The City of Hometown, Illinois, is for the purpose of conducting
municipal elections, including primaries, and for such other purposes
as hereafter may be provided by law, divided into five wards, which
shall be numbered and comprise the territory as follows:.
[Amended 7-11-2023 by Ord. No. 6-2023]
The boundaries of the various wards shall be as follows:
The ward map, together with a description of the ward boundaries,
identified as "Official Ward Map for the City of Hometown", is hereby
adopted as the official City map for aldermanic election purposes
as specified in Exhibit A.[1] Wards of the City shall be properly identified by the
word "ward" followed by the Arabic numeral corresponding to the ward
number assigned by the redistricting ordinance.
A copy of the map showing the area of the boundaries of each
ward together with a supplement describing the boundaries using census
blocks as determined by the United States Census Bureau of each ward
is on file in the City Clerk's office as attached as Exhibit
A. In general, the centerline of the identified right-of-way in a
redistricting ordinance shall be the boundary line unless otherwise
noted.
Territory annexed into the City following the adoption of a
redistricting ordinance shall, upon annexation and without further
action by the city council be made a part of the adjacent or surrounding
ward; provided that whenever two or more wards surround or are contiguous
with the annexed territory the City Council shall provide as part
of the ordinance annexing the territory what ward or wards the territory
shall be made a part of.
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Editor's Note: Exhibit A is included as an attachment to this chapter.
Wherever a street is indicated as the boundary of a ward, the
center line of such street shall be considered to be the boundary
line of such ward; provided, however, that if such street or some
part thereof constitutes some portion or all of the distance for which
said street is hereinabove designated as the boundary of any ward,
then that part of the street which is the boundary of the City shall
also be the boundary of such ward; and provided further that if any
streets are not dedicated throughout the entire distance for which
it is indicated as one of the boundary lines of any ward, then the
prolongation of the distance for which it is indicated as one of the
boundary lines of any ward, then the prolongation of the center line
of such street shall be considered to be such boundary line.
