UNITED PRIV. DET. & SEC. ASS'N v. CHICAGO

No. 47531.

62 Ill.2d 506 (1976)

343 N.E.2d 453

UNITED PRIVATE DETECTIVE AND SECURITY ASSOCIATION, INC., et al., Appellants, v. THE CITY OF CHICAGO et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied March 25, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald L. Metzger and James L. Fletcher, of Chicago (Burditt and Calkins, of counsel), for appellants.

William R. Quinlan, Corporation Counsel, of Chicago (Daniel Pascale and Jerome A. Siegan, Assistants Corporation Counsel, Lee J. Schwartz, Special Assistant Corporation Counsel, and Jennifer Duncan (law student), of counsel), for appellees.


Reversed and remanded.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal concerns the power of the General Assembly to provide for the exclusive exercise by the State of a power of a home rule unit. We must consider sections 6(a), 6(g), 6(h) and 6(i) of article VII of the Constitution of 1970 in determining whether the City of Chicago has been barred by the General Assembly's action from regulating the operations or business of private...

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