Haymarket Center and the village of Itasca are locked in a legal fight over a proposed addiction treatment facility. Haymarket wants to operate it in this five-story former hotel. Brian Hill/bhill@dailyherald.com, April 2025

The U.S. attorney's office in Chicago has asked an appeals court to reverse a judge’s decision denying its request to intervene as a plaintiff in Haymarket Center’s long-running lawsuit against Itasca over the village’s rejection of an addiction treatment facility.

The saga began in 2019 when Haymarket proposed a comprehensive substance use and mental health treatment center in Itasca for people from DuPage County and surrounding communities.

Itasca trustees, however, unanimously turned down Haymarket’s zoning request to convert a former Holiday Inn into a 240-bed

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