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- Title: Northern Tr. Co. v. City of Chicago
- Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
- Release Date : January 20, 1954
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
Description
The city of Chicago appeals to this court from a decree of the circuit court of Cook County entered in favor of certain property
owners holding invalid and restraining the enforcement of certain amendments to the city's zoning ordinance as against their
property. The property owners, plaintiffs-appellees, contended the amendments were in violation of the due process and equal
protection of the law provisions of the State and Federal constitutions and in violation of the State constitution's provision
prohibiting the taking of private property or damaging same for public use without just compensation. The property involved, owned by The Northern Trust Company, as trustee under trust No. 16252, The Northern Trust Company,
as trustee under trust No. 19588, and Raymond Donnersberger and Genevive Donnersberger, trustees under the last will and testament
of George Donnersberger, deceased, is located on the southwest side of Chicago bounded by West Fifty-first Street and the
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad and Chicago & Western Indiana railroad tracks on the north, South Harding Avenue on
the east, West Fifty-third Street on the south and South Pulaski Road (South Crawford Avenue) on the west. It contains approximately
350,000 square feet in area and has been continuously owned by the present owners and their predecessors in title since 1910.