Office of the City Clerk - Record #: O2014-6775

• Record #: O2014-6775
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 9/10/2014
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards
• Final action: 10/8/2014
• Title: Historical landmark designation for Wholesale Furniture Exposition Building at 1323 S Michigan Ave
• Sponsors: Dept./Agency
• Topic: HISTORICAL LANDMARKS - Designation

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
10/8/2014	93290	City Council	Passed	Pass
9/30/2014		Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards	Recommended to Pass	Pass
9/10/2014	86850	City Council	Referred

of Planning and Development
city of chicago

September 3, 2014


The Honorable Susana Mendoza City Clerk City of Chicago Room 107, City Hall 121 North LaSalle Street Chicago, Illinois 60602

RE: Recommendation for the Wholesale Furniture Exposition Building, 1323 S. Michigan Ave.

Dear Clerk Mendoza:

We are filing with your office for introduction at the September 10, 2014, City Council meeting as a transmittal to the Mayor and City Council of Chicago the recommendation of the Commission on Chicago Landmarks that the Wholesale Furniture Exposition Building be designated as a Chicago Landmark.
The material being submitted to you for this proposal includes the:
Recommendation of the Commission on Chicago Landmarks; and
Proposed Ordinance.
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
Sincerely,

Eleanor Esser Gorski, AIA Director of Historic Preservation Historic Preservation Division Bureau of Zoning and Land Use

ends.
Alderman Pat Dowell, 3r Ward (without enclosure)




121 NORTH LASALLE STREET, ROOM 1000, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60602
ORDINANCE

Wholesale Furniture Exposition Building 1323 South Michigan Avenue

WHEREAS, pursuant to the procedures set forth in the Municipal Code of Chicago (the "Municipal Code"), Sections 2-120-630 through -690, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks (the "Commission") has determined that the Wholesale Furniture Exposition Building, located at 1323 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois (the "Building"), legally described in Exhibit A attached hereto and incorporated herein, satisfies three (3) criteria for landmark designation as set forth in Sections 2-120-620 (1), (4), and (5) ofthe Municipal Code; and

WHEREAS, the Building is one ofthe last extant structures that were built as part of Chicago's "Furniture Row," comprised of buildings built for Chicago's wholesale furniture trade in the early 20th century. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, furniture was produced on a large scale in Chicago due to its positi...