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7-0-59
AN ORDINANCE
To Acquire Certain Property
for parking purposes by
Condemnation
WHEREAS, the City of Evanston has been authorized
by statute to acquire sites, buildings and facilities for the
construction, equipping, managing, controlling, erecting,
improving, extending, maintaining and operating of motor
vehicle parking facilities; and
WHEREAS, said City Council has heretofore determined
that it is necessary to acwuire the real property herein-
after described for such parking facilities; and
WHEREAS,'the Director of Public Works of the City
of Evanston has heretofore attempted to acquire such property
by purchase and has reported to the City Council of the
City of Evanston the fact that he had been unable to agree
• with the owners of said property as to the compensation to
be paid therefor;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINCE by the City
Council of the City of Evanston:
SECTION 1: It is necessary, convenient
and desirable for the City of
Evanston to acquire title to the real property specifically
set forth in Section 3 hereof for motor vehicle parking
facilities.
SECTION 2: The Plan Commission of the
City of Evanston has heretofore
approved the establishing and operating' of parking facilities
on the property hereinafter in Section 3 of this Ordinance
legally described.
SECTION 3: The -real property which is
necessary, convenient and
desirable to acquire for the purpose specified in Section 1
of this ordinance is legally described as follows:
The north 100 feet, except the north 20 feet
thereof taken for public street, of the west
150 feet, except the west 40 feet thereof
taken for public street, of the north 9-3/8
acres of the southwest quarter of the north-
east quarter of Section 252 Township 41 North,
Range 13 East of the=Third Principal Meridian,
in Cook County, Illinois
SECTION 4:: Title to and possession of
said real property specifi-
cally described in Section 3 of this ordinance shall be
acquired by the City of Evanston and the Corporation Counsel
of the City and Special Counsel, RIGHEIMER AND RIGHEIMER,
hereby are authorized, empowered and directed to institute
proceedings -in any court of eompeten•t jurisdiction to
acquire title to and possession of said property for the
City of Evanston in accordance with the eminent domain
laws of the State of Illinois
This ordinance shall take
SECTION 5::
from and after its passageo
effect and be in full force
IMTRODUCED February 16, 1959
PASSED February 23, 1959
APPROVED February 24, 1959
J. R. Kimbark
Mayor
ATTEST:
Maurice F. Brown
City ClOrk
Approved as to form:
Rex A. Bullinger
Corporation Counsel