Santelli v. City of Chicago

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the plaintiff could allege a cause of action for negligence against the City for failing to remove an unreasonably dangerous median barrier
• holding that the plaintiff could allege a cause of action for negligence against the City for failing to remove an unreasonably dangerous median barrier
• the improvement itself must create the dangerous condition and it is not enough for an improvement to be used in a dangerous manner
• complaint must give sufficient information to the opponent and to the court of the character of evidence to be introduced or of the issues to be tried
• “[A] trial court should grant leave to amend a complaint unless it is apparent - 15 - No. 1-24-0674 that, even following amendment, no cause of action can be stated.”
• a vehicle that launched itself over a raised meridian on an “S” curve engaged in a dangerous use of the road and was not confronted with a dangerous condition on the road for the purposes of section 3-103(a)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).