ROTI v. WASHINGTON

No. 86-1598.

148 Ill. App.3d 1006 (1986)

500 N.E.2d 463

FRED B. ROTI et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees and Cross-Appellants, v. HAROLD WASHINGTON et al., Defendants-Appellants and Cross-Appellees, (Jacqueline Vaughn et al., Defendants).

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (3rd Division).

Opinion filed October 15, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George F. Galland, Jr., of Davis, Barnhill & Galland, Albert C. Maule and Joseph F. Griffin, both of Hopkins & Sutter, and Michael W. McConnell, all of Chicago, for appellants.

William J. Harte, Jeffrey B. Whitt, and Joseph E. Tighe, all of William J. Harte, Ltd., of Chicago, for appellees.


Affirmed in part and vacated in part.

JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court:

On June 6, 1986, Alderman Evans of the city council of the city of Chicago proposed a four-part resolution to amend several of the rules of the city council and change the jurisdictions, memberships and chairmanships of the council committees. Following the council vote, Mayor Harold Washington declared that the resolution passed. Plaintiffs, 25 aldermen who voted against...

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