Chicago Packing & Provision Co. v. City of Chicago

The city of Chicago adopted an ordinance prohibiting any person, company or corporation within the city, or within one mile of the city limits, from engaging in the business of slaughtering animals for food or packing them for market, or rendering the oifal, fat, bones or scraps thereof, or any dead animal matter whatever, or to manufacture fertilizers or glue, or the cleaning or rendering intestines, until they shall have obtained a license therefor. The second section prescribes the mode of applying for and the granting of such licenses, and fixes the sum to be paid therefor at $100 per…