Love Church, an Illinois Not-For-Profit Corporation, Cross-Appellant v. City of Evanston, an Illinois Municipal Corporation, Cross-Appellee

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• holding no standing for plaintiff church that failed to apply for a permit and was not threatened with prosecution for operating without a permit
• no standing where existence of economic damage is possible yet speculative, because vague economic damages are \precisely the type of 'abstract' or 'conjectural' allegations spurned by the Supreme Court's [cases]\
• “Love Church relies on the mere possibility that, absent the Ordinance, it could have more easily acquired rental property in Evanston. Such speculative claims cannot constitute distinct and palpable injury for purposes of standing.”
• “[W]hatever specific difficulties [plaintiff] claims to have encountered, they are the same ones that face all [land users]. The harsh reality of the marketplace sometimes dictates that certain facilities are not available to those who desire them.”
• “Whatever specific difficulties [plaintiff church] claims to have encountered, they are the same ones that face all [land users]. The harsh reality of the marketplace sometimes dictates that certain facilities are not available to those who desire them”
• “Whatever specific difficulties [plaintiff church] claims to have encountered, they are the same ones that face all [land users]. The harsh reality of the marketplace sometimes dictates that certain facilities are not available to those who desire them”

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