Bike shop owner wins fight against Chicago

The Chicago Sun-Times reports on a victory for property rights :

It wasn't worth the trouble, city officials said.

Last week, the City of Chicago quietly dropped its lawsuit against the Sportif bike shop, a fixture in the Jefferson Park neighborhood for the last 35 years.

As the U.S. Supreme Court was deciding last year by a controversial 5-4 vote that governments can take private property to give to developers who can create more profitable "economic development," a miniature version was playing out on the Northwest Side.

No word yet on whether Chicago's building inspectors are going to pay a visit to the bike shop to find building code violations.Because that's the Chicago Way.