Ives v. City of Chicago

This is a chancery action brought by eight contractors upon behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated for a declaratory judgment that an ordinance of the city of Chicago licensing building contractors and a companion ordinance establishing a board of examiners of building contractors are invalid. The city appeals directly to this court from a decree holding the ordinances unconstitutional and void and directing the issuance of a permanent injunction to restrain their enforcement.

The ordinances in question were adopted November 1, 1961, and became effective January 1, 1962. The…