Coughlin v. Chicago Park District

The superior court of Cook county awarded a writ of mandamus commanding the commissioners and the general superintendent of the Chicago Park District to issue a permit for the purpose of an address by the Reverend Charles E. Coughlin at Soldier Field in Burnham Park on August 21, 1935, or on some other convenient day thereafter, weather conditions permitting, as might be fixed by the defendants and ordering that the facilities of Soldier Field, including its equipment, lighting, use of the public address system, and police protection, be given the petitioners upon the same terms and at no…