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ciVic inFormation<br />
township is a political and geographical<br />
subdivision of a county and state. it is a municipal<br />
corporate body that can own property, sue<br />
and be sued, borrow money and levy taxes in<br />
accordance with state statutes. a township’s<br />
elected officials may act for <strong>the</strong> electorate in <strong>the</strong><br />
township’s name when conducting business.<br />
lake county is divided into 18 townships. Generally, <strong>the</strong>re are<br />
eight officers in each township, elected for terms of four years:<br />
supervisor, clerk, assessor, highway commissioner and four<br />
trustees. all townships are required to provide welfare assistance<br />
and property assessment. townships also may establish<br />
libraries, medical clinics, museums, community buildings,<br />
recreation districts, mental health facilities, cemeteries and youth<br />
committees.<br />
township government originated in <strong>the</strong> mid-1600s. illinois in<br />
1787 was included in <strong>the</strong> northwest territory in which congress<br />
designated counties and townships in a broad area of mostly<br />
unsettled land. <strong>the</strong> second illinois constitution, adopted in<br />
1848, gave counties <strong>the</strong> option to include townships in <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
governmental structure.<br />
lake county was established east of <strong>the</strong> Fox river on march<br />
1, 1839. county offices were opened april, 1841 at little Fort<br />
(waukegan). most illinois counties, including lake, chose <strong>the</strong><br />
township system in a general election in 1849.<br />
26 | 2011 lFlB community GuiDe<br />
Lake Forest/<br />
Lake Bluff Townships<br />
shieLDs township<br />
906 muir avenue<br />
lake Bluff 60044-1588<br />
Gayle strenger wayne, supervisor<br />
Phone: 234-0802<br />
www.shieldstownship.com<br />
hours: m – F, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.<br />
second saturdays of each month: 9 a.m. – noon<br />
Passports available<br />
■ shields township held its first meeting in april 1850. at that<br />
meeting michael c. mcGuire was elected <strong>the</strong> first supervisor<br />
of <strong>the</strong> township. shields township, which includes a majority of<br />
lake Forest, all of lake Bluff and Knollwood and part of north<br />
chicago, was named in honor of General James shields, a hero<br />
in <strong>the</strong> mexican war of 1846-47. at <strong>the</strong> time of <strong>the</strong> naming in 1850,<br />
General shields was a u.s. senator from illinois.<br />
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