CHICAGO BAR ASS'N v. COUNTY OF COOK

No. 84-890.

124 Ill. App.3d 355 (1984)

464 N.E.2d 728

THE CHICAGO BAR ASSOCIATION et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. THE COUNTY OF COOK et al., Defendants-Appellants (Michael E. Lavelle et al., Defendants).

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (1st Division).

Opinion filed May 17, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Jane Clark Casey, Henry A. Hauser, and Susan Condon, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellants.

Kevin M. Forde, Chester R. Davis, Arnold Flamm, Michael Padden, Sharon Finegan Patterson, James C. Spangler, and John F. McCarthy, all of Chicago, for appellees.


Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE CAMPBELL delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs, the Chicago Bar Association and four individual real estate taxpayers in Cook County brought the instant declaratory judgment action challenging the authority of the Cook County Board of Commissioners to enact an ordinance altering the Cook County Board of Appeals. The ordinance, enacted on June 6, 1983, added a third commissioner to the Cook County Board of Appeals, staggered...

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