Hussey v. Chase Manor Condominium Assoc.

Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
Condominiums
Citation
Case Number: 
2018 IL App (1st) 170437
Decision Date: 
Thursday, June 14, 2018
District: 
1st Dist.
Division/County: 
Cook Co., 4th Div.
Holding: 
Reversed and remanded.
Justice: 
ELLIS

An informal pathway behind a condo building, through and beyond a parking area to the rear entrance of the building is not a “sidewalk” under the Snow and Ice Removal Act’s immunity provision for removal of snow or ice from a “sidewalk”. A “sidewalk”, within meaning of the Act, is limited to the municipal right-of-way, the part of the public street reserved for pedestrian use that abuts private residential property. (BURKE and GORDON, concurring.)