Illinois Supreme Court
Civil Court
Ordinances
Stampede at Chicago, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries. Circuit court's prior orders, forbidding occupancy of the second floor of nightclub building in building code violation proceeding, were clear. Jury had access to court transcripts as exhibits, and any ambiguities as to willful disobedience of court orders were for the jury to weigh. A rational jury could have found that club owners were fully aware of what building court's orders prohibited and willfully disobeyed the orders. (KILBRIDE, FREEMAN, THOMAS, GARMAN, BURKE, and THEIS, concurring.)