Tag: just compensation Illinois

Few letters demand a property owner’s complete attention more than one saying that a government agency wants to acquire part or all of the owner’s land. Anger, outrage, and confusion are natural responses to such a letter, as in the question of what one should do next.  The government does have the authority to take private property in some circumstances, even when the owner does not want to sell. That power is known as eminent domain, and the process and action of the government exercising eminent domain is called “condemnation.” […]