Douglas v. Village of Melrose Park

Appellant filed, in the superior court of Cook county, her complaint against the village of Melrose Park and certain of its officers, seeking to restrain them from enforcing and threatening to enforce a certain zoning ordinance said to limit appellant’s property to “A” use, as defined in the ordinance.

The facts are brief and, for most part, not disputed. Appellant owns and has owned this real estate for a number of years. Prior to the enactment of a zoning ordinance by the village in 1924 there had been erected, on appellant’s property, a building known as a factory construction, the walls…