Baksinski v. Corey

Plaintiff City of Chicago brought an action in the circuit court of Cook County to recover fees under the Sewer Revenue Fund Ordinance (Chicago Municipal Code §185.1 (1984)) from classes, inter alia, of educational and charitable institutions that allegedly had failed to pay properly assessed fees for use of the City’s sewer system. Defendants Northwestern University and the Young Men’s Christian Association of Metropolitan Chicago (YMCA) (hereafter, the defendants) were named both individually and as representative parties for the proposed educational and charitable institutional classes.…