Chicago Land Clearance Commission v. Quinn Home Builders

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Cook County in an eminent domain proceeding under the Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947 as amended in 1949. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1953, chap. 67½, pars. 63-91.) The “blighted vacant area” in which the defendants’ property is located lies between West Seventy-seventh Street, South Western Avenue, West Seventy-ninth Street and South Rockwell Street, in the city of Chicago. It is the area that was before this court in People ex rel. Gutknecht v. City of Chicago, 414 Ill. 600.

Defendants do not attack the adequacy of the verdict returned…