Grobman v. City of Des Plaines

This appeal by the plaintiff, Gerald Grobman, is from a judgment of the appellate court, with one judge dissenting (14 Ill. App. 3d 996), reversing a judgment of the circuit court of Cook County which declared a zoning ordinance of the defendant, the City of Des Plaines, unconstitutional as applied to a lot of the plaintiff.

On May 3, 1971, at a tax sale Gerald Grobman satisfied delinquent real estate taxes totalling $178.37 for the years 1967, 1968 and 1969 and obtained a tax deed to an unimproved lot in the City of Des Plaines. He subsequently paid $700 to satisfy a special assessment that…