Felyer v. City of Chicago

── Felyer v. City of Chicago ── Court: Appellate Court of Illinois Date: April 17, 2026 Category: General 2026 IL App (1st) 250264-U FIFTH DIVISION April 17, 2026 No. 1-25-0264 NOTICE: This order was filed under Supreme Court Rule 23 and is not precedent except in the limited circumstances allowed under Rule 23(e)(1). ______________________________________________________________________________ IN THE APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS FIRST DISTRICT ______________________________________________________________________________ DISGRASE FELYER, ) Appeal from the ) Circuit Court of Defendant-Appellant, ) Cook County. ) v. ) No. 22 M 1657262 ) CITY OF CHICAGO ) Honorable ) Maryam Ahmad, Plaintiff-Appellee. ) Judge Presiding. ) JUSTICE MIKVA delivered the judgment of the court. Presiding Justice Mitchell and Justice Wilson concurred in the judgment. ORDER ¶1 Held: Defendant’s appeal from the circuit court’s turnover order is untimely. However, we have jurisdiction to review and we affirm the circuit court’s order striking his petition for relief from judgment ¶2 Defendant Disgrase Felyer appeals from the circuit court’s October 13, 2023, entry of an order directing J.P. Morgan Chase Bank (J.P. Morgan) to turn over funds from his account to the City of Chicago to satisfy a judgment entered against Mr. Felyer several years earlier. He also appeals the circuit court’s order striking his petition for relief from judgment filed under section No. 1-25-0264 2-1401 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Code) (735 ILCS 5/2-1401 (West 2024)), in which he argued that the turnover order was void for lack of personal jurisdiction. For the following reasons, we have no jurisdiction to review Mr. Felyer’s appeal from the turnover order as it is untimely, and we affirm the circuit court’s order striking his petition for relief from judgment because the petition lacked merit. ¶3 I. BACKGROUND ¶4 This appeal stems from an administrative judgment entered against Mr. Felyer in the Chicago Department of Administrative Hearings on March 9, 2018, finding him liable for $2,540 in fines for five property-related municipal code violations. That judgment has resulted in a number of lawsuits between Mr. Felyer and the City of Chicago (City), including this case. ¶5 On December 7, 2022, the City registered the unsatisfied administrative judgment against Mr. Felyer in the circuit court which, with interest, had grown to $4,262.74. The City then issued to Mr. Felyer a citation to discover his assets, directing him to appear before the court and answer questions under oath about his income and finances. According to an affidavit by an employee of Barrister Investigations and Filing Service, Inc. (Barrister), the citation could not be served because the address listed on the citation, 6801 W 73rd St. Unit 502, was a United States Postal Service location, and possibly a P.O. box. ¶6 The City issued two subsequent alias citations. A Barrister emplo