3. Following thereupon shall be printed each proposition to be voted upon in substantially the following form:

For the adoption of an ordinance for the redistricting of the City of Chicago (here insert "passed by the city council" or "proposed by Aldermen (here insert names of the aldermen signing petition)" as the case may require).

For the adoption of an ordinance for the redistricting of the City of Chicago proposed by Aldermen (here insert names of the aldermen signing the petition).

Whenever the question of the adoption of but one redistricting ordinance shall be submitted to the voters, the form of the ballot shall be substantially as follows:

Shall the ordinance proposed by Aldermen (Here insert the names of the aldermen signing the petition) be adopted?

YES

ΝΟ

4. All the propositions shall be printed in uniform type.

$ 7. REDISTRICTING ORDINANCE SUBMITTED WHEN APPROVED AND IN EFFECT.] If the question of the adoption of one of two or more redistricting ordinances is submitted to the voters at any election, the ordinance for which the highest number of votes is cast shall be deemed approved and shall thereupon be in force and effect. If the question of the adoption of but one such ordinance is submitted at any election and a majority of the votes cast thereon are for the adoption of such ordinance, it shall thereupon be in force and effect; otherwise such ordinance shall not go into effect.

$ 8. ELECTION AND BALLOT LAWS TO APPLY WHERE CONSISTENT HEREWITH. All election and ballot laws in force in the City of Chicago governing the submission of propositions to a popular vote or applicable thereto and not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act shall apply to and govern the submission of any propositions herein provided for.

$ 9. REDISTRICTING IN 1931 AND DECENNIALLY THEREAFTER.] On or before the first day of December, 1931, and every ten years thereafter, the city council shall by ordinance redistrict the city on the basis of the national census of the preceding year. All provisions of this Act, relating to redistricting of the city immediately following the adoption of this Act, including the provisions for the filing and submission of substitute or other redistricting ordinances, shall apply with equal force and effect to the redistricting of the city in 1931 and decennially thereafter.

§ 2. This Act shall not be in force in the City of Chicago until the question of its adoption shall first have been submitted to the legal voters of the City of Chicago and approved by a majority of those voting thereon.

The question of the adoption of this Act by the City of Chicago shall be submitted to such legal voters at the first general, municipal, or special election, to be held in and for the entire city after the passage of this Act, or before that time at a special election to be called by the city council by ordinance.

If this Act shall fail to be adopted at the election aforesaid by a majority of the legal voters of the City of Chicago voting thereon, the city council of the City of Chicago may by ordinance direct that the question of the adoption of this Act be again submitted to such legal voters at any such general, municipal, or special election in and for the entire city to be held not less than thirty days from and after the passage of such ordinance, and not less than 15 months prior to the expiration of the term of the mayor in office at the time of the passage of such ordinance. The city clerk of the City of Chicago shall promptly certify the passage of such ordinance to the board of election commissioners of the City of Chicago, and it shall thereupon be the duty of said board. of election commissioners to submit the question of the adoption of this Act to such legal voters at such election.

If this Act shall fail to be adopted at the election first provided for herein by a majority of the legal voters thereon, the question of the adoption of this Act may also again be submitted to the legal voters. of the City of Chicago, at any general, municipal, or special election. to be held in and for the entire city not less than forty days from and after the filing of the petition hereinafter provided for, and not less than 15 months prior to the expiration of the term of the mayor in office at the time of filing such petition, in the following manner: A petition signed by legal voters of the city equal in number to at least five per cent of the legal voters of the city voting at the last receding election for mayor, demanding the submission of the question of the adoption of this Act, may be filed with said board of election commissioners and it shall thereupon be the duty of said board of election commissioners to submit the question of the adoption of this Act to such legal voters at the election specified in said petition.

If this Act shall fail to be adopted, at any time at which it is submitted under the requirements of this section, by a majority of the legal voters of the City of Chicago voting thereon, then it may be resubmitted from time to time by ordinance or petition as above provided.

The said Board of election commissioners shall give notice of any election provided for in this section by publishing a notice thereof, not less than twenty days prior to such election, in at least one newspaper of general circulation published in the City of Chicago.

The ballot to be used at such election shall be in substantially the following form:

For the adoption of an Act to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," so as to provide for the election of one alderman from each ward, for redistricting the City of Chicago into fifty wards and for the election of the city clerk and city treasurer for terms of four years each.

YES

NO

If a majority of the legal voters of the City of Chicago, voting thereon at any such election, shall vote for the adoption of this Act, it shali thereby and thereupon be adopted and shall be in force and effect and become operative in the City of Chicago. Alderman elected at the election of 1923 and at general elections for aldermen subsequent thereto shall serve for the term determined by popular vote in accordance with the provisions of this section. At any time when the question of the adoption of this Act is submitted to the legal voters of the City of Chicago, there shall also be submitted upon the same ballot questions to appear as follows:

"Vote for one"

For the adoption of a two year term for aldermen.

For the adoption of a four year term for aldermen.

