Bojangles, Inc. v. City of Elmhurst

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE GUILD

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an interlocutory appeal by the defendant, City of Elmhurst, from several orders of the trial court culminating in, and including a temporary injunction enjoining the defendant from enforcing an ordinance, as applied to plaintiff, which prohibits the charging of an admission fee by certain classes of liquor licensees. The basic issue presented is whether the trial court erred in entering the orders appealed from.

The plaintiff, Bojangles, Inc., operates a business establishment which is commonly known as a discotheque in the…