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GENERAL AUTO SERVICE STATION v. CITY OF CHICAGO

Nos. 05-2515, 06-2672.

526 F.3d 991 (2008)

GENERAL AUTO SERVICE STATION, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 16, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Baltz (argued), Grey, Grey & Baltz, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Kerrie Maloney Laytin (argued), Mara S. Georges, Office of the Corporation, Counsel Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, Defendant-Appellee.

Before RIPPLE, ROVNER, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs-appellants are the owners and the agent of a building in Chicago that for more than four decades has displayed an advertising sign without a permit. Current zoning provisions prohibit the sign given its size and proximity to a residential district, but the plaintiffs contend that because the sign was lawful when first erected, they have a right to continue displaying the sign. After the...

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