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State court upholds Chicago's food truck restrictions

December 20, 2017

An Illinois appeals court panel rejected a lawsuit challenging Chicago's 5-year-old law regulating food trucks, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The three justices of the 1st District Appellate Court of Illinois found no reason to remove the ordinance the city approved in 2012.

The rules restrict mobile food vendors from operating within 200 feet of restaurants.

Food trucks filed the lawsuit two weeks after the city council passed the law in July 2012.

The suit also challenged the requirement that the trucks be equipped with GPS tracking devices to allow the city to track their locations.

A Cook County judge sided with the city a year ago. The one remaining plaintiff in the case appealed that ruling.