Record #: O2019-2719   
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Intro date: 4/10/2019 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Transportation and Public Way
Final action: 6/12/2019
Title: Honorary street designation as "Honorary Marge Britton Way"
Sponsors: Osterman, Harry
Topic: STREETS - Honorary Designations
Attachments: 1. O2019-2719.pdf
Alderman Harry Osterman
4 8TH WARD




April 10, 2019







BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF CHICAGO:

SECTION 1. Pursuant to an ordinance heretofore passed the City Council, which allows establishing an honorary street designation, the Commissioner of Transportation shall take the necessary action for standardization of the:

"5400 block of North Magnolia Avenue, from West Balmoral Avenue to West Catalpa Avenue as Honorary Marge Britton Way"

HARRY OSTERMAN Alderman, 48th Ward
5533 NORTH BROADWAY • CHICAGO. ILLINOIS 60640 • 773-784-5277 • Fax 773-784-5033




SECTION 2. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force upon it's passage and publication.
Date:


Office of Budget and Management 121 N. LaSalle, Room 604 Chicago, IL 60602


To Whom It May Concern:

I, trrAOffice of Budget Management to withdraw the funds associated with the cost of
installation for this honorary street designation for !*>£-\T~r0t4 Qjh^f
from my:

^Ej^Ward's annual menu program budget
? Ward's aldermanic expanse allowance

upon passage of this designation ordinance, pursuant to Section 2-8-040 of the Chicago Municipal Code.


Sincerely,

Alderman













6/1/2017



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Marge Britton
When Marge Britton, bom in 1937, was 3 years old, she and her family moved into the home at 5535 N. Wayne Ave. in Chicago's Lakewood Balmoral neighborhood. Her family lived there for a few years before moving two blocks east to 5510 N. Magnolia Ave. While residing there, she attended St. Ita's Elementary School and St. Gregory High School, right in the neighborhood, and Mundelein College (where she earned a bachelor's degree in English-Journalism), about a mile away. As Marge puts it: "The world came to me—I didn't have to go."
After Marge married her husband, Hai, the couple lived in two homes nearby until getting a tip in 1968 that the house at 5414 N. Magnolia was for sale. It became the home where she and Hal would raise their six ch...

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