Farrell v. West Chicago Park Commissioners

In Culver v. People ex rel. 161 Ill. 89, the ordinance of the corporate authorities of the town of West Chicago providing for the improvement of Douglas boulevard, adopted March 28, 1893, at the request of the West Chicago Park Commissioners, was declared to be void. The improvement contemplated by said void ordinance having been completed by the commissioners thereunder, said commissioners, on the fourteenth day of July, 1896, in pursuance of the provisions of section 20 of the act in force July 1, 1895, entitled “An act to enable park authorities to make local improvements,” etc., adopted…