DuPont v. Sanitary District of Chicago

The amended petition of appellee, the Sanitary District of Chicago, filed in this case in the circuit court of Cook county, alleged that it had adopted a plan for deepening, widening and improving the south branch of the Chicago river to the uniform width of two hundred feet and a depth of thirty feet in the central portion of the channel, and that it would be necessary to acquire for such purposes four tracts adjoining the river, numbered 69, 70, 71 and 71a, being the parts of lot 1 in Pair-bank’s subdivision and of lots 1 and 2 in Morris & Johnson’s subdivision and of an unsubdivided tract,…