INDEPENDENT VOTERS OF ILLINOIS v. AHMAD

No. 1-12-3629.

13 N.E.3d 251 (2014)

2014 IL App (1st) 123629

382 Ill. Dec. 838

INDEPENDENT VOTERS OF ILLINOIS INDEPENDENT PRECINCT ORGANIZATION, and Aviva Patt, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Amer AHMAD, Comptroller of the City of Chicago, and Chicago Parking Meters, LLC, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Sixth Division.

June 20, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Krislov & Associates, Ltd. ( Clinton A. Krislov and John Orellana , of counsel), and Depres Schwartz & Geoghegan, Ltd. ( Thomas H. Geoghegan and Mike Persoon , of counsel), both of Chicago, for appellants.

Mara S. Georges , Corporation Counsel, of Chicago ( Benna Ruth Solomon , Myriam Zreczny Kasper , and Julian N. Henriques, Jr. , Assistant Corporation Counsel, of counsel), for appellee Amer Ahmad.

Winston & Strawn, LLP, of Chicago ( Robert Y. Sperling , Bryna J. Dahlin , and Christopher J. Letkewicz , of counsel), and Winston & Strawn, LLP, of Washington, D.C. ( Elizabeth P. Papez , pro hac vice, for appellee Chicago Parking Meters, LLC.


OPINION

Presiding Justice ROCHFORD delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

¶ 1 This is a taxpayer challenge to the City of Chicago's (the City) concession agreement with Chicago Parking Meters, LLC (CPM), pursuant to which the City transferred to CPM its metered parking system and all revenue produced from the parking meters for 75 years, in exchange for a one-time payment of $1,156,500,000. The circuit court dismissed certain of plaintiffs...

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