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 Uiinois and, as such, may exercise any power and perform any function pertaining to its government and affairs; and
WHEREAS, the properties at 1016-1020 N. Rush Street, 1019-1021 N. State Street and 1-7 E. Bellevue Place, together commonly known as "1028 N. Rush Street", are owned by Friend Enterprises LLC, an Illinois limited liability company ("Developer"); and
WHEREAS, the Developer proposes to use the limited portion of the street to be vacated herein for construction of a restaurant expansion with a limiting upper plane; 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 public way, described in the following ordinance; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION 1.
VACATION:
THE SOUTH 10.00 FEET OF E. BELLEVUE PLACE 80 FOOT RIGHT OF WAY LYING BELOW THE HORIZONTAL PLANE OF 51.00 FEET, CITY OF CHICAGO DATUM, LYING EAST OF THE EAST RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF N. STATE STREET AND LYING WEST OF THE WEST RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF N. RUSH STREET, IN THE SUBDIVISION BY THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE ILLINOIS AND MICHIGAN CANAL, RECORDED MAY 2, 1848, ANTE-FIRE. RERECORDED SEPTEMBER 24, 1877 AS DOCUMENT 151604, IN THE SOUTH FRACTIONAL QUARTER OF SECTION 3, TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 14, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ALL IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS. SAID PARCEL CONTAINING 684 SQUARE FEET OR 0.016 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, as shaded and legally described by the words "HEREBY VACATED" on the plat hereto attached as EXHIBIT A, which plat for greater clarity, is hereby made a part of this ordinance, be and the same is hereby vacated and closed, inasmuch as the ...
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