Pinkston v. City of Chicago

Summary

The Illinois Supreme Court held that the plaintiff was required to exhaust the administrative process for contesting his parking ticket before pursuing a class action seeking declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief. Because he challenged the ticket on a different ground and never presented the central-business-district issue to the administrative agency or sought judicial review of that determination, no exhaustion exception applied. The court reversed the appellate judgment and affirmed dismissal of the complaint with prejudice, without reaching the voluntary-payment issue.