County of Cook v. Monat

The plaintiff County of Cook, a body politic corporate (the County), filed a complaint against defendants Allan Monat and Becky Monat for violating zoning ordinances by keeping two horses on their property in unincorporated Cook County and sought an injunction to prohibit defendants from keeping the horses on that property. In response, defendants raised an affirmative defense of a special use, which was granted to the previous owner of the property and which allowed him to continue boarding his horses. The circuit court granted summary judgment in the County’s favor, enjoined defendants from…