Barrett v. City of Chicago

PRESIDING JUSTICE McCORMICK

delivered the opinion of the court.

A complaint was filed in the Circuit Court of Cook county by the plaintiffs, as taxpayers, against the City of Chicago and certain of its officers, and GrafeCallahan Construction Company, Tecon Corporation, Mittry Constructors and Johnson, Drake & Piper, Inc. (hereafter referred to as the Grafe group), to have declared illegal and void a contract entered into between the City of Chicago and the Grafe group for the construction of water tunnels and shafts constituting a part of the New Central District filtration plant to be erected…