Brooks v. Illinois Central Railroad

Counterplaintiff Canadian National/Illinois Central Railroad Company (Illinois Central) brings this interlocutory appeal seeking reversal of the circuit court’s grant of counterdefendant Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation/Metra/Metropolitan Rail’s (Metra) motion to dismiss Illinois Central’s counterclaim for contribution. The circuit court certified the following issue on appeal: whether the one-year statute of limitations under the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act (Tort Immunity Act) (745 ILCS 10/8 — 101 (West 2002)), or whether the…