La Salle National Bank v. City of Chicago

The city of Chicago appeals from a declaratory judgment of the circuit court of Cook County, holding an amendatory zoning ordinance adopted in 1942 unconstitution and void insofar as it affects certain property owned by plaintiffs, La Salle National Bank of Chicago, as trustee, and Benjamin I. Simpson and Isalc Gustafson as beneficiaries.

The propeily consists of a vacant lot situated at the southwest corner of Sixty-seventh Street and Oglesby Avenue in the city of Chicago, having a frontage of 245 feet along Sixty-seventh Street and a depth of 150 feet along Oglesby Avenue. Plaintiffs desire…