Liberty National Bank v. City of Chicago

The plaintiff bank, as trustee, and the individual plaintiffs, as beneficiaries of the trust, brought an action in the circuit court of Cook County against the defendant, the city of Chicago, asking the court to declare invalid the city’s amendatory zoning ordinance of December 3, 1942, insofar as it rezoned plaintiffs’ property from commercial to single-family residence use, and to restrain the enforcement of the provisions of the ordinance in question as to plaintiffs and their property.

The complaint also sought permission for the erection of a two-story building which would have two…