La Salle National Bank v. Village of Western Springs

A declaratory judgment was entered by the circuit court of Cook County finding that the R-i (single family residential) classification of plaintiff’s property rendered the zoning ordinance of the village of Western Springs void as applied to such property. The trial judge certified that the validity of a municipal ordinance was involved and that the public interest requires a direct appeal to this court.

The property involved consists of two vacant parcels. Parcel 1 comprises 6 lots of a depth of 185 feet and 100 feet of frontage each on Commonwealth Avenue to the west and abuts on Flag Creek…