Chicago Bar Ass'n v. County of Cook

Plaintiffs, the Chicago Bar Association and four individual real estate taxpayers in Cook County brought the instant declaratory judgment action challenging the authority of the Cook County Board of Commissioners to enact an ordinance altering the Cook County Board of Appeals. The ordinance, enacted on June 6, 1983, added a third commissioner to the Cook County Board of Appeals, staggered the terms of the present two commissioners, changed the manner of election of the present commissioners from an at-large election to an election from the city of Chicago and from suburban Cook County…