The following acts and parts of acts are repealed except as provided in Section 1-9-9:
"An Act authorizing any city of this State having a population of less than 100,000 inhabitants, which has established and is supporting a public hospital, to reconstruct, improve, make extensions, repair and equip such public hospital, and to prescribe the mode of procedure for and to regulate the issuance and sale of bonds to finance such works, undertakings and projects," approved January 16, 1936, as amended;
"An Act to regulate the civil service of cities," approved March 20, 1895, as amended;
"An Act to authorize cities to establish houses of correction and farm colonies within the corporate limits and outside the corporate limits within the same county and authorize the confinement of convicted persons therein," approved April 25, 1871, as amended;
Section 21c of "An Act in relation to motor vehicles and to repeal a certain act therein named," approved June 30, 1919, as amended;
"An Act authorizing cities, towns and villages to permit the construction of surface and elevated ways," approved May 25, 1907;
"An Act authorizing cities, towns and villages to construct and maintain surface and elevated ways, and turn the same over to public park corporate authorities," approved May 25, 1907;
"An Act to authorize cities to open streets through parks," approved June 27, 1913;
"An Act in relation to the joint ownership and operation of municipal buildings," approved July 13, 1955;
"An Act to enable cities, towns and villages organized under any law to regulate, license and control wagons and other vehicles," approved June 28, 1913, as amended;
"An Act authorizing cities and villages to provide for the payment of allowances of money to the families or dependents of policemen and firemen killed or fatally injured while in the performance of their duties and authorizing such cities and villages to provide medical care and hospital treatment in case of accident to policemen and firemen," approved June 27, 1921, as amended;
"An Act to authorize cities, villages and incorporated towns to procure certain insurance policies for the benefit of volunteer firemen," approved July 17, 1941;
"An Act to provide for the recording of building permits issued by any municipality in counties containing 500,000 or more inhabitants," approved July 13, 1955, as amended;
"An Act to provide for the creation, setting apart, maintenance and administration of a Board of Election Commissioner's Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund in cities having a population of more than two hundred thousand (200,000) inhabitants in which any Board of Election Commissioners is functioning in accordance with law," approved July 8, 1935, as amended;
"An Act in relation to the payment of pensions from the corporate fund of cities having a population exceeding two hundred thousand inhabitants," approved July 5, 1935;
"An Act in relation to audits of the accounts of cities, villages and incorporated towns having a population not exceeding 500,000," approved July 3, 1951, as amended;
"The Industrial Building Revenue Bond Act of 1951," approved August 2, 1951, as amended;
"An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a police pension fund in cities, villages and incorporated towns having a population of not more than 200,000 inhabitants," approved June 14, 1909, as amended;
"An Act to provide for the creation, setting apart, maintenance and administration of a firemen's annuity and benefit fund in cities having a population exceeding five hundred thousand inhabitants," approved June 12, 1931, as amended;
"An Act to provide for the creation, setting apart, maintenance and administration of a policemen's annuity and benefit fund in cities having a population exceeding two hundred thousand inhabitants," approved June 29, 1921, as amended;
"An Act to create an organization and a fund for the pensioning of disabled fire insurance patrolmen, and the widows and children of deceased patrolmen, and authorizing the retirement from service and the pensioning of members of the fire insurance patrol in cities, villages and towns where the population exceeds 50,000 inhabitants having a paid fire insurance patrol," approved June 24, 1895, as amended;
All of "The Revised Cities and Villages Act," approved August 15, 1941, as amended, except Article 21 of said Revised Cities and Villages Act.
65 ILCS 5/1-9-8