Chicago School Transit, Inc. v. City of Chicago

Plaintiffs are owners and operators of vehicles used in transporting children to and from schools of the city of Chicago. They filed this declaratory judgment action challenging the validity of chapter 28.2 of an ordinance of the city regulating privately owned school buses on the grounds that the city lacked statutory authority to pass the ordinance, that it purports to legislate in a field pre-empted by the State, and that it is class legislation in that it exempts carriers certified by the Illinois Commerce Commission and vehicles of the Chicago Transit Authority. This appeal is from a…