Keating v. City of Chicago

This case presents question as to whether trial court properly dismissed plaintiff’s lawsuit seeking declaration that defendant’s 2003 ordinance, which established liability and penalties for registered owners of vehicles, where electronic devises at intersections detected and recorded vehicles caught in intersection in violation of red light traffic signal, was void because defendant lacked home rule authority to enact said ordinance. Appellate Court, in upholding dismissal, found that defendant had jurisdiction to enact said ordinance pursuant to its home rule authority, and that said ordinance was not in conflict with Illinois Vehicle Code’s proscription against enactment of ordinances that regulated moving violations. Appellate Court further found that 2006 Enabling Act, which authorized defendant and seven other communities to enact red-light camera ordinances, was not unconstitutional.