Chicago Bar Ass'n v. County of Cook

Defendants (hereafter appellants) the County of Cook and Stanley T. Kusper, Jr., county clerk, appealed from the judgment of the circuit court of Cook County holding invalid Cook County Ordinance No. 115923, and enjoining the appellants and the defendants, individual members of the board of election commissioners of the city of Chicago, “from in any manner proceeding with reference to any election authorized or required by that ordinance.” The appellate court affirmed the judgment (124 Ill. App. 3d 355), and we allowed appellants’ petition for leave to appeal (87 Ill. 2d R. 315).

Ordinance No.…