City of Chicago v. Galt

On June 19, 1905, the city of Chicago passed an ordinance providing that Clarendon avenue from Montrose avenue to Wilson avenue be improved by adjusting sewers, catch-basins and man-holes, curbing with limestone curbings, and filling and paving with slag and granite-top macadam, the whole cost of the improvement to be paid by special assessment, in accordance with the Local Improvement act. The width of the roadway of Clarendon avenue to be paved is fixed by the ordinance at 38 feet. Thereafter, on October 5, 1905, the city.of Chicago filed a petition in .the county court of Cook county…