Gale v. York Center Community Cooperative, Inc.

The principal question presented by this appeal is whether a co-operative housing association may partially restrain the alienability of its members’ property interests in order to maintain its existence as a co-operative enterprise. The circuit court of Du Page County held such restraints and all other portions of the written agreements between York Center Community Cooperative, Inc., a cooperative housing association, and the seven plaintiff families, members of the association, to be valid, and directed five of the plaintiff families to reconvey the properties they occupy to the…