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SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS DEV. AUTH. v. AL-MUHAJIRUM

No. 5-03-0429.

809 N.E.2d 730 (2004)

348 Ill. App.3d 398

284 Ill.Dec. 164

SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, a Municipal Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Masjid AL-MUHAJIRUM, an Illinois Religious Corporation, Defendant-Appellant (St. Clair County Trustee, Union Planters Bank, f/k/a MidAmerica Bank & Trust Company of Edgemont, The Village of Sauget, and Unknown Owners, Defendants). Southwestern Illinois Development Authority, a Municipal Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ruth McGee, Defendant-Appellant (The County of St. Clair and Unknown Owners, Defendants).

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

April 16, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Merriwether, Jr., Merriwether & Associates, East St. Louis, IL, for Appellants.

Harry J. Sterling, Sterling & Dowling, Fairview Heights, IL, for Appellee.

Justice KUEHN delivered the opinion of the court:

A little more than three years ago, Emerson Park was an area of East St. Louis, Illinois, that suffered from the ravages of time and poverty, an area that testified graphically to the urban decay that can follow a mass exodus of commerce and jobs from a city. Many of its old houses had been condemned and torn down by city officials, leaving weeded and trashridden vacant lots. A few of its old residences stood as isolated...

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