County of Lake v. Gateway Houses Foundation, Inc.

The County of Lake and certain intervening property owners sought to enjoin the Gateway Houses Foundation, Inc., an Illinois not-for-profit corporation (Gateway), from allegedly operating a treatment center for drug addiction in violation of the Lake County zoning ordinance. The trial court found that the defendant’s use was not a treatment center for drug addiction but was a use permitted under the ordinance, and denied the injunction.

On appeal, the County contends that the defendant’s Lake Villa Gateway House facility is a center for the treatment of drug addiction within the meaning of the…