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IN RE PETITION OF THE TOWN OF NORMAL

No. 11392.

5 Ill. App.3d 363 (1972)

283 N.E.2d 44

In re PETITION OF THE TOWN OF NORMAL FOR ANNEXATION OF CERTAIN TERRITORY — (THE TOWN OF NORMAL, Petitioner-Appellee, v. ELLIS HARTER et al., Objectors-Appellants.)

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

May 16, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Costigan & Wollrab, of Bloomington, (Robert W. Neirynck, of counsel,) for appellants.

Thomson, Thomson & Mirza, of Bloomington, (Leon J. Zanoni, of counsel,) for appellee.

DePew, Grimes & DePew, of Bloomington, (Joseph W. DePew, of counsel,) amicus curiae.

Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE SMITH delivered the opinion of the court:

One of the ways for a city to annex contiguous land volitionally, so to speak, is to enact an ordinance to that effect. This method is more circumscribed than by the so-called petition route where owners of contiguous land seek to be annexed. The statutory basis for annexation by ordinance is Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 24, par. 7-1-2, which reads, so far as we are concerned:

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