Swinger v. Municipal Officers' Electoral Board

This appeal involves the annexation of approximately 3,000 acres into the Village of Fairview (Village) in Fulton County, Illinois. On November 2, 1987, the corporate authorities of the Village passed an ordinance annexing the acreage into the Village. Thereafter, the appellants filed with the village clerk a petition calling for a back-door referendum on the question of the annexation of the subject property into the Village. Subsequently, on January 5, 1988, objections to the petition for referendum were also filed with the village clerk. The Village then referred the petition • for…