Illinois Statutes Chapter 70. Special Districts § 405/26a.1. Division of districts

(1) The name of the district proposed to be divided,

(2) The proposed names of the districts to be formed from it,

(3) The proposed boundaries of each of the districts to be formed.

The petition shall be accompanied by an inventory of the property belonging to the district and of its liabilities and a proposed plan for a division of these assets and liabilities between or among the districts proposed to be formed.

Within 30 days after such a petition is filed, the Department shall submit the proposal to the directors of the district proposed to be divided. The directors shall within 30 days thereafter adopt and submit to the Department a resolution approving or disapproving the proposed division.

If the directors disapprove the proposed division, the petition shall be denied. If the directors favor the proposed division, the Department shall give 10 days notice of the holding of a referendum by causing such notice to be published at least once in one or more newspapers having general circulation within the district and hold a referendum within the district upon the question of the proposed division. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the proposition shall be submitted in accordance with Section 28-3 of the Election Code.  1 The proposition shall be submitted upon ballots in substantially the following form:

Only owners or occupiers of land, or both, lying within the district are eligible to vote in the referendum. Such vote may be cast in person or by absentee ballot.