City of Chicago Heights v. Living Word Outreach Full Gospel Church & Ministries, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• stating special uses require “a local legislative determination that the use *** is neither inconsistent with the public’s health, safety, morals or general welfare, nor out of harmony with the town’s general zoning plan” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• in determining whether to grant a special use permit, city council had to adhere to applicable regulations and ordinances and consider facts and circumstances
• pre-2006 discussion of the distinction between special uses and variances
• A legislative body’s decision made in a legislative capacity “is reviewed for arbitrariness as a matter of substantive due process under the six-part test set forth in La Salle National Bank v. County of Cook, 12 Ill. 2d 40 (1957).”
• equating administrative and quasi-judicial decisions
• equating administrative and quasi-judicial decisions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).