The revelations keep coming in the lawsuit to keep the Latin School from building a soccer field in Lincoln Park.

North-side residents have formed a group called the Committee to Keep Lincoln Park Public and are suing the city, the Park District, and Latin, asking Judge Dorothy Kirie Kinnaird to issue a restraining order to block further construction, in part because the field was never approved by the Chicago Plan Commission, as required by the city’s lakefront protection ordinance. The field’s already about 60 percent completed.

Last Friday, during day one of the proceedings, it was revealed that the city hadn’t even acquired a building permit for the project. A lawyer for the city claimed that the Park District and Latin didn’t need one to build a large Astroturf field with bleachers, a scoreboard, and drainage pipes. A back porch would be another matter.