KELLY v. VILLAGE OF KENILWORTH

No. 1-17-0780.

156 N.E.3d 480 (2019)

2019 IL App (1st) 170780

John Q. KELLY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The VILLAGE OF KENILWORTH, the Illinois State Police, the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, and the Cook County Medical Examiner, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.

Rehearing denied July 22, 2019.

Modified opinion filed July 26, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew V. Topic and Joshua Hart Burday , of Loevy & Loevy, of Chicago, for appellant.

Barbara A. Adams , Christopher J. Murdoch , and Benjamin L. Schuster , of Holland & Knight LLP, of Chicago, for appellee Village of Kenilworth.

Kwame Raoul , Attorney General, of Chicago ( David L. Franklin , Solicitor General, and Linda Boachie-Ansah , Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for appellee Illinois State Police.

Kimberly M. Foxx , State's Attorney, of Chicago ( Kent S. Ray , Cristin Duffy , and Hailey M. Golds , Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for other appellees.


OPINION

¶ 1 In 1966, 21-year-old Valerie Percy was murdered at her home in the Village of Kenilworth (Kenilworth). Her murder remains unsolved. As the fiftieth anniversary of her death approached, plaintiff, John Q. Kelly, filed requests under the Illinois Freedom...

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