People Ex Rel. Adamowski v. Chicago Land Clearance Commission

The State’s Attorney of Cook County brought a quo warranto action in the circuit court of Cook County against the Chicago Land Clearance Commission, challenging the validity of the 1955 amendments' to the Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1955, chap. 67Yz, par. 63 et seq.) It is charged in the complaint that the Commission acting under the authority of said amendments is expending public funds in making surveys and developing plans for open lands described as “blighted” to be developed for industrial use, or for other than residential use; and that the act, insofar as…