ALLEN v. ILLINOIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE BD.

No. 5-99-0012.

734 N.E.2d 926 (2000)

315 Ill. App.3d 837

248 Ill.Dec. 635

Edna ALLEN, individually and in her capacity as a member of the Board of Trustees of Metropolitan Community College, and Gordon D. Bush, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ILLINOIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE BOARD, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

Motion to Publish Granted August 17, 2000.

Opinion Filed August 17, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Merriwether, Jr., East St. Louis, for Appellants.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, A. Benjamin Goldgar, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, for Appellee.


Justice HOPKINS delivered the opinion of the court:

This case stems from the formation and subsequent dissolution of an experimental community college district, which is now known as Metropolitan Community College (the College), pursuant to the Public Community College Act (the Act) (110 ILCS 805/1-1 et seq. (West 1998)). Edna Allen and Gordon D. Bush (plaintiffs) filed the complaint in their individual capacities as registered voters and taxpayers of the district...

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