Ware v. The City of Chicago

This case appears before us on interlocutory appeal pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 308 (155 Ill. 2d R. 308), following the supreme court’s supervisory order directing this court to consider those questions certified by the circuit court in light of DeSmet v. County of Rock Island, 219 Ill. 2d 497 (2006).

As a result of the June 2003 Lincoln Park porch collapse, plaintiffs Jean Ware, as independent administrator of the estate of Kelly McKinnell, deceased, et al., filed the underlying consolidated negligence complaints against defendant City of Chicago. The circuit court denied the City’s…