Bike shop fights city's bid to seize site for developer

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Bike shop fights city's bid to seize site for developer

April 18, 2005

BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Legal Affairs Reporter Advertisement










Does the City of Chicago have the right to take the land under a successful business and give it to a developer and aldermanic contributor to throw up private apartments for the developer's profit?

Under Illinois law, the answer appears to be "yes."

But that could change.

As the U.S. Supreme Court debates the issue of whether the government can evict people from their homes or businesses to create "economic development" in Connecticut, Donald Zordani is wondering where the City of Chicago gets off trying to condemn his Sportif bike shop.

His thriving business has been operating at its site in the heart of Jefferson Park for 35 years....................................

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