Chicago City Clerk-Council Div.
2021 ffiiG 30 ph2: 13
ORDINANCE
Halsted Willow Group
1800 N. Halsted Street
N. Halsted Street 1727-1729 N. Halsted Street
N. Halsted Street
WHEREAS, pursuant to the procedures set forth in the Municipal Code of Chicago (the "Municipal Code"), Sections 2-120-620 through -690, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks (the "Commission") has determined that the Halsted Willow Group of four buildings (the "Group"), located at 1800 N. Halsted Street, 1732 N. Halsted Street, 1727-1729 N. Halsted Street and 1733 N. Halsted Street, Chicago, Illinois, as more precisely described in Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein, satisfies three (3) criteria for landmark designation as set forth in Section 2-120-620 (1), (4), and (6) ofthe Municipal Code; and
WHEREAS, the Group is a significant group of nineteenth-century mixed use buildings, exemplifying the historic and architectural importance of such buildings to the economic and social history of Chicago; and,
WHEREAS, the buildings in the Group were built in the 1880s, a period of great growth for Chicago jn general and the Lincoln Park community area in particular. They remain an important link to Chicago's economic and social history for both Chicago residents and visitors; and,
WHEREAS, the buildings in the Group were built and used by ethnic-German immigrants and descendants through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, exemplifying the historic importance of Germans to Chicago and its neighborhoods; and,
WHEREAS, the Group is a significant group of Victorian-era store and flats buildings, exemplifying the importance of this commercial building type. One building also historically housed a third-floor public hall, a type of meeting hall of significance to Chicago's working- and middle-class neighborhoods; and,
WHEREAS, the buildings in the Group are fine and significant examples of neighborhood mixed-use buildings in the Italianate and Queen Anne architectural styles,...
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