Illinois Central Railroad v. City of Chicago

On the 27th of December, 1888, the president and trustees of the village of Hyde Park, a municipal corporation then existing, organized under the general City and Village act, adopted an ordinance for the opening and extension of Sixty-fourth street in the village, from the west line of Stony Island avenue to Woodlawn avenue, “and for such purposes the following described property be condemned and appropriated, to-wit: That part of the right of way of the Illinois Central Bailroad Company lying between the north and south lines of Sixty-fourth street extended west across said right of way…