People Ex Rel. Freeport Fire Protection District v. City of Freeport

This is an annexation case in which the Freeport Fire Protection District and the town of Silver Creek petitioned for a writ of quo warranto against the city of Freeport to oust the city from jurisdiction over certain territory annexed by the city, which formerly was part of the town of Silver Creek and the Freeport Fire Protection District.

The basis of the quo warranto writ is that the territories annexed are not contiguous to the city as required by section 7—1—8 of the Illinois Municipal Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 24, par. 7—1—8), and as the Illinois courts have construed the term…