
conveyance, lease, mortgage, disposition of land or other
property owned by a municipality, or agreement relating to
the development of such municipal property shall be made
except upon the adoption of an ordinance by the corporate
authorities of the municipality. Furthermore, no
conveyance, lease, mortgage, or other disposition of land
owned by a municipality or agreement relating to the
development of such municipal property shall be made
without making public disclosure of the terms of the
disposition and all bids and proposals made in response to
the municipality's request. The procedures for obtaining
such bids and proposals shall provide reasonable
opportunity for any person to submit alternative proposals
or bids.
(d) Within a redevelopment project area, clear any
area by demolition or removal of any existing buildings
and structures.
(e) Within a redevelopment project area, renovate or
rehabilitate or construct any structure or building, as
permitted under this Act.
(f) Install, repair, construct, reconstruct or
relocate streets, utilities and site improvements
essential to the preparation of the redevelopment area for
use in accordance with a redevelopment plan.
(g) Within a redevelopment project area, fix, charge

and collect fees, rents and charges for the use of any
building or property owned or leased by it or any part
thereof, or facility therein.
(h) Accept grants, guarantees and donations of
property, labor, or other things of value from a public or
private source for use within a project redevelopment
area.
(i) Acquire and construct public facilities within a
redevelopment project area, as permitted under this Act.
(j) Incur project redevelopment costs and reimburse
developers who incur redevelopment project costs
authorized by a redevelopment agreement; provided,
however, that on and after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly, no
municipality shall incur redevelopment project costs
(except for planning costs and any other eligible costs
authorized by municipal ordinance or resolution that are
subsequently included in the redevelopment plan for the
area and are incurred by the municipality after the
ordinance or resolution is adopted) that are not
consistent with the program for accomplishing the
objectives of the redevelopment plan as included in that
plan and approved by the municipality until the
municipality has amended the redevelopment plan as
provided elsewhere in this Act.
(k) Create a commission of not less than 5 or more than

15 persons to be appointed by the mayor or president of the
municipality with the consent of the majority of the
governing board of the municipality. Members of a
commission appointed after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of 1987 shall be appointed for initial
terms of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 years, respectively, in such
numbers as to provide that the terms of not more than 1/3
of all such members shall expire in any one year. Their
successors shall be appointed for a term of 5 years. The
commission, subject to approval of the corporate
authorities may exercise the powers enumerated in this
Section. The commission shall also have the power to hold
the public hearings required by this division and make
recommendations to the corporate authorities concerning
the adoption of redevelopment plans, redevelopment
projects and designation of redevelopment project areas.
(l) Make payment in lieu of taxes or a portion thereof
to taxing districts. If payments in lieu of taxes or a
portion thereof are made to taxing districts, those
payments shall be made to all districts within a project
redevelopment area on a basis which is proportional to the
current collections of revenue which each taxing district
receives from real property in the redevelopment project
area.
(m) Exercise any and all other powers necessary to
effectuate the purposes of this Act.

(n) If any member of the corporate authority, a member
of a commission established pursuant to Section
11-74.4-4(k) of this Act, or an employee or consultant of
the municipality involved in the planning and preparation
of a redevelopment plan, or project for a redevelopment
project area or proposed redevelopment project area, as
defined in Sections 11-74.4-3(i) through (k) of this Act,
owns or controls an interest, direct or indirect, in any
property included in any redevelopment area, or proposed
redevelopment area, he or she shall disclose the same in
writing to the clerk of the municipality, and shall also
so disclose the dates and terms and conditions of any
disposition of any such interest, which disclosures shall
be acknowledged by the corporate authorities and entered
upon the minute books of the corporate authorities. If an
individual holds such an interest then that individual
shall refrain from any further official involvement in
regard to such redevelopment plan, project or area, from
voting on any matter pertaining to such redevelopment
plan, project or area, or communicating with other members
concerning corporate authorities, commission or employees
concerning any matter pertaining to said redevelopment
plan, project or area. Furthermore, no such member or
employee shall acquire of any interest direct, or
indirect, in any property in a redevelopment area or
proposed redevelopment area after either (a) such

individual obtains knowledge of such plan, project or area
or (b) first public notice of such plan, project or area
pursuant to Section 11-74.4-6 of this Division, whichever
occurs first. For the purposes of this subsection, a
property interest acquired in a single parcel of property
by a member of the corporate authority, which property is
used exclusively as the member's primary residence, shall
not be deemed to constitute an interest in any property
included in a redevelopment area or proposed redevelopment
area that was established before December 31, 1989, but
the member must disclose the acquisition to the municipal
clerk under the provisions of this subsection. A single
property interest acquired within one year after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General
Assembly or 2 years after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly by a member of
the corporate authority does not constitute an interest in
any property included in any redevelopment area or
proposed redevelopment area, regardless of when the
redevelopment area was established, if (i) the property is
used exclusively as the member's primary residence, (ii)
the member discloses the acquisition to the municipal
clerk under the provisions of this subsection, (iii) the
acquisition is for fair market value, (iv) the member
acquires the property as a result of the property being
publicly advertised for sale, and (v) the member refrains

