West Chicago Masonic Ass'n v. City of Chicago

Appellee filed in the superior court of Cook county its petition, making appellant and others defendants, praying the court to ascertain the just compensation to be paid for private property to be taken or damaged for the widening of West Randolph street from Halsted street to Sangamon street, by taking thirty-five feet from the abutting property on each side of the street .and making it one hundred and fifty feet wide instead of eighty, and to ascertain what property would be benefited by such improvement and the amount of such benefit.

West Randolph street for two blocksj from Desplaines…