Kuehner v. City of Freeport
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of Stephenson county; the Hon. Geoege Wole, Judge, presiding. The city council of the city of Freeport passed an ordinance providing for the grading, curbing and paving of parts of certain streets of the city.
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Appeal from the County Court of Stephenson county; the Hon. Geoege Wole, Judge, presiding. The city council of the city of Freeport passed an ordinance providing for the grading, curbing and paving of parts of certain streets of the city. The cost of making the contemplated improvement was provided for by the third section of the ordinance, as follows: “Sec. 3. That the cost of the local improvement contemplated by this ordinance, together with the cost of making, levying and collecting the cost of such local improvement, shall be made and paid as follows: The city of Freeport shall pay from…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shope
• The city of Freeport is organized under the general law for the incorporation of cities and villages, (Rev. Stat. chap. 24,) and is invested with the powers therein prescribed. The qúestion presented by this record, and regarded as controlling, is, whether a city or village, under that act, may combine, in making a single improvement, special taxation and special assessment.
Section 1, article 9, of the general Incorporation act, confers power upon the corporate authorities of cities and villages to make “local improvements by special assessment or by special taxation, or both, of contiguous…
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