Gialloreto v. State of Illinois, Division of Highways

This is an action for property damages. Claimant alleges that respondent’s Division of Highways, in reconstructing an underground drainage sewer that crossed claimant’s residential property, demolished a retaining wall, damaged his garage, and destroyed certain trees and bushes on claimant’s premises, known as 705 N. First Avenue in Maywood.

Claimant’s lot, about an acre in size and triangular in shape, is bounded by First Avenue on the west (approximately 360 feet), Chicago Avenue on the south (approximately 200 feet), and the DesPlaines River on the northwest border, the lot line along the…