City of Chicago v. Arnold

This is an appeal from the judgment of the circuit court of Cook county sustaining certain legal objections and dismissing a petition for condemnation to widen Stony Island avenue from East Sixty-seventh street to East Sixty-ninth place extended, in the city of Chicago, the proposed improvement to be paid for by special assessment.

Stony Island avenue north of Sixty-seventh street is 66 feet wide, forming the western boundary of Jackson Park. At Sixty-seventh street (the southern boundary of Jackson Park) it is now ioo feet wide, continuing at that width to Sixty-ninth street, where it is 150…