Vision Church, United Methodist v. Village of Long Grove

RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.

In 2003, Vision Church, United Methodist (“Vision”) filed the present action against the Village of Long Grove, Illinois (“Village”); Vision alleged that the Village’s denial of Vision’s application for voluntary annexation, its involuntary annex ation of Vision’s property, its enactment of a municipal Public Assembly Ordinance, and its denial of Vision’s applications for a special use permit to build and occupy a church on real property it had purchased violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Religious Land Use and…