Playboy Hotel of Chicago, Inc. v. City of Chicago

This appeal raises the question of whether the circuit court correctly held that plaintiff’s blackjack tables are gambling devices prohibited by Illinois law, and therefore properly dismissed plaintiff’s complaint for failure to state a claim for the relief sought.

In reviewing an order of a trial court dismissing a complaint for failure to state a cause of action, this court must accept as true all well-pleaded facts in the complaint, and all reasonable inferences flowing therefrom. (Samuels v. Checker Taxi Co. (1978), 65 Ill. App. 3d 63, 382 N.E.2d 424.) Accordingly, a review of the facts…