Zimmerman v. Village of Skokie

Docket No. 82893–Agenda 13–November 1997.

IRVING R. ZIMMERMAN, as Guardian for Scott E. Zimmerman, a Disabled Person, Appellee, v. THE VILLAGE OF SKOKIE et al. , Appellants.

Opinion filed June 18, 1998.

The “special duty” doctrine was first recognized by this court in Huey v. Town of Cicero , 41 Ill. 2d 361 (1968), as an exception to the common law “public duty” rule. The public duty rule is a long-standing precept which establishes that a governmental entity and its employees owe no duty of care to individual members of the general public to provide governmental services, such as police and…