City of Chicago v. Lord

On April 7, 1911, the city of Chicago, appellee, filed a petition in the superior court of Cook county setting forth that on April 5, 1911, the city council of said city passed an ordinance providing that East and West Twelfth street be-widened and improved from South Michigan avenue to South Ashland avenue, in said city. The petition described the lots, blocks and parcels of land along said street which will be taken or damaged for said improvement, and to it was attached a copy of the ordinance. Appellee prayed that proper steps might be taken to ascertain the just compensation to be made…