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AN ORDINANCE
Authorizing the City Manager to Negotiate the Sale of City -Owned
Real Property Located at 100 Chicago Avenue
WHEREAS, the City of Evanston owns certain real property legally described
on Exhibit A and with a real property address of 100 Chicago Avenue ("Subject Property");
and
WHEREAS, the Subject Property is currently utilized by the City as a surface
permit parking lot with 20 spaces utilized by commuters and residents of the area; and
WHEREAS, the Subject Property is at the corner of Chicago and Howard
Street, providing an entrance to the City and an underutilized parcel as a surface parking
lot; and
WHEREAS, Harrington Brown, LLC, an Illinois limited liability company is
already under contract to purchase property, directly north of the Subject Property from a
different land owner, and seeks to purchase this property to assemble parcels for a
potential mixed use development on the two properties; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that the Subject Property is not
necessary to City operations and continuing to own the Subject Property is no longer in the
City's best interests,
NOW BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
EVANSTON, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, THAT:
SECTION 1: The City Manager is hereby authorized and directed to
negotiate with all interested purchasers for the sale of the City's interests in the real estate
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legally described in Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, with a
real property address of 100 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Illinois.
SECTION 2: The City Manager is directed to set the sale price for the Subject
Property at Two Hundred Forty Thousand Dollars ($240,000).
SECTION 3: Pursuant to Subsection 1-17-4-2-(B) of the Evanston City
Code, 2012, as amended (the "City Code"), an affirmative vote of two-thirds (%) of the
elected Aldermen is required to accept the recommendation of the City Manager on the
negotiation authorized herein. The City reserves the right to reject any and all negotiations.
SECTION 4: All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.
SECTION 5: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its
passage, approval, and publication in the manner provided by law.
SECTION 6: If any provision of this Ordinance or application thereof to any
person or circumstance is held unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, such invalidity shall
not affect other provisions or applications of this Ordinance that can be given effect
without the invalid application or provision, and each invalid application of this Ordinance
is severable.
SECTION 7: The findings and recitals contained herein are declared to be
prima facie evidence of the law of the City and shall be received in evidence as provided by
the Illinois Compiled Statutes and the courts of the State of Illinois.
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Adopted: Z- q � , 2017
Attest:
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Approved as to form:
W. Grant Farrar, Corporation Counsel
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EXHIBIT A
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
PART OF THE SOUTH 6.25 CHAINS OF THE NROTH EAST % OF SECTION 30,
TOWNSHIP 41 NORTH, RANGE 14 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN,
DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE NORTH
LINE OF HOWARD STREET, WITH THE EAST LINE OF THE RIGHT OF WAY OF THE
CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD RUNNING THENCE EASTALONG THE
NORTH LINE OF HOWARD STREET TO ITS INTERSECTION WITH THE WEST LINE
OF NORTH CLARK STREET (FORMERLY CHICAGO AVENUE) THENCE NORTHERLY
ALONG THE WEST LINE OF SAID CLARK STREET 100 FEET, THENCE WEST
PARALLEL WITH THE NORTH LINE OF HOWARD AVENUE TO THE EAST LINE OF
THE RIGHT OF WAY OF CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD, THENCE
SOUTHERLY ALONG SAID RIGHT OF WAY LINE 100 FEET MORE OF LESS TO THE
POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL 2: THE NORTH 50 FEET OF THE SOUTH 150 FEET
OF THAT PART OF THE SOUTH 6.25 CHAINS, LYING WEST OF THE WEST LINE OF
CHICAGO AVENUE EAST OF THE EAST LINE OF CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN
RAILROAD AND NORTH OF THE NORTHLINE OF HOWARD STREET OF THE NORTH
EAST 1/4 OF SECTION30, TOWNSHIP 41 NORTH, RANGE 14 EAST OF THE THIRD
PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
Real property address: 100 North Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL 60202
PINs: 11-30-212-007-0000 and 11-30-212-008-0000
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