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Local Government Zoning Disputes
Expires: 11/1/2023

In their usual interactive and entertaining style, Steve Elrod and Julie Tappendorf will discuss and share their experiences dealing with controversial land use applications, contested hearings, and legal disputes. They will also provide tips for dealing with objecting neighbors, conflicts of interest, frontage protests, split boards and councils, changing political winds, and other controversial situations.
Steven M. Elrod, Elrod Friedman LLP, Chicago
Julie A. Tappendorf, Ancel Glink, PC, Chicago

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Live Webcast Replay from 12:00 to 1:00 PM on Friday, April 8, 2022
Expires: 11/1/2023

In their usual interactive and entertaining style, Steve Elrod and Julie Tappendorf will discuss and share their experiences dealing with controversial land use applications, contested hearings, and legal disputes. They will also provide tips for dealing with objecting neighbors, conflicts of interest, frontage protests, split boards and councils, changing political winds, and other controversial situations.

Steven M. Elrod, Elrod Friedman LLP, Chicago
Julie A. Tappendorf, Ancel Glink, PC, Chicago

Contributors

Steven M. Elrod

Elrod Friedman LLP, Chicago
Steven M. Elrod is the co-founding partner of Elrod Friedman LLP and serves as the firm’s Managing Partner.  He is an immediate past-president of the Chicago Bar Association, the largest metropolitan bar association in the nation. He serves as the Corporation Counsel for the City of Highland Park, and the Village Attorney for the Villages of Deerfield, Glencoe, Lincolnwood and Northbrook.
Mr. Elrod represents owners and developers in a variety of real estate and transactional projects, and is regularly engaged to secure zoning relief, entitlements, incentives and approvals from state and local governments. His practice focuses on: public-private partnerships; tax incentive and abatement agreements, including tax increment financing (TIF) and special service area (SSA) financing; annexation, subdivision and development agreements; shopping center, multi-family residential and mixed-use developments; and affordable and attainable housing programs. He has litigated land use issues, including eminent domain, regulatory taking and inverse condemnation, RLUIPA, the First Amendment and the Second Amendment. He drafted, and successfully defended a federal court challenge to, the City of Highland Park Assault Weapons Ban ordinance.
Mr. Elrod is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where he teaches Local Government and Land Use Law and is the recipient of the Law School’s award for Adjunct Professor of the Year, as well as the Law School’s award for Volunteer Service of the Year.  He is a founding member of the North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic, and he served as the co-chair of the legal advisory committee on the Lori Lightfoot Mayoral Transition Team.
Chambers USA 2020 rankings for Real Estate/Land Use placed Mr. Elrod in the highest position in Illinois (band 1) and he was ranked No. 1 in Top Ten List of Leading Land Use & Zoning Lawyer in Illinois by Leading Lawyers Network.  
Mr. Elrod received his J.D. from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and his B.A. from Tulane University.
Julie A. Tappendorf

Ancel Glink, PC, Chicago

Julie A. Tappendorf is an equity partner with Ancel Glink, P.C. in Chicago, practicing in the area of local government and land use law. Julie currently serves as City Attorney to Lake Forest and Park Ridge and Village Attorney to Glenview, Gilberts, and Lindenhurst.

Julie has published on a variety of government issues, including co-authoring the books Handling the Land Use Case (Thompson-Reuters 2016), Planning and Control of Land Development: Cases and Materials (Lexis-Nexis 2016), Zoning in the 21st Century (ALM 2016), Social Media and Local Governments (ABA 2013), Development by Agreement (ABA 2012), and Bargaining for Development (ELI 2003), as well as various articles on government and land use issues. She is a co-author of “Subdivisions, Subdivision Controls, and Drainage," in the Municipal Law Series Handbook and “Exemptions Under the Freedom of Information Act” in the Sunshine Laws Series Handbook, both published by IICLE®. She is a frequent speaker at local and national conferences on local government and land use related topics. Julie is also the author and moderator of the local government blog, Municipal Minute, where she writes about local government issues. Prior to her law career, she served in the U.S. Army, Military Intelligence Branch, as a Korean cryptologic-linguist.