Norton v. City of Chicago

We review once again a long-running dispute between plaintiffs and the lone remaining defendant, Cook County, about the legality of a $3 charge added to delinquent parking tickets in the City of Chicago between 1985 and 1986.

In an earlier appeal, we reviewed the trial court’s grant of defendant’s motion to dismiss against all defendants: the city, the county, and Datacom System Corporation. See Norton v. City of Chicago, 267 Ill. App. 3d 507, 642 N.E.2d 839 (1994) (Norton I). We first upheld the dismissal of the city and Datacom. We then reversed the trial court’s ruling that plaintiffs’ suit…