Northwest Water Commission v. Carlo v. Santucci, Inc.

PRESIDING JUSTICE SCARIANO

delivered the opinion of the court:

The Northwest Water Commission (the Commission), a municipal corporation, was created in 1979 pursuant to the Municipal Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 24, par. 11 — 135—1 et seq.), for the purpose of constructing a water pipeline from Lake Michigan to its member communities of Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Palatine, and Wheeling. On March 17, 1983, the Commission contracted with Carlo V. Santucci, Inc. (Santucci), a party to each of the consolidated actions below but not to this appeal, to provide underground excavation for…