O'BRIEN v. City of Chicago
Appellate Court of Illinois
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Schwartz
This is an appeal from a declaratory judgment against defendants, holding invalid the approval by the City Council of the City of Chicago of a plat of resubdivision establishing a church site at the southwest corner of 93rd street and Pleasant avenue, Chicago. Plaintiff owns and resides on property adjoining the proposed church site and seeks to prevent the construction of a church thereon.
The Church of the Holy Nativity, an Episcopal congregation, referred to hereafter as “defendant church, ’ ’ bought the property in question for the purpose of constructing a church building thereon. It is…
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