Legal Opinion
Richard Graff v. City of Chicago, an Illinois Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 24, 1993No. 92-2352PublishedCited by 145 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
For nearly seventy years a newsstand has stood in front of the City of Chicago Cultural Center (formerly the Chicago Public Library). The plaintiff, Richard Graff, has operated his newsstand there since July 1984, when he purchased the stand for over fifty thousand dollars. This case concerns a City of Chicago municipal ordinance designed to force newsstand operators, such as Graff, to either acquire a permit or face eviction. Chicago threatened to remove Graff from his location. Rather than request a permit, Graff ultimately sought relief in the federal district court,…
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