Cosmopolitan National Bank v. City of Chicago

This appeal, duly certified to us by the trial court, is taken from a decree of the circuit court of Cook County which held that an amendatory zoning ordinance passed by the city of Chicago was void in its entirety and ordered it set aside as a cloud on the title to premises owned by the plaintiffs. In addition, the decree found that the zoning classification sought to be imposed by the amendatory ordinance was unconstitutional as applied to plaintiffs’ property and permanently enjoined the city from enforcing such ordinance or any subsequent ordinance which would prohibit the use of…