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WHEREAS, on Wednesday, March 2, 2011, the Committee on Housing and Real Estate of the City Council of the City of Chicago met to consider an ordinance authorizing the transfer of over 40 vacant parcels of land (approximately 3.5 acres) located adjacent to existing parks in various wards throughout the City (the "Adjacent Park Parcels") and approximately 650 acres of land in the Calumet area (the "Calumet Property") to the Chicago Park District; and
WHEREAS, at that committee meeting, a substitute ordinance was offered and accepted by the committee in lieu of the original ordinance, and the committee considered and recommended passage of the substitute ordinance; and
WHEREAS, the substitute ordinance eliminated one of the Adjacent Park Parcels from the transfer, but otherwise made no changes to the original ordinance; and
WHEREAS, because of an administrative error, the document that was reported out of committee to the City Council during the City Council meeting of March 9, 2011, then transmitted to the City Clerk and published in the Journal of the Proceedings of the City Council of the City of Chicago ("Journal") for that date at pages 113584 through 113631, was a working draft of the original ordinance instead of the substitute ordinance; and
WHEREAS, the printed ordinance erroneously omits approximately 10 acres of the Calumet Property, the future site of the Ford Calumet Environmental Center, from the transfer; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary and appropriate to correct the Journal to accurately show the ordinance that was considered and passed by the Committee on Housing and Real Estate and the City Council; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION 1. The Journal of March 9, 2011, is hereby corrected by amending the recitals on pages 113584 through 113589 and the exhibit on page 113609 of said Journal by adding the language underscored and deleting the language struck-through, as shown on Exhibit A atta...
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