Lurie v. Village of Skokie

Six adjacent landowners filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against the village and its president, seeking to declare various ordinances of the village unconstitutional, invalid, and void. The challenged ordinances were passed to permit the sale of certain municipal property to a developer for the construction of low-income housing for the elderly. The developer, Richard Stein, intervened as a defendant. The trial court granted partial summary judgment for defendants pursuant to section 57 of the Civil Practice Act. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 110, par. 57.) Five of the six…