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  • Patton v. Village of Palestine

    304 Ill. 489 · Illinois Supreme Court · Oct 21, 1922

    (Village of Oak Park v. Galt, 231 Ill. 482 ; Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad Co. v. City of Chicago, 230 id. 9; Connecticut Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. City of Chicago, 217 id. 352.) … (City of Chicago v. Underwood, 258 Ill. 116 ; Lanphere v. City of Chicago, 212 id. 440; Walker v. City of Chicago, 202 id. 531; Gage v. City of Chicago, 225 id. 218.)

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Collins v. Woods

    63 Ill. 285 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jan 15, 1872

    Brown v. Pitney, 39 Ill. 468 .

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Crane Paper Stock Co. v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.

    63 Ill. 2d 61 · Illinois Supreme Court · Mar 18, 1976

    (Irvin v. Poe (4th Dist. 1974), 18 Ill. App. 3d 555 ; People ex rel. Department of Public Health v. Brown (5th Dist. 1968), 96 Ill. App. 2d 355 .) … Department of Public Health v. Brown (5th Dist. 1968), 96 Ill. App. 2d 355 ; Thomas v. Ritholz (1st Dist. 1941), 310 Ill. App. 166 .)

    Cited 52 timesPublished
  • Wright v. City of Chicago

    46 Ill. 44 · Illinois Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1867

    In the case of The City of Chicago v. … But that they are not a legitimate tax, but an equation between burden and benefit, has been constantly held in this state, from the case of The Canal Trustees v.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • People v. Whitehead

    466 Ill. Dec. 700 · Illinois Supreme Court · Mar 23, 2023

    Board of Education of Chicago v. Moore, 2021 IL 125785, ¶ 18 (statutory construction of a statute presents a question of law); Rozsavolgyi v. City of Aurora, 2017 IL 121048, ¶ 21; People v. … People v. Foster, 2022 IL App (2d) 200098, ¶ 44; see People v. Brown, 2019 IL App (1st) 161204, ¶ 48 (a battery “presents a greater threat to society when done in a public place”); People v.

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Thomson v. Industrial Commission

    380 Ill. 386 · Illinois Supreme Court · Sep 25, 1942

    National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. 301 U. S. 1 , 57 S. Ct. 615 ; Board of Trade v. Olsen, 262 U. S. 1 , 43 S. Ct. 470 , 67 L. ed. 839. … Chicago and Alton Railroad Co. v. Industrial Com. 290 Ill. 599 , and Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Co. v. Industrial Board, 273 id. 528.

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Greeley v. People ex rel. Raymond

    194 Ill. 550 · Illinois Supreme Court · Feb 21, 1902

    of the board of education did not receive a majority of the votes cast at the respective elections. … The questions here presented are identical with the questions presented and considered by this court in Gale v. Knopf, 193 Ill. 245 .

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  • Streams Sports Club, Ltd. v. Richmond

    99 Ill. 2d 182 · Illinois Supreme Court · Dec 16, 1983

    In Mathis v. … Supp. 765 ; Rodruck v. Sand Point Maintenance Com. (1956), 48 Wash. 2d 565 , 295 P.2d 714 ; Kell v.

    Cited 86 timesPublished
  • Wickett v. Town of Cicero

    152 Ill. 575 · Illinois Supreme Court · Oct 29, 1894

    The original ordinance was passed by the board of trustees of said town on December 5,1891, and the proceeding thereunder is known as Cicero Special No. 299. … The supplemental ordinance, known as Cicero Special No. 340, under which the present proceeding was conducted, was passed, by said board on October 29, 1892.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • People v. Crowe Name Plate & Manufacturing Co.

    357 Ill. 384 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 15, 1934

    (Moline Water Power Co. v. Cox, 252 Ill. 348 ; Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway Co. v. Johnson, 108 id. 11.) It does not appear that objection was made to the board of appeals. … (People v. Pullman Car Corp. 355 Ill. 438 ; Holt v. Hendee, 248 id. 288.)

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Ryan v. Lynch

    68 Ill. 160 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 15, 1873

    Clark v. Board of Supervisors of Hancock County, 27 Ill. 308 ; Johnson v. Stark County, 24 ib. 75; Schuyler County v. The People, 25 ib. 185; Board of Supervisors v. Weider, 64 Ill. 427 ; North v. … Spangler v. Jacoby, 14 Ill. 298 ; The People, etc. v. Starne, 35 ib. 121.

