70 ILCS 1210/2
In any park district to which this Act is or shall become applicable, there is hereby created and established a civil service board, hereinafter called the board, to consist of 3 persons to be selected in the manner following:
The governing authority or body of such park district, hereinafter called the park commissioners, shall within 30 days after this Act becomes applicable, and thereafter whenever a vacancy occurs, appoint a superintendent of employment, for a term of 6 years from the date of his or her appointment and until his or her successor is duly appointed and qualified, which said superintendent of employment shall be under the direction and supervision of the park commissioners (except that with respect to the Chicago Park District the superintendent of employment shall be appointed, shall serve a term, if any, and shall be directed and supervised as provided in "An Act in relation to the creation, maintenance, operation and improvement of the Chicago Park District", approved July 10, 1933, as now or hereafter amended), and 2 park commissioners or members of such governing authority, each for a term of 2 years from the date of his or her appointment and until his or her successor is duly appointed and qualified, who shall constitute and be known as the civil service board of such park district. The superintendent of employment shall be paid a salary of not less than $2,400 a year, and shall devote his or her entire and exclusive time and attention to the duties pertaining to the office of superintendent and not engage in any other employment. The park commissioners may fix the salary of each of the other members of the civil service board at such sum, not to exceed $500 a year, as they may deem proper. Two members of the board shall constitute a quorum.
No member of the civil service board shall be removed except for palpable incompetence, or malfeasance in office upon written charges filed by or at the direction of the park commissioners and heard before the park commissioners upon 10 days written notice to the member.
The commission shall hear and determine the charges and its findings shall be final and if such charges shall be sustained, the member of the civil service board so charged, shall be forthwith removed from office. A final decision of the commission shall be subject to review by the circuit court pursuant to the Administrative Review Law. If no appeal is taken from a final decision sustaining the charges, or if such a final decision is upheld on review, the park commission shall proceed within 30 days to fill the vacancy created by such removal.
70 ILCS 1210/2