Brader v. City of Chicago

Defendant, the city of Chicago, appeals directly from a declaratory judgment entered in the circuit court of Cook County declaring the Chicago zoning ordinance void as applied to plaintiffs’ property. The trial judge has certified that the validity of a municipal ordinance is involved and that the public interest requires a direct appeal to this court, (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1961, chap, no, par. 7S(i)(c)) and, accordingly, this court has jurisdiction.

Defendant contends that plaintiffs have brought this action prematurely because they failed to exhaust all administrative and legislative local…