from voting on, and communicating with other members
concerning, any matter when the benefits to the
redevelopment project or area would be significantly
greater than the benefits to the municipality as a whole.
For the purposes of this subsection, a month-to-month
leasehold interest in a single parcel of property by a
member of the corporate authority shall not be deemed to
constitute an interest in any property included in any
redevelopment area or proposed redevelopment area, but the
member must disclose the interest to the municipal clerk
under the provisions of this subsection.
(o) Create a Tax Increment Economic Development
Advisory Committee to be appointed by the Mayor or
President of the municipality with the consent of the
majority of the governing board of the municipality, the
members of which Committee shall be appointed for initial
terms of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 years respectively, in such
numbers as to provide that the terms of not more than 1/3
of all such members shall expire in any one year. Their
successors shall be appointed for a term of 5 years. The
Committee shall have none of the powers enumerated in this
Section. The Committee shall serve in an advisory capacity
only. The Committee may advise the governing Board of the
municipality and other municipal officials regarding
development issues and opportunities within the
redevelopment project area or the area within the State

Sales Tax Boundary. The Committee may also promote and
publicize development opportunities in the redevelopment
project area or the area within the State Sales Tax
Boundary.
(p) Municipalities may jointly undertake and perform
redevelopment plans and projects and utilize the
provisions of the Act wherever they have contiguous
redevelopment project areas or they determine to adopt tax
increment financing with respect to a redevelopment
project area which includes contiguous real property
within the boundaries of the municipalities, and in doing
so, they may, by agreement between municipalities, issue
obligations, separately or jointly, and expend revenues
received under the Act for eligible expenses anywhere
within contiguous redevelopment project areas or as
otherwise permitted in the Act. With respect to
redevelopment project areas that are established within a
transit facility improvement area, the provisions of this
subsection apply only with respect to such redevelopment
project areas that are contiguous to each other.
(q) Utilize revenues, other than State sales tax
increment revenues, received under this Act from one
redevelopment project area for eligible costs in another
redevelopment project area that is:
(i) contiguous to the redevelopment project area
from which the revenues are received;

(ii) separated only by a public right of way from
the redevelopment project area from which the revenues
are received; or
(iii) separated only by forest preserve property
from the redevelopment project area from which the
revenues are received if the closest boundaries of the
redevelopment project areas that are separated by the
forest preserve property are less than one mile apart.
Utilize tax increment revenues for eligible costs that
are received from a redevelopment project area created
under the Industrial Jobs Recovery Law that is either
contiguous to, or is separated only by a public right of
way from, the redevelopment project area created under
this Act which initially receives these revenues. Utilize
revenues, other than State sales tax increment revenues,
by transferring or loaning such revenues to a
redevelopment project area created under the Industrial
Jobs Recovery Law that is either contiguous to, or
separated only by a public right of way from the
redevelopment project area that initially produced and
received those revenues; and, if the redevelopment project
area (i) was established before the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly and (ii) is
located within a municipality with a population of more
than 100,000, utilize revenues or proceeds of obligations
authorized by Section 11-74.4-7 of this Act, other than

use or occupation tax revenues, to pay for any
redevelopment project costs as defined by subsection (q)
of Section 11-74.4-3 to the extent that the redevelopment
project costs involve public property that is either
contiguous to, or separated only by a public right of way
from, a redevelopment project area whether or not
redevelopment project costs or the source of payment for
the costs are specifically set forth in the redevelopment
plan for the redevelopment project area.
(r) If no redevelopment project has been initiated in
a redevelopment project area within 7 years after the area
was designated by ordinance under subsection (a), the
municipality shall adopt an ordinance repealing the area's
designation as a redevelopment project area; provided,
however, that if an area received its designation more
than 3 years before the effective date of this amendatory
Act of 1994 and no redevelopment project has been
initiated within 4 years after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of 1994, the municipality shall adopt an
ordinance repealing its designation as a redevelopment
project area. Initiation of a redevelopment project shall
be evidenced by either a signed redevelopment agreement or
expenditures on eligible redevelopment project costs
associated with a redevelopment project.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section to
the contrary, with respect to a redevelopment project area

designated by an ordinance that was adopted on July 29,
1998 by the City of Chicago, the City of Chicago shall
adopt an ordinance repealing the area's designation as a
redevelopment project area if no redevelopment project has
been initiated in the redevelopment project area within 15
years after the designation of the area. The City of
Chicago may retroactively repeal any ordinance adopted by
the City of Chicago, pursuant to this subsection (r), that
repealed the designation of a redevelopment project area
designated by an ordinance that was adopted by the City of
Chicago on July 29, 1998. The City of Chicago has 90 days
after the effective date of this amendatory Act to repeal
the ordinance. The changes to this Section made by this
amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly apply
retroactively to July 27, 2005.
(s) The various powers and duties described in this
Section that apply to a redevelopment project area shall
also apply to a transit facility improvement area
established prior to, on, or after the effective date of
this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly.
(Source: P.A. 99-792, eff. 8-12-16.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.