County of Cook v. City of Chicago

The plaintiff in error brought its action of ejectment against the defendant in error to recover the west half of block 39, in the original town of Chicago. Block 39 was, with other lands, donated to the State of Illinois by the United States for the purpose of aiding in the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, under and by virtue of an act of Congress approved March 2, 1827, entitled “An act to grant a quantity of land to the State of Illinois for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of the Illinois river with those of Lake Michigan.” The title to the…