Legal Opinion
Cahnmann v. Eckerty
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided July 22, 1976No. 13060PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Simkins
The facts of this case are simply stated. Plaintiff Cahnmann resided in Urbana from September 1971, until March 1973. After a year of study overseas, he moved to Champaign in August 1973. In August of 1974, he moved back to Urbana. In December he filed nomination papers to run as alderman but a Municipal Officers Electoral Board declared him ineligible because he did not meet the one-year residency requirement of section 3 — 14—1 of the Municipal Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 24, par. 3 — 14—1). The circuit court affirmed. Plaintiff argues that the residency requirement violates the Equal…
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