PUBLIC STREET OPENING
WHEREAS, the City of Chicago ("City") is a home rule unit of local government pursuant to Article VII, Section 6 (a) of the 1970 constitution of the State of Illinois and, as such, may exercise any power and perform any function pertaining to its government and affairs; and
WHEREAS, the City can enhance public access by opening new rights of way or widening existing rights of way; and
WHEREAS the City seeks to widen W. Division Street by opening additional strips along both the north and south peripheries of the existing right of way line between approximately N. Halsted Street and the North Branch of the Chicago River (approximately N. Elston Avenue) as CDOT File: 4/5-27-23-4033 ; and
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION 1. The opening of public right of way described as follows:
(PARCEL 1) THAT PART OF LOT 25 (EXCEPT THAT PART OF THE SOUTH 4.30 FEET OF SAID LOT 25, LYING WESTERLY OF A LINE DRAWN PERPENDICULARLY TO THE NORTH LINE OF WEST DIVISION ST., SAID LINE BEING 281.165 FEET WEST OF THE INTERSECTION OF THE WESTERLY LINE OF NORTH BRANCH ST. AND THE NORTH LINE OF WEST DIVISION ST., AS MEASURED ON SAID NORTH LINE), IN BLOCK 51 OF ELSTON'S ADDITION TO CHICAGO (ANTE-FIRE), AND LYING EASTERLY OF THE DOCK LINE ESTABLISHED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO, PER THE ORDINANCE PASSED MARCH, 23, 1904, AND PLAT SHOWING THE CHANGE IN THE DOCK LINE, RECORDED MAY 19, 1904, AS DOCUMENT NO. 3540703, IN BOOK 8574 OF RECORDS AT PAGE 309, IN THE WEST HALF OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 5, TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 14 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS WITH BEARINGS REFERENCED TO THE ILLINOIS STATE PLANE COORDINATE SYSTEM, EAST ZONE, NAD 83 (2011):
BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID LOT 25, BEING ALSO THE INTERSECTION OF THE WESTERLY LINE OF NORTH BRANCH ST. AND THE NORTH LINE OF WEST DIVISION ST.; THENCE SOUTH 88 DEGREES 22 MINUTES 35 SECONDS WEST ON THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID LOT AND THE ...
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