Office of the City Clerk - Record #: O2018-5320

• Record #: O2018-5320
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 6/27/2018
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Finance
• Final action: 7/25/2018
• Title: Amendment No. 1 to North Branch (South) Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Program Redevelopment Plan and Project
• Sponsors: Emanuel, Rahm
• Topic: TAX INCREMENT FINANCING DISTRICTS - North Branch (South) T.I.F. - Amendment

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
8/1/2018		Office of the Mayor	Signed by Mayor
7/25/2018	81597	City Council	Passed	Pass
7/23/2018		Committee on Finance	Recommended to Pass
6/27/2018	79172	City Council	Referred

ORDINANCE

WHEREAS, pursuant to ordinances adopted on February 5, 1998, and published in the Journal of Proceedings of the City Council of the City of Chicago (the "Journal") for such date at pages 61070 to 61203, and under the provisions of the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act, 65 ILCS 5/11-74.4.1 et seg., as amended (the "Act"), the City Council (the "Corporate Authorities") of the City of Chicago (the "City"): (i) approved a redevelopment plan and project (the "Plan") for a portion of the City known as the "North Branch (South) Redevelopment Project Area" (the "Area") (the "Plan Ordinance"); (ii) designated the Area as a "redevelopment project area" within the requirements of the Act (the "Designation Ordinance"); arid (iii) adopted tax increment financing for the Area (the "TIF Adoption Ordinance" and together with the Plan Ordinance and the Designation Ordinance, referred to herein collectively as the "TIF Ordinances"); and

WHEREAS, the Plan established the estimated dates of completion of the redevelopment project described in the Plan and of the retirement of obligations issued to finance redevelopment project costs to be February 5, 2020, which date is not more than twenty-three (23) years from the date of the adoption of the Designation Ordinance, and the Corporate Authorities made a finding in the Plan Ordinance that such date was not more than twenty-three (23) years from the date of the adoption of the Designation Ordinance in accordance with the provisions of Section 11-74.4-3(n)(3) of the Act in effect on the date of adoption of the TIF Ordinances; and

WHEREAS, Public Act 91-478 (the "Amendatory Act"), which became effective November 1,1999, amended the Act, among other things, (i) to change the dates set forth in Section 11 -74.4-3(n)(3) of the Act by which redevelopment projects must be completed and obligations issued to finance redevelopment project costs must be retired to be no later than December 31 of the year in which the payment t...