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CHICAGO ASS'N OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY v. RTA

No. 55047.

86 Ill.2d 179 (1981)

427 N.E.2d 153

THE CHICAGO ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY et al., Appellees and Cross-Appellants, v. THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY et al., Appellants and Cross-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Announced June 11, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Munson, Roger L. Taylor, and Kathleen Kelly Spear, of Kirkland & Ellis, and Carl J. Frank, all of Chicago, for appellant.

Ross, Hardies, O'Keefe, Babcock & Parsons, of Chicago (Clifford L. Weaver, Barbara Baran, Claudia J. Lovelette, and Susan B. Harmon, of counsel), for appellee.

Robert L. Graham and Douglass W. Cassel, Jr., of Chicago, for amici curiae Chicago Council of Lawyers and Business and Professional People for the Public Interest.

Order reversed.

MR. JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendants, the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) and its chairman and directors, filed a motion for direct appeal to this court from an order of the circuit court of Cook County issuing a writ of mandamus "to adopt and promptly implement a policy to provide adequate public transportation in the six county area" and "to consider and decide upon the proper and specific course...

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