Anderson v. County of Jo Daviess

This appeal is brought by representatives of certain trade unions in Jo Daviess County from the judgment of the circuit court in an Administrative Review action.

Section 4 of the prevailing wage act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 48, par. 39s-4), relating to wages of employees on public works, provides in part as follows:

“The public body awarding any contract for public work" or otherwise undertaking any public works, shall ascertain the general prevailing rate of hourly wages in the locality in which the work is to be performed, for each craft or type of workman or mechanic needed to execute the…