Office of the City Clerk - Record #: O2017-6779

• Record #: O2017-6779
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 9/6/2017
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Finance
• Final action: 10/11/2017
• Title: Fifty-second amending agreement with SomerCor 504, Inc. regarding administration of Small Business Improvement Fund program within Ravenswood Corridor Redevelopment Project Area
• Sponsors: Emanuel, Rahm
• Topic: TAX INCREMENT FINANCING DISTRICTS - Ravenswood Corridor T.I.F. - Small Business Improvement Fund

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
10/17/2017		City Council	Signed by Mayor
10/11/2017	56166	City Council	Passed	Pass
10/6/2017		Committee on Finance	Recommended to Pass	Pass
9/6/2017	54136	City Council	Referred

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ORDINANCE

WHEREAS, the City of Chicago ("City"), a home rule unit of government under Section 6(a), Article VII of the 1970 Constitution of the State of Illinois, is authorized under the provisions of the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act, 65 ILCS 5/11-74.4-1 et seq., as amended from time to time (the "Act"), to finance projects that eradicate blighted conditions and conservation area factors through the use of tax increment allocation financing for redevelopment projects; and

WHEREAS, by an ordinance adopted by the City Council of the City ("City Council") on July 21, 1999, and published in the Journal of Proceedings of the City Council ("Journal") for said date at pages 8307 to 8344, inclusive (the "Program Ordinance"), the City implemented a redevelopment program known as the Small Business Improvement Fund program (the "Program") to provide financing assistance pursuant to the Act for the improvement of commercial and industrial facilities of small businesses in certain redevelopment project areas of the City; and

WHEREAS, by ordinances adopted by the City Council, the first on November 8, 2000, and published in the Journal for said date at pages 43877 to 43930, inclusive (the "First Amending Ordinance") and the most recent fifty-first amending ordinance adopted by the City Council on July 26, 2017 (the "Fifty-First Amending Ordinance," collectively with the Program Ordinance, the First Amending Ordinance and the other amending ordinances, the "SBIF Ordinance"), the City has restated and refined the Program and extended its reach to additional redevelopment project areas of the City; and

WHEREAS, the SBIF Ordinance authorized DPD to fund the Program in the Ravenswood Corridor Redevelopment Project Area ("Ravenswood Corridor Area") in an amount not to exceed $2,000,000; and

WHEREAS, as part of the Program, the $2,000,000 funding previously authorized for the Ravenswood Corridor Area was substantially expended for the improvement of commercial a...