Vance v. City of Chicago

Plaintiff, Delores Vance, appeals from the entry of summary judgment under section 2—1005 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 110, par. 2—1005) in favor of defendant, the City of Chicago (city). We address the issue of whether the city owed a duty of care to plaintiff, who was injured when she fell in a pothole in the street after leaving a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus. For the following reasons, we affirm.

Plaintiff filed a complaint against the city and the CTA and alleged that on October 5, 1984, she was injured in the street when she fell after stepping off a…