City of Chicago v. Koff

This is an appeal to review a judgment for an award made by a jury in the superior court of Cook county for the taking of the property of appellant in a proceeding for the widening of Western avenue between Fullerton and North avenues, in the city of Chicago.

Appellant’s property consists of a tract of land almost triangular in shape, the west line of which is fifty feet in length and abuts on the east line of Western avenue. The northeasterly line extends from the north end of the west boundary of the tract in a southeasterly direction along the southwesterly boundary of the right of way of…