La Salle National Bank v. City of Chicago

The defendant, City of Chicago, appeals from a declaratory judgment holding that the city’s zoning ordinance, as applied to the plaintiff’s property is unreasonable, arbitrary and void insofar as it restricts the development of the property to R-l single family residence district uses, and insofar as it prevents the development of the subject property for uses permitted in the R-7 general residence district of the zoning ordinance.

The issues here involved are the correctness of the judgment in holding the provisions of the applicable zoning ordinance void insofar as it applies to the subject…