Legal Opinion
Immanuel Baptist Church v. City of Chi.
District Court, E.D. Illinois
Decided September 22, 2017No. 17 C 00932PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
John J. Tharp, Jr., United States District Judge
This case presents the question: "When is a church like a library?" When it comes to parking needs, the City of Chicago says, "Never." But the Immanuel Baptist Church, the plaintiff in this case, says its parking needs are no different than those of a library. The Church brought this lawsuit against the City after it was unable to purchase a building in which to hold its services because City zoning requirements require the Church to have off-street parking that the property did not offer. Libraries of comparable size, by contrast, require *673no…
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3Cited by6 opinions
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