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- Title: People Ex Rel. v. City of Chicago
- Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
- Release Date : January 17, 1954
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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After a trial, the circuit court of Cook County dismissed a petition which sought a declaration that the zoning ordinance
of the city of Chicago as amended on December 3, 1942, was void in its application to the property of the plaintiff, Alco
Deree Company, and a writ of mandamus to compel the issuance of a building permit allowing the company to construct a two-story
brick building on its property. The plaintiff appeals directly, the trial judge having certified that the validity of a municipal
ordinance is involved and that, in his opinion, the public interest requires a direct appeal. Plaintiff is engaged in the steel fabricating business and manufactures transmissions for washing machines, refrigerators
and candy vending machines. It owns a parcel of real estate at the northwest corner of California Avenue and Cullom Avenue,
(4300 North) in Chicago, improved by a two-story building consisting of two floors and a partial basement. The building, erected
in 1924 or 1925, extends 150 feet on California Avenue and 125 feet on Cullom Avenue. Plaintiff purchased the building in
1945, and in the following year moved its business from another location to its present site. The president of the company
testified that the purchase price was $12,000 or $14,000. In 1946, plaintiff acquired the property here involved, which lies
directly across the street to the south at the southwest corner of California and Cullom avenues. This parcel has a frontage
of approximately 222 feet on California Avenue and a depth of approximately 126 feet to a public alley sixteen feet wide midway
between California Avenue and Mozart Street, the next north and south street to the west. At the time the petition for mandamus
was filed, this property was vacant except for a small one-story building at the northwest corner having a frontage of twenty-one
feet on Cullom Avenue and extending south approximately forty-two feet. That building was then being used by plaintiff for
the storage of tools, dies and metals in connection with its business conducted in its main plant across the street, and had
been so used since its purchase in 1946. Plaintiff alleged that it intended to wreck the small building and to erect a modern
two-story building to be used for offices, metal processing and a storage warehouse for raw materials awaiting processing
in its business. Replacement value of the small building was estimated at $4000.