West Chicago Park Commissioners v. Sweet

Under the act to enable park commissioners to take, regulate, control and improve public streets leading to public parks, and to make and collect special assessments, the city of Chicago, by an ordinance passed and approved January 20, 1887, gave its consent that appellants should take, regulate, control and improve the center seventy feet of Twelfth street, from Ashland avenue west to its intersection with Ogden avenue, and thence on Ogden avenue to Douglas Park, in Chicago. This ordinance was passed in pursuance of a petition and consent of owners of frontage on said streets, and it was…