Legal Opinion
Civil Liberties for Urban Believers, Christ Center, Christian Covenant Outreach Church v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 20, 2003No. 01-4030PublishedCited by 281 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
Appellants, an association of Chicago-area churches and five individual member churches thereof, appeal from the district court’s entry of summary judgment in favor of Appellee, the City of Chicago, on Appellants’ claims challenging the Chicago Zoning Ordinance (“CZO”), 17 Municipal Code Of Chioago, III., §§ 1-11, under the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (“RLUIPA”), 42 United States Code § 2000ce et seq., and the United States Constitution. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the decision of the district court.
BACKGROUND
The CZO broadly…
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