Office of the City Clerk - Record #: SO2013-4989

• Record #: SO2013-4989
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 6/26/2013
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Transportation and Public Way
• Final action: 9/11/2013
• Title: Amendment of prior ordinance which granted Union Station Company right to construct, maintain and operate certain railroad tracks and facilities
• Sponsors: Solis, Daniel
• Topic: PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION - Metra

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
9/11/2013	60158	City Council	Passed as Substitute	Pass
9/4/2013		Committee on Transportation and Public Way	Recommended to Pass	Pass
6/26/2013	57212	City Council	Referred

SUBSTITUTE ORDINANCE


Amending an ordinance entitled "An Ordinance Granting to the Union Station Company, a corporation, its successors and assigns, the right to construct, maintain and operate a railroad passenger station in the City of Chicago, and the right also to construct, maintain and operate certain railroad tracks and facilities in connection therewith in this ordinance described," passed by the City Council of the City of Chicago on March 23, 1914, appearing in the printed Journal of the Proceedings of the City Council of that date on pages 4536 to 4562, approved March 31, 1914, and amended September 10, 1914, pages 1409 to 1412 of said Journal, amended March 25, 1916, pages 4047 and 4048 of said Journal, amended April 22, 1918, pages 2466 to 2569 of said Journal; amended May 27, 1925, pages 392 and 393 of said Journal; and amended January 21, 1931, pages 4386 and 4387 of said Journal and said amending Ordinance being recorded with the Cook County Recorder of Deeds on June 25, 1954 as document numbered 15943542; now, therefore,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:


SECTION 1. That Section 4(a) of an Ordinance passed by the city Council of the City of Chicago on March 28,1914, approved March 31,1914, and appearing in the printed Journal of the Proceedings of the City Council of that date, on pages 4536 to 4562, as subsequently amended, is hereby amended by adding the language underscored and by deleting the language struck through, as follows:

"... and it is further covenanted and agreed that, if any structure of any kind shall ever be erected above, over or across that portion of said Congress Street viaduct (also known as Eisenhower Expressway) between the east property or right-of-way line of the Chicago Union Station company described as being three hundred and fortv-four (344) feet east of and parallel to the east-line of Canal Street and the west bank of the south branch of the Chicago River, then as an express condition for ...