BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS v. COUNTY OF DU PAGE

No. 57184.

96 Ill.2d 378 (1983)

450 N.E.2d 332

THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE WOOD DALE PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT et al., Appellees, v. THE COUNTY OF DU PAGE et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed May 27, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuelson, Knickerbocker & Schirott, of Des Plaines, and James R. Schirott and John T. Elsner, of Schirott & Elsner, of Itasca, for appellants.

Barry L. Moss and George A. Marchetti, of Moss and Bloomberg, Ltd., of Bolingbrook, for appellees.

Botti, Marinaccio & Maksym, Ltd., of Oak Brook (Aldo E. Botti and Walter P. Maksym, Jr., of counsel), for amicus curiae Urban Counties Council of Illinois.

Nathan M. Cohen, Robert M. Sarnoff, Michael F. Baccash, and Leonard Saphire-Bernstein, of Arvey, Hodes, Costello & Burman, of Chicago, for amicus curiae Board of Trustees of Community College District No. 508.

Thomas W. Kelty and Frank M. Pfeifer, of Pfeifer & Kelty, P.C., James C. Craven, of James C. Craven, P.C., and Thomas F. Londrigan, of Londrigan & Potter, P.C., all of Springfield; Louis Vitullo, of Friedman & Koven, of Chicago; and Paul C. Verticchio, of Verticchio & Verticchio, of Gillespie, for amici curiae Illinois Municipal League et al.

Stanley Garber, Corporation Counsel, of Chicago (Jerome A. Siegan and Philip L. Bronstein, Assistant Corporation Counsel, of counsel), for amicus curiae City of Chicago.


Affirmed and remanded.

JUSTICE GOLDENHERSH delivered the opinion of the court:

The board of library trustees of the Wood Dale Public Library District, and the library district, a municipal corporation, on its own relation and on behalf of all municipal corporations and other local governmental bodies similarly situated, filed a two-count complaint in the circuit court of Du Page County against defendants, the County of Du Page, its board of commissioners and...

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