Herrington v. County of Peoria

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Peoria County in an action for a declaratory judgment, filed by the plaintiffs-appellants who sought to have an amendatory zoning ordinance declared void for failure to comply with section 3158 of chapter 34, Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969.

The Defendants, Doris Dixon and Geraldine Dixon James, obtained options to purchase property on which they intended to build an automobile race track. The property, which was zoned for agricultural use, adjacent to the Brimfield interchange of Interstate Route 74 in Peoria County. To the east of the property…