City of Rolling Meadows v. National Advertising Co.

PRESIDING JUSTICE LORENZ

delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a bench trial, judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff, the City of Rolling Meadows (city), enforcing a restrictive covenant which prohibited off-premise billboards in an industrial park. Defendants now appeal and raise the following issues: (1) whether a previous Federal court action involving the city’s zoning ordinance barred the present action as res judicata; (2) whether the issuance of permits to construct the billboards amounted to a vested property right; (3) whether the doctrine of laches prevented the city from…