Fay v. City of Chicago

The City of Chicago appeals from a judgment of the Cook County circuit court declaring invalid the City’s R3 General Residence District zoning classification as applied to plaintiffs’ property, and permitting the construction of a nine-unit apartment building thereon. For the reasons stated below we affirm.

Plaintiffs purchased the subject property in July 1976 for *46,000, a sum which they knew at the time of purchase exceeded the value of the property as zoned by *9,000. The present action was commenced by plaintiffs approximately one month after they purchased the property. The use proposed by…