RICHARDSON v. MULCAHEY

No. 3-93-0976.

637 N.E.2d 1217 (1994)

265 Ill.App.3d 123

202 Ill.Dec. 481

Michael D. RICHARDSON, Intervening Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Paul MULCAHEY, Plaintiff, Richard "Dick" Leibovitz, Defendant-Appellee, and Eugene R. Johnston, William M. Smith, Bess Meersman, Myrtle Pat Johnson, Harold Ford, Phil Banaszek and Bob DeJaegher, Intervenors.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District.

July 15, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dean L. Sutton, Lytton, Lytton & Sutton, East Moline, Mathias W. Delort, Odelson & Sterk, Evergreen Park, for Michael D. Richardson.

Dennis M. Faust, Kathleen Bailey, Asst. State's Attys., Rock Island, for Richard "Dick" Leibovitz, County Clerk.

Stuart R. Lefstein, John F. Doak, Katz, McAndrews, Balch, Lefstein & Fieweger, P.C., Rock Island, for William Smith, Bess Meersman, Myrtle Pat Johnson, Harold Ford and Phil Banaszek.

Thomas L. Kilbride, Rock Island, for Bob DeJaegher and Eugene R. Johnston.


Justice McLAREN delivered the opinion of the court:

Michael D. Richardson, as the intervening plaintiff, appeals the ruling of the circuit court of Rock Island County that a State statute under which a referendum was held in Rock Island County is constitutional. We affirm.

In November 1992, Rock Island County held a referendum in which the voters were asked the following question:

"Shall the County of Rock Island adopt the county executive form of...

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