National Boulevard Bank v. City of Chicago

This was an action for a declaratory judgment seeking to void and hold unconstitutional a portion of the City of Chicago Zoning Ordinance as it applied to the subject property, and to allow plaintiff to construct on the subject property apartment buildings of a greater density than that allowed by the Ordinance. The trial court granted the relief requested in the complaint and defendant appeals, contending, inter alla, that the plaintiff failed to exhaust the local remedies provided for in the Ordinance before challenging its constitutionality in court.

The instant complaint was filed on July…