ORDINANCE
COMMUTER RAIL DIVISION OF REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
Acct. No. 88386 - 1 , I
Permit No. 1115737
Be It Ordained by the City Council of the City of Chicago:
SECTION 1. Permission and authority are hereby given and granted to COMMUTER RAIL DIVISION OF REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, upon the terms and subject to the conditions ofthis ordinance to maintain and use, as now constructed, one (1) Retaining Wall on the public right-of-way adjacent to its premises known as 300 N. Canal St existing retaining wall located on a parcel of land in north Canal Street adjacent to Wharfing Block "K" in original Town of Chicago in Section 9, Township 39, Range 14 East of the Third Meridian which parcel of land is bounded and described as follows, to wit:
Beginning on the east line of North Canal Street, said east line also being the west line of said Wharfing block "k" at a point which is 34.56 feet north from the southwest corner of said Wharfing block "K" and running thence northwestwardly a straight line, a distance of 76.09 to a point which is 34.38 feet, measured perpendicularly west from said east line of North Canal Street; thence northeastwardly along a straight line in a direction perpendicular to the previously described line a distance of 12.00 feet to a point which is 23.76 feet .measured perpendicularly, west from said east line of North Canal Street, thence southeastwardly along a straight line in a direction perpendicular to the previously described line and parallel to the next previously described line, a distance of 51.39 feet to a point along said east line of North Canal Street, a distance of 26.57 feet to the point of beginning,
h containing 771 square feet of land, more or less.
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The purpose of the retaining wall is to protect an area that is to be a new railroad track east of the retaining wall and at the north end of Union Station.
Said Retaining Wall(s) at N. Canal Street measure(s):
One (1) at seventy-six point zero nine (76.09) feet i...
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