MOUNT CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH v. ZEHNDER

No. 1-97-3831.

706 N.E.2d 1008 (1998)

MOUNT CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH, INC., a Religious Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kenneth E. ZEHNDER, Director, Illinois Department of Revenue, and the Illinois Department of Revenue; Honorable Wilson Frost and Joseph Berrios, Commissioners, Cook County Board of (Tax) Appeals, and the Cook County Board of (Tax) Appeals, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.

December 31, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Romberg of James J. Romberg, Chartered, Chicago, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General; Barbara A. Preiner, Solicitor General, Chicago (Janon E. Fabiano, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees Kenneth Zehnder and the Department of Revenue.


Justice THEIS delivered the opinion of the court:

Mount Calvary Baptist Church, Inc. (Mount Calvary), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, seeks reversal of the circuit court's order of September 16, 1997, affirming the final administrative decision of the Illinois Department of Revenue (the Department), which had denied, in part, Mount Calvary's request for a religious-use tax exemption for several parcels of property for the 1991 tax year. The properties at issue...

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