If a majority of those voting on the questions shall vote for a two year term, the term of aldermen elected in 1923 and at subsequent general elections for aldermen shall be two years, and a general election for aldermen shall be held at the time prescribed by law, each second year after 1923. If a majority of those voting on the question shall vote for a four year term, the term of aldermen elected in 1923 and at subsequent general elections for aldermen shall be four years and a general election for aldermen shall be held at the time prescribed by law each fourth year after 1923. If this Act shall be adopted so as to become operative subsequent to the general election to be held in the Year 1923, a general election for aldermen shall always come at the same time as the election for mayor.

§3. That an Act constituting Part IV of Article XII, and entitled, "An Act to amend Article XII of an Act entitled, 'An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages,' approved April 10, 1872, as amended by subsequent Acts and as amended by an Act approved May 18, 1905, and in force July 1, 1905," approved June 2. 1913, be and the same is hereby repealed.

APPROVED June 28, 1919.

(SENATE BILL NO. 125. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1919.)

AN ACT to confer certain additional powers upon city councils in cities and presidents and boards of trustees in villages concerning buildings, the intensity of use of lot areas, the classification of buildings, trades and industries with respect to location and regulation, the creation of residential, industrial, commercial and other districts, and the exclusion from and regulation within such districts of classes of buildings, trades and industries.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That in addition to existing powers, and to the end that adequate light, pure air and safety from fire and other dangers may be secured, that the taxable value of land and buildings throughout the city or village may be conserved, that congestion in the public streets may be lessened or avoided, and that the public health, safety, comfort and welfare may otherwise be promoted, the city council in each city, and the president and board of trustees in each village, shall have the following powers:

To regulate and limit the height and bulk of buildings hereafter to be erected, to regulate and limit the intensity of the use of lot areas and to regulate and determine the area of yards, courts and other open spaces within and surrounding such buildings; to classify, regulate and restrict the location of trades and industries and the location of buildings designed for specified uses; to make regulations designating the trades and industries that shall be excluded or subjected to special regulations within fixed districts and designating uses for which buildings may not be erected or altered in such district; to divide the city or village or portions of same into districts of such number, shape and area as may be deemed best suited to carry out the purposes of this Act, including the power to create and establish residential districts within which new buildings designed for business may be excluded, restricted or limited, and including the power to regulate and restrict the location of trades and industries and buildings designed for same in such a way that classes of industries which affect the general comfort of the public may be excluded from districts where commercial and professional pursuits which do not affect the comfort of the public are carried on; and to prevent the alteration or remodelling of existing buildings in such a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations lawfully imposed on any such district; provided, that in ordinances passed under the authority of this Act due allowance shall be made for existing conditions, the conservation of property values, the direction of building development to the best advantage of the entire city or village, and the uses to which property is devoted at the time of the enactment of any such ordinance, and that the powers by this Act given shall not be

exercised so as to deprive the owner of any existing property of its use for the purpose to which it is then lawfully devoted. And provided further, that nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent additions to and alterations of any existing plant or building made to further the purpose to which it is then lawfully devoted.

§ 2. No ordinance under the authority of this Act shall be enacted until a public hearing has been held upon the subject matter of the proposed ordinance before a commission, board or committee authorized by the city council in cities, or the president and board of trustees in villages, to investigate and make recommendations concerning such subject matter, and an opportunity afforded the owners of land or lots within the proposed district to file written objection as herein provided for. Such public hearing shall be held only after publication in a newspaper of such city or village of a notice of the time and place of such hearing at least thirty days in advance thereof and the posting of such notice at not less than four different places within such district, which notice shall indicate the boundaries of the territory to be affected both by the designation of the street and house numbers included and by the legal description of the property therein, and shall state what regulations under the authority of this Act affecting such territory are to be considered at such hearing. In addition to making publication and posting notices as herein provided, the officer or officers authorized to hold said public hearing shall cause a notice of similar import to be mailed to the person shown by the records of the county collector as the one who paid the taxes during the last preceding calendar year on each ot, block, tract or parcel of land situated within such territory, at the residence of the person so paying the taxes on each lot, block, tract or parcel of land, if the same can on diligent inquiry be found, and if the same cannot on diligent inquiry be found, such notice shall be directed to such person at the general delivery of the post office in the city or village in which said district is proposed to be made. The affidavit of the officer designated by ordinance as the one to give such notice to the effect that such publication was made in such newspaper and by such posting and that such notices were mailed shall be taken as conclusive evidence that sufficient notice was given to all parties interested. When a district is first created no ordinance shall be passed hereunder which shall enlarge or reduce or otherwise change the boundaries of the territory as indicated in such notice without another such notice and public hearing. Said public hearing shall be conducted by the said commission, board or committee and may be temporarily adjourned and reconvened from time to time until final adjournment at the discretion of the said commission, board or committee. After such final adjournment said commission, board or committee shall make its report and recommendation to the city council or board of trustees, as the case may be, and file the same with the city or village clerk within ten (10) days of the date of such adjournment.

$3. At any time after the public hearing herein provided for, and not more than thirty (30) days after such commission, board or Committee shall file its report as required herein, the owners of a