    Cited 18 timesPublished
  • The PEOPLE v. Dennis

    28 Ill. 2d 525 · Illinois Supreme Court · Sep 27, 1963

    Defendant also points out that Mathias Thies testified that the defendant had a white shirt and light brown pants and that Helen Thies testified that the defendant wore a sport shirt and dark pants. … People v. Evans, 23 Ill.2d 302, 305 . The indictment under which defendant was prosecuted stated the defendant’s name to be Dennis Giovanni.

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • McLean v. Dept. of Revenue

    Illinois Supreme Court · Oct 22, 1998

    See Brown's Furniture, Inc. v. Wagner , 171 Ill. 2d 410 (1996). Based on the foregoing, we hold that the circuit court misinterpreted section 130.1915. … The only authority cited by the majority for this proposition is Brown's Furniture, Inc. v. Wagner , 171 Ill. 2d 410 (1996) . Brown's Furniture does not even mention section 130.1915.

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  • Robertson v. Travelers Insurance Co.

    95 Ill. 2d 441 · Illinois Supreme Court · Apr 22, 1983

    Stat. 1973, ch. 48, par. 138.19(k)); this section, while applicable in cases of ordinary delay without justification (see, e.g., Board of Education v. Industrial Com. (1982), 93 Ill. 2d 20 ; Board of Education v. … Greenwalt v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (1955), 164 Ohio St. 1 , 128 N.E.2d 116 (tort alleged not specified, but probably intentional infliction of emotional distress); Hicks v. Board of Education (1979), 77 Ill.

    Cited 62 timesPublished
  • Farwell v. Adams

    112 Ill. 57 · Illinois Supreme Court · Nov 17, 1884

    In Benoit v. … In Pearson v.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • People ex rel. Wayman v. Steward

    249 Ill. 311 · Illinois Supreme Court · Feb 25, 1911

    to the other provision of the same article that no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to> give evidence against himself, were reviewed at considerable length by the Supreme Court of the United States in Boyd v. … S. 616 , where extensive quotations were made from the opinion of Lord Camden in Entick v. Carrington, 19 Howell’s St. Tr. 1029.

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • American Civil Liberties Union v. City of Chicago

    3 Ill. 2d 334 · Illinois Supreme Court · May 24, 1954

    See Commercial Pictures Corp. v. Board of Regents, 305 N.Y. 336 , 113 N.E. 2d 502 ; Broadway Angels, Inc. v. Wilson, 125 N.Y.S. 2d 546 ; cf. Hannegan v. Esquire, Inc., 327 U.S. 146 ; Winters v. … Gilchrist, 260 Fed. 564 ; City of Chicago v. Kirkland, 79 Fed. 2d 963; Commercial Pictures Corp. v. Board of Regents, 114 N.Y.S. 2d 561 , aff’d 305 N.Y. 336 , 113 N.E. 2d 502 .)

    Cited 53 timesPublished
  • People Ex Rel. Adams v. McKibben

    377 Ill. 22 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 17, 1941

    People v. Board of Review, 352 Ill. 157 . It is also a general rule in mandamus actions, that a demand may be dispensed with if to make it would be an idle or unavailing act. … Board of Comrs. v. New Mexico 215 U. S. 296 , 54 L. ed. 202; People v. Supervisor of Barnett, 91 Ill. 422 ; 38 Corpus Juris, 578.

    Cited 14 timesPublished
  • Martin v. Martin

    212 Ill. 301 · Illinois Supreme Court · Oct 24, 1904

    v. … This court cannot consider the evidentiary facts, but will consider and is bound only by the ultimate facts found by the Appellate Court, (Brown v.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • McCoy v. Union Elevated Railroad

    271 Ill. 490 · Illinois Supreme Court · Feb 16, 1916

    The same contention was made in Brand v. Union Elevated Railroad Co. 258 Ill. 133 , Geohegan v. Union Elevated Railroad Co. 258 id. 352, and Geohegan v. … In Geohegan v.

    Cited 5 timesPublished

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