Tiskilwa Economic Development Corp. v. Zoning Board of Appeals

PRESIDING JUSTICE SCOTT

delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, the zoning board of appeals of the village of Tiskilwa, and Forrest L. Morse and Ardis M. Morse, amici curiae, appeal from an order of the circuit court of Bureau County that reversed the board’s decision affirming the denial of plaintiffs’ building permit by the zoning enforcing officer of the village of Tiskilwa.

The board contends that the trial court’s order should be reversed because it did not have jurisdiction in prior proceedings to grant variances to the plaintiffs which would permit issuance of the building…