Heaney v. Northeast Park District

In the spring of 1929 a petition for the formation of the Northeast Park District of Evanston was filed pursuant to the act of the General Assembly entitled, “An act to provide for the organization of park districts and the transfer of submerged lands to those bordering on navigable bodies of water,” approved June 28, 1895, in force July 1, 1895, as amended. (Cahill’s Stat. 1931, chap. 105, par. 295.) Pursuant to this petition, which was for the formation of the district and for placing the names of certain persons on the ballots as candidates for commissioners, the county judge of Cook…