SOCIETY OF DIVINE WORD v. COUNTY OF COOK

Gen. No. 53,193.

107 Ill. App.2d 363 (1969)

247 N.E.2d 21

Society of the Divine Word, an Illinois Not-for-Profit Corporation, and Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit, an Illinois Not-for-Profit Corporation, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. County of Cook, a Body Politic and Corporate, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District.

March 21, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Stamos, State's Attorney of Cook County, of Chicago (Dean H. Bilton, Charles A. Berke, and Ronald Butler, Assistant State's Attorneys, and Edward J. Hladis, Chief of Civil Division, of counsel), Klein, Thorpe, Kasson & Jenkins, and Frederick O. Floberg, of Chicago, for appellants.

Walter P. Murphy, Eugene Dooner Murphy, Francis L. Zimmermann, Martin, Craig, Chester & Sonnenschein, Sydney G. Craig, Lyle L. Richmond, of Chicago, and Robert J. Mangler, of Wilmette, for appellees.


TRAPP, P.J.

Defendant, Cook County, and intervening defendants appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Cook County declaring the Cook County Zoning Ordinance unconstitutional to the extent that it prohibits use of plaintiffs' property for a sanitary landfill. The judgment enjoins interference with the use of plaintiffs' property as a landfill and orders the defendant county to issue any necessary license and...

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