Chicago can use ‘public health’ concerns to shut down building projects, even if rules don’t say so, judge says – Cook Country Record

A Cook County judge says Chicago's city public health commissioner had the power to act beyond the limits of her power spelled out in the law to block a permit that would have allowed a new Southwest Side metal recycling center to open, even after prior approvals from other city reviewers had led the company to invest more than $80 million in the project, before the project was suddenly nixed by the public health commissioner.