CHICAGO NAT. L. BALL CLUB, INC. v. THOMPSON

No. 61630.

108 Ill.2d 357 (1985)

483 N.E.2d 1245

THE CHICAGO NATIONAL LEAGUE BALL CLUB, INC., Appellant, v. JAMES R. THOMPSON, Governor, et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed October 3, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don H. Reuben, William J. Campbell, Jr., Samuel Fifer, Steven A. Weiss and Eileen A. Kamerick, of Reuben & Proctor, of Chicago, and Lawrence Gunnells, of Chicago, for appellant.

James D. Montgomery, Corporation Counsel, of Chicago (Philip L. Bronstein, Mary K. Rochford and Lynn K. Mitchell, of counsel), for appellee City of Chicago.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield (Jill Wine-Banks, Solicitor General, and Michael J. Hayes and Russell R. Eggert, of Chicago, of counsel), for appellee Governor Thompson.

Alan R. Borlack, of Chicago (Malcolm H. Brooks, Stewart H. Diamond, Robert J. Krull and Richard M. Lipton, of counsel), for intervenor-appellee Lake View Citizens Council.


Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

The Chicago National League Ball Club, Inc., is a corporation which owns and operates the Chicago Cubs, the major league baseball team, and the Cubs' home ball park, Wrigley Field. On December 19, 1984, the corporation (the Cubs) filed a complaint in the circuit court of Cook County seeking a declaratory judgment that a 1982 amendment to the Environmental Protection Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983...

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