IN RE ANNEXATION TO CITY OF JOLIET

Nos. 3-95-0924, 3-95-0950.

668 N.E.2d 1073 (1996)

282 Ill. App.3d 684

218 Ill.Dec. 241

In re PETITION FOR SUBMITTAL OF the QUESTION OF ANNEXATION TO the CORPORATE AUTHORITIES OF the CITY OF JOLIET (Richard J. Kennedy, et al., Petitioners-Appellants, v. Amerifed Federal Savings Bank, as Trustee, Objector-Appellee (City of Joliet, an Illinois Municipal Corporation, Intervenor-Appellant)).

Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District.

July 15, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel L. Kennedy (argued), Joliet, for Jennifer L. Cote, Robert Cote, George C. Johnson, Jr., Daniel L. Kennedy, Raymond J. Kennedy, Richard J. Kennedy, Virginia Kennedy, Raynice Kennedy Topoloski, Raymond J. Kennedy, III, Raymond J. Kennedy, Jr., Elene K. Passas, Helen Passas, James Passas, Marge M. Passas, Marina Passas, Peter Passas, Steve G. Passas, Anne M. Peceniak, George R. Peterson, Rayene J. Peterson, Sophie Ann Peterson, Elizabeth Price, Glenn L. Schedeen, Lillian J. Schedeen, Donald Siefert, Dorothy Siefert, John F. Tezak, Suzanne Tezak, Marietta O. Walsh, Lawrence J. Williams.

Thomas A. Thanas, City Legal Department, Jeffrey Plyman (argued), Assistant Corporation Counsel, City of Joliet, Joliet, for City of Joliet.

Thomas J. Gilbert, Gilbert & Schoenstedt, Christian G. Spesia, Douglas F. Spesia (argued), Spesia, Ayers, Ardaugh & Wunderlich, Joliet, for Amerifed Federal Savings Bank.

Steven Troy, Mason, Orloff, Reich, Troy & Thanas, Joliet.


Justice McCUSKEY delivered the opinion of the court:

The petitioners, alleged to be a majority of the landowners of an approximately 1,000 acre tract of land and a majority of the electors residing on the property, filed a petition seeking to annex the property to the City of Joliet (City). The City was allowed to intervene in the action, and various objections were filed. Approximately five years after the petition was filed, the trial court dismissed the petition...

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