County of Du Page v. Elmhurst-Chicago Stone Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the ordinary concept of use, as applied in determining the existence of a nonconforming use, must yield to the realities of the business in question and the nature of its operations”
• holding that “the ordinary concept of use, as applied in determining the existence of a nonconforming use, must yield to the realities of the business in question and the nature of its operations”
• noting that gravel extraction businesses “cannot operate over an entire tract at once”
• excavation allowed to continue on entire plot, since plot had been devoted to excavation as evidenced by numerous switch tracks, although stone had not yet been removed from all portions of the land
• mining started 25 years after certificate was issued

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).