VINEYARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP OF EVANSTON, INC. v. CITY OF EVANSTON

No. 00 C 798.

250 F.Supp.2d 961 (2003)

VINEYARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP OF EVANSTON, INC., Plaintiff, v. CITY OF EVANSTON, a municipal corporation, Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

March 31, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Robert Sargis, Paul B. O'Flaherty, Jr., Christopher Jason Raistrick, Bellande, Cheely, O'Flaherty, Sargis & Ayers, Chicago, IL, for Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Evanston, Inc.

George James Sotos, Mary Therese Nagel, James E. Ryan, Patrick J. Solberg, Illinois Attorney General's Office, Chicago, IL, for People of State of Illinois.

Theodore C. Hirt, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Federal Programs Branch, Washington, DC, for U.S.A.

George James Sotos, Mary Therese Nagel, Illinois Attorney General's Office, Chicago, IL, Jack M. Siegel, Altheimer & Gray, Chicago, IL, for City of Evanston.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

PALLMEYER, District Judge.

Few principles are more venerable or more passionately held in American society than those of local control over land use and the right to assemble and worship where one chooses. On occasion, these principles conflict, and the right to assemble in a location of choice must be balanced against the need of a city to continue to grow economically, to provide adequate municipal services to its residents...

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