Gilligan v. Korzen

Plaintiffs, John E. Gilligan, Cook County School Bus, Inc., an Illinois corporation, and Prospect Heights Improvement Association, a not-for-profit corporation, “individually and in a representative capacity on behalf of all others similarly situated,” filed this action in the circuit court of Cook County naming as defendants Bernard Korzen, County Treasurer and Collector, and the County of Cook, and seeking a declaratory judgment that “an ordinance to provide for a wheel tax on motor vehicles in unincorporated areas of Cook County” was unconstitutional. The ordinance in question, approved…