Record #: O2018-5594   
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Intro date: 6/27/2018 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Transportation and Public Way
Final action: 7/25/2018
Title: Grant(s) of privilege in public way for University of Chicago, The
Sponsors: Willie B. Cochran
Topic: PUBLIC WAY USAGE - Grants of Privilege
Attachments: 1. O2018-5594.pdf
ORDINANCE
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Acct No. 43697 - 16 Permit No 1134222

Be It Ordained by the City Council of the City of Chicago:
SECTION 1 SECTION 1. Permission and authority are hereby given and granted to UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this ordinance to maintain and use, as now constructed, a network of steam tunnels under and across various city right-of way for the purpose of supplying steam for heating through the University of Chicago campus. Said network crosses under the East Midway Plaisance and seven (7) city right-of-way, locations and dimensions;
Tunnel Number 1
Begins at a point approximately seventy-five (75) feet south of the south line of East 60th Street, under and along the east side of South Blackstone Avenue, continuing in a northerly direction under and across the thirty-three (33) foot right-of-way of East 60th Street, approximately twenty-five (25) feet; thence changing to a westerly direction and continuing for approximately two hundred twenty-five (225) feet, outside dimensions of said tunnel begin nine (9) feet in height, ten (10) feet in width at a depth of approximately seven (7) feet, six (6) inches. Section spurring in a northerly direction from a point approximately eighty-five (85) feet from the south line of East 60th "Street, in a northerly direction for a distance of approximately two hundred seventy-five (275) feet under and along the East Midway Plaisance Number 1, outside dimensions of said tunnel being approximately nine (9) feet in height and five (5) feet in width.
Tunnel Number 2
Under and across a sixty-six (66) foot right-of-way of South Dorchecter Avenue twenty-six (26) feet north of the north line of East 60th Street, continuing under and along the Midway Plaisance Number 2 in a westerly direction a distance of approximately eight hundred ninety-five (895) feet, thence again changing to a northerly direction continuing for a distance of approximately five hundred sixty-seven (567)...

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