Village of Glendale Heights v. Glen Ayre Enterprises, Inc.

Defendants and counterplaintiffs, Glen Ayre Enterprises, Inc., and its president, Albert Schneider, appeal from the trial court’s judgment in favor of plaintiff and counterdefendant, the Village of Glendale Heights, on plaintiff’s complaint seeking relief for zoning ordinance violations on defendants’ property. On appeal, defendants argue that the trial court erred in refusing to consider their affirmative defense that the property should not be subject to plaintiff’s ordinances, because the property was never validly annexed into the Village of Glendale Heights. For the reasons that follow,…