Illinois Statutes Chapter 65. Municipalities § 5/11-11-3. Additional powers of local public agency

§ 11-11-3. In addition to all other powers granted municipalities, and not in derogation thereof, the corporate authorities of any municipality which is the Local Public Agency under an urban renewal project as defined in Section 11-11-2 shall have the same powers, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of procedure in the incurrence of indebtedness and the issuance of bonds as are prescribed in Sections 27 and 28 of the “Urban Renewal Consolidation Act of 1961”, approved August 15, 1961, as the same are now or may hereafter be amended,  1 as fully as if provisions contained in said sections of the “Urban Renewal Consolidation Act of 1961” were set forth herein, except that the term “Department” as therein used shall, as applied to such municipality, mean the municipality as Local Public Agency.