Western Theological Seminary v. City of Evanston

The circuit court of Cook county having dismissed for want of equity, after sustaining a demurrer thereto, an amended bill for an injunction filed by the Western Theological Seminary against the city of Evanston, praying that a certain ordinance of the city approved April 1, 1925, be decreed to be invalid and that the city be restrained from enforcing or threatening to enforce the provisions of such ordinance, the complainant has appealed.

The bill averred that the city council of the city of Evanston adopted a zoning ordinance on January 19, 1921, which divided the city into five districts…