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COMMERCIAL VACATION ORDINANCE
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, E. 107th Street ("Dedicated Street") directly west of S. Doty Avenue was originally dedicated to the City by North Pullman 111th Inc. ("Developer") as part of the Pullman Park Phase 1 Subdivision, pursuant to ordinance adopted by the City Council of the City (the "City Council") on February 9, 2011, and published in the Journal of the Proceedings of the City Council on pages 112439 through 112442; and
WHEREAS, the plat of subdivision was recorded with the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Cook County, Illinois, on July 19,2011, as document 1120029049, as hereto attached as EXHIBIT A; and
WHEREAS, the Dedicated Street was never improved, and is now deadended with no possibility of being connected to the City's contiguous street grid system because of intervening construction; and
WHEREAS, the Dedicated Street therefore cannot act to serve traffic and the public
good; and
WHEREAS, the City wishes to revert the Dedicated Street back to the Developer; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of -Chicago, after due investigation and consideration, has determined that the nature and extent of the public use and the public interest to be subserved is such as to warrant the vacation of that portion of the Dedicated Street, described in this ordinance; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
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VACATION OF ALL OF E. 107TH STREET IN PULLMAN PARK - PHASE 1, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE WEST HALF OF SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 37 NORTH, RANGE 14 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO PLAT THEREOF RECORDED
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JULY 19,2011 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 1120029049, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOL...
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