Lake County Forest Preserve District v. Frecska

This is an appeal by plaintiff, Lake County Forest Preserve District, from an order entered on a verdict which found the just compensation in a condemnation to be $30,000 for the taking and $10,000 for damages to the remainder. Plaintiff filed a petition to condemn a part of the subject property owned by defendant Laszlo Frecska et al., on July 5,1974; it is located in the village of Riverwoods, Lake County, Illinois, on the east side of Milwaukee Avenue, and is comprised of an 11-acre irregular shaped vacant piece of land zoned for single-family residential use with 91 feet of frontage on…