Harris Bank v. County of Kendall

Defendant, the County of Kendall, appeals from a declaratory judgment which decreed that a zoning ordinance was void and invalid and enjoined defendant from enforcing the zoning ordinance. The zoning ordinance denied plaintiff’s petition to rezone land it owned in Kendall County from agricultural to residential zoning. On appeal, defendant contends that the declaratory judgment was against the manifest weight of the evidence. We affirm.

In April 1989, plaintiff, Harris Bank of Hinsdale, as trustee of a land trust, purchased a farm consisting of approximately 330 acres (the land) in Kendall…