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  • Heyman Distributing Co. v. Industrial Commission

    376 Ill. 90 · Illinois Supreme Court · Feb 14, 1941

    Co. v. Industrial Com. 306 Ill. 11 ; Union Colliery Co. v. Industrial Com. 298 id. 561; Chicago Railways Co. v. Industrial Board, 276 id. 112; Republic Iron and Steel Co. v. Industrial Com. 302 id. 401.) … (Dietzen Co. v. Industrial Board, 279 Ill. 11 ; Newberry v. Industrial Com. 341 id. 554; Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. v. Industrial Com. supra; Atlas Linen Supply Co. v. Industrial Com. 348 Ill. 69 .)

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • People v. Melock

    149 Ill. 2d 423 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jul 30, 1992

    See People v. Brown (1990), 136 Ill. 2d 116, 124-25 ; Lucas, 132 Ill. 2d at 417 . … Brown v. Illinois (1975), 422 U.S. 590, 603 , 45 L. Ed. 2d 416, 427 , 95 S. Ct. 2254, 2261 ; People v. Hattery (1989), 183 Ill. App. 3d 785, 821 .

    Cited 200 timesPublished
  • Dineen v. City of Chicago

    125 Ill. 2d 248 · Illinois Supreme Court · Nov 21, 1988

    (See Resman v. Personnel Board (1981), 96 Ill. App. 3d 919, 922 .) … In Mueller v.

    Cited 44 timesPublished
  • Washburn v. Scott

    233 Ill. 569 · Illinois Supreme Court · Apr 23, 1908

    (Brown v. Minor, 128 Ill. 148 ; First Nat. Bank v. Baker, 161 id. 281 ; Allen v. Henn, 197 id. 486; King v. King, 215 id. 100.)

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Builders Supply & Lumber Co. v. City of Northlake

    21 Ill. 2d 14 · Illinois Supreme Court · Dec 1, 1960

    Trust Company of Chicago v. Village of Skokie, 408 Ill. 397 ; Speroni v. Board of Appeals of the City of Sterling, 368 Ill. 568 .) … (Speroni v. Board of Appeals of the City of Sterling, 368 Ill. 568 .) Only evidence upon these factors can so determine.

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Illinois Central Railroad v. Stewart

    265 Ill. 35 · Illinois Supreme Court · Oct 16, 1914

    (Schmidt v. Brown, 226 Ill. 590 .) Where the use is merely permissive by the owner it is not adverse and forms no basis upon which a right of way by prescription can rest. … (O’Connell v. Chicago Terminal Railroad Co. 184 Ill. 308 , and cases there cited.) An adverse right to an easement cannot grow out of a mere permissive enjoyment for any length of time. (City of Quincy v.

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • People Ex Rel. Curren v. Wood

    391 Ill. 237 · Illinois Supreme Court · Sep 19, 1945

    Counsel for appellant, on this issue of the case, cite Washingtonian Home v. City of Chicago, 157 Ill. 414 , Schuler v. Board of Education, 370 Ill. 107 , and Citizens Savings and Loan Ass’n v. … In the Schuler case the board of education sought to purchase a library from a certain private college, which library was, however, to remain in the possession of the college, and the board of education was to loan that college

    Cited 25 timesPublished
  • County of Cook Ex Rel. Rifkin v. Bear Stearns & Co.

    215 Ill. 2d 466 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 3, 2005

    Stroger, Jr., who was then the president of the Board of Commissioners of Cook County. … In Ingemunson v.

    Cited 26 timesPublished
  • People v. Prim

    53 Ill. 2d 62 · Illinois Supreme Court · Oct 2, 1972

    About 7 P.M. on November 22, 1968, defendant and the three co-defendants boarded a Chicago Transit Authority bus and took their positions in the various parts of the vehicle. … See United States v. Fioravant (4th cir. 1969), 412 F.2d 407 ; United States v. Brown (7th cir. 1969), 411 F.2d 930 ; State v. Thomas (1959), 86 Ariz. 161 , 342 P.2d 197 ; State v.

