Stevens Hotel Co. v. Art Institute of Chicago

The Stevens Hotel Company, as an abutting property owner on Michigan avenue, fronting Grant Park, in Chicago, on February 8, 1929, filed its bill in the circuit court of Cook county for an injunction to restrain the Art Institute of Chicago and the South Park Commissioners, defendants, from making certain enlargements to the Art Institute building in Grant Park. The complainant claims that the proposed enlargements would violate the terms of the original grant between the Art Institute, the city of Chicago and the World’s Columbian Exposition, dated December 3, 1891, and would also infringe…