City of Chicago v. Elmhurst National Bank

The Elmhurst National Bank, as trustee, owns, operates and controls two buildings on one lot at 1346 West Walton Street, Chicago. The three-story brick building on the front of the lot and the two-story frame building on the back of the lot have two apartments on each floor. One count of the City’s two-count complaint charged that the “defendant failed to provide an additional direct means of vertical egress” for the three rear apartments of the brick building, in violation of the city’s building Code. The second count made the same charge in reference to the. first floor rear apartment and…