PARAMOUNT MEDIA GROUP, INC. v. VILLAGE OF BELLWOOD

No. 17-1562.

929 F.3d 914 (2019)

PARAMOUNT MEDIA GROUP, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. VILLAGE OF BELLWOOD and Image Media Advertising, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 16, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald J. Broida , Attorney, Joseph K. Nichele , Attorney, Broida & Associates, Naperville, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Cory D. Anderson , Attorney, Rock Fusco & Connelly, LLC, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee Village of Bellwood, an Illinois municipal corporation.

John C. Gekas , Attorney, Hal R. Morris , Attorney, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee Image Media Advertising, Inc., an Illinois municipal corporation.

Before Ripple, Sykes, and Scudder, Circuit Judges.


In 2005 Paramount Media Group, Inc., leased a parcel of highway-adjacent property in the Village of Bellwood, Illinois, and planned to build a billboard on it. But Paramount never applied for a local permit. When the Village enacted a ban on new billboard permits in 2009, Paramount lost the opportunity to build its sign.

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