Swim Club of Rockford, Ltd. v. City of Rockford

PRESIDING JUSTICE NASH

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, city of Rockford, appeals from a declaratory judgment granting the request by plaintiffs, Swim Club of Rockford, Inc., and John S. Combs, for authority to dispense alcoholic liquor on plaintiffs’ premises and declaring defendant’s zoning ordinance unconstitutional and void insofar as it denied such use of plaintiff’s property. The city of Rockford contends the trial court erred in overruling its legislative action denying a special-use permit as: (1) plaintiffs failed to establish the proposed special use would not endanger…