West Chicago Park Commissioners v. Boal

This proceeding was instituted in the circuit court oCook county by West Chicago Park Commissioners to ascertain the compensation to be paid for one hundred lots in Enos Ayres’ subdivision of block 27 of the canal trustees’ subdivision, bounded by Chicago avenue, Noble, Cornell and Chase streets and intersected by Fry street, in the city of Chicago, to be devoted to public use as a small park. The fee simple title to all the lots was in Henrietta A. Boal, and they were practically covered with buildings of the cheaper sort, occupied, with very few exceptions, by Poles who could not speak…