Helmig v. Regional Board of School Trustees of the La Salle County Educational Service Region

PRESIDING JUSTICE LYTTON

delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiffs filed a petition seeking detachment from Oglesby School District No. 125 (Oglesby) and annexation to Peru Elementary School District No. 124 (Peru) 14 weeks after the Regional Board of School Trustees of the La Salle County Educational Region (Board) denied a similar petition. The Board denied the second petition, and the petitioners appeal. We affirm.

John F. Kennedy School District No. 129 was dissolved in 1992, and the land in the district was annexed to Oglesby. A number of the affected landowners objected to this…