Mid-West Emery Freight System, Inc. v. City of Chicago

Plaintiffs filed a declaratory judgment action to change the zoning classification of plaintiffs’ property from its present Ml-1 Restricted Manufacturing classification to a C4 Motor Freight Terminal District, so as to permit the building of a refrigerated storage plant with loading docks. Fifty-four adjacent single-family residential owners were granted leave to intervene. The trial court entered judgment for the plaintiffs, finding that the existing zoning classification unreasonably restricted plaintiffs in the use of their property and was, therefore, void and unenforceable insofar as it…