La Salle National Bank v. Village of Skokie

This is a consolidation of two declaratory judgment actions in the circuit court of Cook County, one by the La Salle National Bank, the holder of legal title to seven lots as trustee for Old Orchard Town Homes, Inc., and the other by Old Orchard, the owner of the remaining seven lots in the west one-half of a block. By stipulation the fourteen lots comprise the “subject site.” The village appeals from a decree holding the village zoning ordinance void as applied to plaintiffs’ property and declaring that the owners may make any improvement permitted under an R-4 (multiple-dwelling)…