Elmhurst National Bank v. City of Chicago

This is a direct appeal by the defendant city of Chicago from a declaratory decree entered by the circuit court of Cook County holding a city zoning ordinance unconstitutional as applied to certain property owned by plaintiff Elmhurst National Bank, as trustee. The constitutionality of this ordinance depends upon whether the residential classification of this property, which bars plaintiff’s proposed construction of a supermarket with a 70-car parking lot, is arbitrary and unreasonable.

The sequence of events appearing in the record shows that on December 28, 1956, plaintiff acquired title to…