    Overruled on other grounds by People v. King, 66 Ill. 2d 551 (1977)Cited 507 timesPublished
  • New Staunton Coal Co. v. Industrial Commission

    307 Ill. 408 · Illinois Supreme Court · Feb 21, 1923

    (Bloomington, Decatur and Champaign Railroad Co. v. Industrial Board, 276 Ill. 454 ; Savoy Hotel Co. v. Industrial Board, 279 id. 329; Sparks Milling Co. v. Industrial Com. 293 id. 350.)

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Town of Sidney v. Wabash Railway Co.

    333 Ill. 126 · Illinois Supreme Court · Dec 20, 1928

    Wabash, Chester and Western Railroad Co. v. Commerce Com. 309 Ill. 412 ; Commerce Com. v. Omphghent Township, 326 id. 65. … (Commerce Com. v. Omphghent Township, supra.) The order of the commission should be set aside if the evidence in the record shows the order to be without substantial foundation. Commerce Com. v.

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • The People v. Furman

    26 Ill. 2d 334 · Illinois Supreme Court · Nov 30, 1962

    (People v. Picard, 284 Ill. 588, 592 ; People v. Pernalsky, 334 Ill. 38, 39 .) … Inasmuch as a school district is a quasi-municipal corporation (Leviton v. Board of Education, 374 Ill. 594, 600 ; Roumbos v.

    Cited 20 timesPublished
  • Clarke v. Village of Arlington Heights

    57 Ill. 2d 50 · Illinois Supreme Court · Mar 29, 1974

    In Kanellos v. … Hanrahan v.

    Cited 28 timesPublished
  • People ex rel. Stevenson v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

    266 Ill. 120 · Illinois Supreme Court · Dec 16, 1914

    The objection to the tax for State aid roads raises the question of the power of the county board to levy a tax to pay the county’s part of the construction of State ¿id roads. … This question has received the consideration of this court in the case of People v. Kankakee and Seneca Railroad Co. 265 Ill. 497 .

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Wheelock, Lovejoy & Co. v. Gill

    366 Ill. 378 · Illinois Supreme Court · Feb 12, 1937

    Fidelity Co. v. Board of Review , 264 Ill. 11 . No cases have been cited by appellee holding that credits owed by a resident to a non-resident and payable to such non-resident outside of this State are taxable here. … (Fidelity Co. v. Board of Review, supra.) In Western Union Telegraph Co. v.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • People v. Palmer

    450 Ill. Dec. 860 · Illinois Supreme Court · Apr 15, 2021

    Lu examined the shoes for blood and tested several reddish-brown stains on the shoes. … See Gaffney v. Board of Trustees of the Orland Fire Protection District, 2012 IL 110012, ¶ 56.

    Cited 30 timesPublished
  • National Zinc Co. v. Industrial Commission

    292 Ill. 598 · Illinois Supreme Court · Apr 21, 1920

    In McCagg v. … (Suburban Ice Co. v. Industrial Board, 274 Ill. 630 .) Section 19/ provided that the court might remand the cause to the Industrial Board for further proceedings and might state the questions requiring further hearing.

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • People Ex Rel. Shrout v. Wabash Railway Co.

    322 Ill. 185 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 16, 1926

    (Ure v. Ure, 223 Ill. 454 ; Miller v. Doran, 243 id. 200; People v. Bonham, 286 id. 286.) … So far as the evidence in this record shows, there is no valid judgment of ouster against the board of education of the district and no valid judgment declaring the district illegally organized, and the court properly overruled

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • La Grange State Bank v. County of Cook

    75 Ill. 2d 301 · Illinois Supreme Court · Apr 3, 1979

    JUSTICE CLARK, dissenting: I find it significant that the zoning board of appeals recommended approval of the special use permit, but the county board of commissioners, without opinion, did not. … (Columbus Park Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Inc. v. Chicago Board of Appeals (1962), 25 Ill. 2d 65, 70 .) Zoning laws implement that restraint, but are permitted only pursuant to the police power of the State.

    Cited 49 timesPublished
  • Lang v. Parks

    19 Ill. 2d 223 · Illinois Supreme Court · Mar 31, 1960

    Where a contract may be forfeited at a vendor’s option, it is not the default itself but rather the exercise of that option after default which serves to terminate the agreement (Brown v. … (Kingsley v. Roeder, 2 Ill.2d 131 ; Davies v. Dayton, 298 Ill. 201 ; Smith v. Treat, 234 Ill. 552 .)

    Cited 24 timesPublished

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