Use It or Lose It: Municipal Takings of School District Property in Village of Woodbridge v. Bd. Of Educ., 933 N.E.2d 392 (Ill. App. Ct. 2010)

Authors

• Charles McGuire

Abstract

Disputes between agencies of state government invariably consume taxpayer dollars and should be avoided whenever practicable.  The Illinois legislature contains two sources of authority for municipalities to take—via eminent      domain—real property belonging to other public entities.  This casenote posits that the legislative scheme governing taking of real property by one public entity from another public entity should be streamlined and clarified in order to prevent public agencies from expending vital human and economic resources litigating the propriety of such takings.  The current statutory scheme governing the taking of real property, by one public agency from another, unnecessarily places both agencies at odds with each other to the ultimate detriment of Illinois taxpayers.

Recommended Citation

Charles McGuire, Use It or Lose It: Municipal Takings of School District Property in Village of Woodbridge v. Bd. Of Educ., 933 N.E.2d 392 (Ill. App. Ct. 2010), 36 S. Ill. U. L.J. 405 (2012).
Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/siulj/vol36/iss2/8