Legal Opinion
Immanuel Baptist Church v. City of Chi.
District Court, E.D. Illinois
Decided September 26, 2018No. 17 C 00932PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
John J. Tharp, Jr., United States District Judge
The Court's prior opinion in this case addressed the question "when is a church like a library?" Now the Court must address a more narrow question: "When is *981this church like that library?" The answer might be: "when it comes to parking." Immanuel Baptist Church's original Complaint against the City of Chicago failed because it did not adequately allege that the City's parking requirements for religious and secular assemblies are facially unequal in violation of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act ("RLUIPA"), 42 U.S.C. §…
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