Send us your articles!
Please email any articles or topics that you think we should feature to Editor@ChicagoCodes.com.
Case Law: Statute of Limitations Upholds Annexation
September 15, 2010 by matt · Leave a Comment
The trial court correctly held that a property owner was barred by a one-year statute of limitations from challenging the annexation of its property into the Village of Glendale Heights. The Illinois Appellate Court, 2nd District, has affirmed a ruling by DuPage County Circuit Judge Bonnie M. Wheaton.
Ayre Enterprises, Inc. was the owner of a parcel of real estate that had been annexed into the village by an October 2000 ordinance. The village alleged that Glen Ayre violated the village’s zoning ordinances and therefore sought injunctions restricting the use of the land.
Read More…
Zoning text amendment permits winds of change
June 28, 2010 by peter · Leave a Comment
A recent decision of the Seventh Circuit federal court of appeals rejected a claim to prevent the construction of a windmill farm.
Read More…
Case Law: Tax Assessment Valuation
March 4, 2010 by dwagner · 2 Comments
The state Property Tax Appeal Board erroneously allowed a property owner to voluntarily dismiss its appeal to the board without giving a reason for the dismissal and without giving intervening school districts a chance to present their evidence in the case.
Read More…
Case Law: Recording Land Surveys
County must record or ensure recording of all documents that effect restrictions on real estate, in order to hold any subsequent owner or purchaser responsible for the restrictions. Read More…
Case Law: Down-Zoning
September 19, 2009 by dwagner · Leave a Comment
Municipalities have lots of leeway in amending zoning laws, even if it spoils fantasies of real estate developers. But when a municipality yanks the grass carpet from under a developer by ”down-zoning” property, the vested-rights doctrine might protect the owner’s right to build structures that would have been permitted under the old regulation. Read More…
Case Law: Condemnation
A DuPage County jury doubled the Indian Prairie Community School District’s condemnation offer to a total of $31,000,750 for one of the last remaining large tracts of land in DuPage County. Read More…
Case Law: Tort Law
September 4, 2007 by dwagner · Leave a Comment
The City of Chicago has immunity from a lawsuit brought by the mother of a man who fell from the roof of a three-story building during a December 2004 party, the 1st District Appellate Court held Tuesday. Read More…
Case Law:
June 7, 2007 by dwagner · Leave a Comment
The Village of Northbrook’s zoning requirements did not violate federal law by preventing a Presbyterian church from establishing a home in the northwest suburb, a federal appeals court held Thursday. Read More…
Case Law: Adult Bookstore
April 8, 2007 by dwagner · Leave a Comment
City’s restrictions on location of adult-use businesses, which effectively zones such establishments outside of the city, did not violate business owner’s First Amendment rights where adequate alternative locations were available. Read More…
Case Law: Vested Right in Prior Zoning
January 21, 2007 by dwagner · Leave a Comment
The correct date for determination of substantial expenditure to prove vested right in the prior zoning classification is the date that some official action was taken to change zoning, as opposed to date alderman first discussed with developer the possibility of zoning amendment. Read More…
