Office of the City Clerk - Record #: SO2015-4588

• Record #: SO2015-4588
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 6/17/2015
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards
• Final action: 7/29/2015
• Title: Historical landmark designation for Fulton-Randolph Market District, primarily at W Fulton Market, 800-1100 blocks, W Lake St, 900 block and W Randolph St, 700-1100 blocks
• Sponsors: Dept./Agency
• Topic: HISTORICAL LANDMARKS - Designation

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
7/29/2015	4353	City Council	Passed as Substitute	Pass
6/25/2015		Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards	Recommended to Pass
6/25/2015		Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards	Amended in Committee	Pass
6/17/2015	520	City Council	Referred

SUBSTITUTE ORDINANCE

Fulton-Randolph Market District

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 Fulton-Randolph Market District (the "District"), predominantly located at the 800- to 1100-blocks of W. Fulton Market St., the 900-block of W. Lake St., and the 700- to 1000-block of W. Randolph St., Chicago, Illinois, as more precisely described in Exhibit A and Exhibit B, both attached hereto and incorporated herein, satisfies three (3) criteria for landmark designation as set forth in Sections 2-120-620 (1), (4) and (6) of the Municipal Code; and
WHEREAS, the District is the oldest food marketing district in Chicago. Though the majority of the historic buildings in the District were built between 1880 and 1929, the District began to function as a food market in 1850 when a municipal market hall was built in the middle of Randolph St. To a substantial degree the District has continuously functioned as a food distribution area to the present day; and
WHEREAS, the widened portion of Randolph St. in the District is a legacy of three City of Chicago planning initiatives to support food marketing. In 1850 the city widened the street between Desplaines and Halsted Streets for a municipal market hall that was later replaced by an open air market supplied by truck farmers and operated by the City of Chicago. In 1908 the city extended the widened street west to Sangamon St. to relieve overcrowding in the farmer's market and to remove a vice district. In 1923 the street was widened again west to Union Park in a bid to attract wholesale produce dealers vacated from South Water Market; and
WHEREAS, the District includes the historic location of an open air farmers market supplied by truck farmers. Truck farmers worked land in Chicago's undeveloped neighborhoods and suburbs and their produce was an important pa...