Boytor v. City of Aurora

The plaintiff, Gerald Boytor, brought suit in the circuit court of Kane County requesting a declaratory judgment, injunctive relief, and personal damages against the defendants for alleged violations of the election laws. The trial court granted defendants’ pretrial motion to dismiss, the appellate court affirmed (70 Ill. App. 3d 303), and we granted leave to appeal. We affirm.

The series of events from which plaintiff’s alleged cause of action arises commenced in November of 1976 when the citizens of Aurora elected to adopt a mayoraldermanic form of municipal government in place of the…