Record #: O2011-5405   
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Intro date: 6/8/2011 Current Controlling Legislative Body: City Council
Final action: 6/8/2011
Title: Honorary street designation as "Oprah Winfrey Way"
Sponsors: Burnett, Jr., Walter
Topic: STREETS - Honorary Designations
Attachments: 1. O2011-5405.pdf
 
CITY COUNCIL
City of Chicago
COUNCIL CHAMBER
City Hall—Second Floor 121 North LaSalle Street Chicago, Illinois 60602 telephone: 312-744-4096
FAX: 312-744-8155
COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS
Transportation & Public Way (Chairman)
Budget and Government Operations
Energy, Environmental Protection & Public Utilities
Education and Child Development
ANTHONY A. BEALE
Alderman, 9th Ward 34 East 11 2th Place Chicago, Illinois 60628 telephone: (773) 785-1100
Fax: (773) 785-2790 e-mail: ward09@cityofchicago.org
Finance
Police and Fire
Rules and Ethics
June 6, 2011
To the President and Members of the City Council:
Your Committee on Transportation and Public Way begs leave to report and recommend that Your Honorable Body pass An ordinance authorizing and directing the Commissioner of Transportation to take the actions necessary to honorarily designate the block of 100 North Carpenter Street as "Oprah Winfrey Way."    This ordinance was referred to the Committee on May 18, 2011.
This recommendation was concurred unanimously by a viva voce vote of the members of the Committee with no dissenting vote.
(Ward 27)
 
Chairman
 
 
ORDINANCE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION 1. Pursuant to an ordinance passed by the City Council of the City of Chicago on the third day of December 1984, printed on pages 11459-11460 of the Journal of the Proceedings of said date, which authorizes the erection of honorary street-name signs, the Commissioner of Transportation shall take the necessary action for the standardization of 100 N. Carpenter Street, to be known as "OPRAH WINFREY WAY."
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon passage and publication.
 
Walter Burnett, Jr. Alderman, 27th Ward