PUBLIC STREET CLOSURE TO VEHICULAR TRAFFIC
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO THAT THE FOLLOWING PORTION OF PUBLIC WAY BE CLOSED TO VEHICULAR TRAFFIC:
SECTION 1. LEGAL
THAT PART OF W. 46th STREET 66 FOOT WIDE RIGHT OF WAY IN THE EAST HALF OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 2, TOWNSHIP 38 NORTH, RANGE 13 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS; BEGINNING AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 5 IN KEDZIE GARDENS, A SUBDIVISION OF LOT 8 IN McCAFFEREY AND MURPHY'S SUBDIVISION RECORDED DECEMBER 10, 1919 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 6691363, THENCE SOUTH 88 DEGREES 38 MINUTES 39 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF LOT 5 AFORESAID ALSO BEING THE SOUTH LINE OF W. 46th STREET 66 FOOT WIDE RIGHT OF WAY, 123.40 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID LOT 5; THENCE NORTH 03 DEGREES 16 MINUTES 54 SECONDS WEST FROM THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF LOT 5 AFORESAID 66.04 FEET TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF LOT 4 IN KEDZIE GARDENS AFORESAID; THENCE NORTH 88 DEGREES 38 MINUTES 39 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF LOT 4 AFORESAID ALSO BEING THE NORTH LINE OF W. 46th STREET 66 FOOT WIDE RIGHT OF WAY, 124.82 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID LOT 4; THENCE SOUTH 02 DEGREES 02 MINUTES 54 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE WEST LINE S. KEDZIE AVENUE 66.00 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, SAID ABOVE DESCRIBED PARCEL CONTAINING 8,191 SQUARE FEET OR 0.19 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, as shaded and legally described by the words "HEREBY CLOSED" on the plat hereto attached as Exhibit A (CDOT File: 02-14-21-3992), which plat for greater certainty, is hereby made a part of this ordinance, be and the same Is hereby closed to vehicular traffic except as a lane for fire, police and other emergency vehicles, inasmuch as the same is Intended for student use by the adjacent Chicago Public Schools Columbia Explorers Academy Elementary and Preschool ("CPS"), and the public interest will be subserved by such closing.
SECTION 2. The closure herein contemplated is made with t...
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