McKinnon v. City of Chicago

Paul Chisholm, Jr. (decedent), died in a cross-over collision on the Kennedy Expressway. Plaintiff Michael McKinnon, the executor of decedent’s estate, filed a wrongful death action and a survival action against the driver of the vehicle which collided with decedent’s vehicle and the defendant City of Chicago. The circuit court granted defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s cause of action with prejudice on the ground that defendant had no duty to install median barriers, and denied plaintiff’s subsequent motion to vacate the above dismissal. The circuit court also denied plaintiff’s…