LUTHERAN CHURCH OF GOOD SHEPHERD OF BOURBONNAIS v. DEPT. OF REVENUE

No. 3-00-0044.

737 N.E.2d 1075 (2000)

316 Ill. App.3d 828

250 Ill.Dec. 98

LUTHERAN CHURCH OF the GOOD SHEPHERD OF BOURBONNAIS, an Illinois Religious Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE OF the STATE OF ILLINOIS and the Kankakee County Board of Review, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District.

October 13, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory A. Deck (argued), Deck & Baron, Kankakee, for Lutheran Church of Good Shepherd of Bourbonnais.

James Ryan, Attorney General, Michael A. Rakov, Assistant Attorney General (argued), Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, Chicago, for Illinois Department of Revenue.

Michael Kick, State's Attorney, Brenda Gorski, Assistant State's Attorney, Kankakee, John X. Breslin, Deputy Director, State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Ottawa, David O. Edwards, Giffin, Winning, Cohen & Bodewes, P.C., Springfield, for Kankakee County Board of Review.


Presiding Justice SLATER delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiff, Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd of Bourbonnais (the Church), filed a complaint in the circuit court of Kankakee County for administrative review of a decision by the Department of Revenue of the State of Illinois (the Department). The Department denied a real estate tax exemption for two tracts of land owned by the Church. The circuit court initially reversed the Department's decision...

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