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AMERICAN NAT. BANK & TRUST CO. v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 86-2131.

826 F.2d 1547 (1987)

AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK & TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee under Trust No. 33832, and Paxton Landfill Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF CHICAGO and Zoning Board of Appeals for the City of Chicago, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 13, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George P. McAndrews and Robert C. Ryan, Allegretti, Newitt, Witcoff & McAndrews, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Judson H. Miner, Corp. Counsel, Mary K. Rochford and Julie Elena Brown, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before CUMMINGS, WOOD and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

American National Bank, the trustee of a parcel of land in Chicago, applied for a zoning variance on behalf of Paxton Landfill Corp., the beneficial owner. The land has been zoned for "heavy manufacturing" since 1923 but has been a garbage dump for more than 50 years under a series of variances. Chicago's Zoning Board of Appeals has been using the zoning-and-variance device to establish a system of licensing for landfills. Variances for...

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