A company is claiming Chicago City Hall won't let it build a metal recycling plant on the Southeast Side, because of improper political pressure from community activists
State appellate judges have taken the boot off a class action alleging the city skirted a state law capping municipal ordinance fines at $250 each, costing hundreds of thousands of people hundreds of millions of dollars
City can tow and keep cars only after obtaining 'final determinations of liability,' a judicial process, meaning the city can't just keep the cars of people who owe large amounts of unpaid parking and traffic tickets, and filed for bankruptcy protection
A federal judge said the city must still answer claims it violated car owners' constitutional property rights by towing "abandoned" cars, and then allegedly sold them to tow companies, often for scrap, before the owners had enough time to retrieve them.
The lawsuit has accused the city of Chicago of wrongly issuing at least 30,000 parking tickets with enhanced penalties for illegally parking in the city's downtown Central Business District, when they weren't parked in the District
Three state appellate justices have ruled a city permit allowing the Lyric Opera to use a storage vault under a sidewalk adjoining the Civic Opera House allows City Hall to pursue the Lyric and owners of the opera house for coverage in a lawsuit brought by a woman who tripped on that city sidewalk
Attorney Tom DeVore has filed suit on behalf of dozens of Chicago city workers, arguing Mayor Lori Lightfoot's vaccine-or-test mandate wasn't issued legally, and violates city workers' due process rights
A Cook County judge says the tech giant's complaint isn't legally specific enough at this point to be allowed to continue. He gave the company the chance to try again, if it wishes.
The lawsuit alleges the Chicago Police Department didn't honor a transfer request in March 2020 from a Chicago narcotics division officer who had cystic fibrosis and diabetes. He died from COVID at the end of March 2020.
In an appellate brief, the workers argued their rights to privacy and bodily autonomy to refuse a vaccine of questionable effectiveness, should be upheld under the same reasoning used by the U.S. Supreme Court to declare a constiutional right to abortion.
The lawsuit asserts the city of Chicago is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act and discriminating against the blind by failing to equip intersections with devices to communicate Walk/Don't Walk status to those with limited vision
A lawyer claimed the city's vaccine orders violated his constitutional rights and his contractual rights as a season ticket holder for the Chicago Bulls and Chicago Blackhawks, because he was blocked from using the tickets he had purchased at the beginning of the season, months before the vaccine order was issued.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot allegedly shouted she had 'biggest d*** in Chicago' and threatened to get the lawyer fired while berating him over a deal with Italian American group to begin resolving lawsuit vs Chicago Park District
The owners of the Southside Recycling metal recycling plant say the city's permit denial was motivated by politics, not science, and warned businesses from attempting to do business with the city, a "not reliable partner."
A group of Chicago and Cook County residents have sued the city and county, saying the vaccine passport orders deprive people of their rights without coming close to achieving their stated goals of reducing the spread of the omicron COVID variant