Exchange National Bank v. Village of Skokie

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE ENGLISH

delivered the opinion of the court.

Defendant appeals from a judgment declaring invalid, and restraining enforcement of, the Village Zoning Ordinance insofar as it classified plaintiff’s property as B-l (Neighborhood Shopping) and B-2 (Commercial), and thereby prevented its use for a combined automatic car wash, gasoline service station, accessory store and automobile diagnostic center.

The subject property (approximately 75,000 square feet in total area) fronts 180 feet on the west side of Skokie Boulevard, a six-lane primary arterial thoroughfare, just south of…