Supreme Court of Illinois

With regard to a tax sale and subsequent issuance of a tax deed by order of the circuit court, petition to have the tax deed set aside based on lack of notice is denied where the notice procedures of the Property Tax Code embody all that can be done under existing law to locate and identify a delinquent taxpayer who is hospitalized for mental illness.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/20/2005
• Published 10/20/2005

Judges

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jerold S. Solovy, Barry Sullivan, Denise Kirkowski Bowler, Anders C. Wick, Benjamin M. Vetter, of Jenner & Block, LLP, Robert F. Harris, Charles P. Golbert, Kass A. Plain, Office of the Cook County Public Guardian, all of Chicago, for appellant., Mark J. Heyrman, Chicago, for amici curiae Mental Health Association in Illinois and the Mental Health Project of the University of Chicago Law School's Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic., John Barr, Jay Barr, Decatur, for amicus curiae Illinois Tax Purchasers Association.


• For Appellees:
  
• Denise Brewer, Deborah L. King, Chicago, for appellees.