Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1964 [PAGE 840]

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1963]

U N I V E R S I T Y OF I L L I N O I S

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Beginning at a point on the West line of South Peoria Street (60 feet wide) which is 226.62 feet South of the North line of Lot 12 in the Subdivision of Block 2 of Canal Trustees' Subdivision in said Section 17 (3366. 00N. - S62. 53W.); thence North 90° OO'-OO" East along the Grid Coordinate line 3366.00 North, a distance of 0.64 feet to the Grid Coordinate Line 561.89 West (3366. OON.-561.89W.); thence South 00° OO'-OO" West along the Grid Coordinate Line 561.89 West, a distance of 74.31 feet to the Grid Coordinate Line 3291.69 North (3291.69N.-561.89W.); thence South 90° OO'-OO" West along the Grid Coordinate Line 3291.69 North, a distance of 103.22 feet to the Grid Coordinate Line 665.11 West (3291.69N.-66S.11W); thence North 00° OO'-OO" East along the Grid Coordinate Line 665.11 West, a distance of 104.78 feet to the Grid Coordinate Line 3396.47 North (3396.47N.-665.11W); thence North 90" OO'-OO" East along the Grid Coordinate Line 3396.47 North, a distance of 0.31 feet to the West line of Lots 1 to 12, both inclusive, in the Subdivision of Block 2, aforesaid (3396.47N. - 664.80W.); thence South 00° 03'-09" West along the West line of said Lots 1 to 12, both inclusive, a distance of 104.61 feet to the North line of West Vernon Park Place (3291.86N.-664.90W.); thence North 89° 52'-14" East along the North line of West Vernon Park Place, a distance of 102.31 feet to the West line of South Peoria Street (3292.09N. - 562.S9W.); thence North 00° 02'-39" East along the West line of South Peoria Street, a distance of 73.91 feet to the point of beginning. Containing 106 Square Feet, more or less. Note: The coordinates given in parentheses following the description of each point are based upon the University of Illinois, Congress Circle, Rectangular Coordinate System. O n m o t i o n of M r . J o h n s t o n , t h e f o r e g o i n g r e s o l u t i o n w a s a d o p t e d b y the f o l l o w i n g v o t e : A y e , M r . C l e m e n t , M r . J o h n s t o n , M r . P a g e , M r . Pogue, M r . Swain, M r s . W a t k i n s , Mr. Williamson; no, n o n e ; absent, Mr. Dillard, M r . H u g h e s , M r . K e r n e r . EASEMENTS AND LICENSES RELATING TO CONGRESS CIRCLE CAMPUS (25) The University's contract with the city of Chicago for the acquisition of the Congress Circle Campus site provides that certain public streets through and adjoining the campus will remain open and contemplates that the University will receive easements across some of these streets for pedestrian bridges and underpasses and for University utility lines. The city of Chicago has passed appropriate ordinances authorizing the grant of these easements to the University. Receipt of the formal easement documents is expected in the near future. The acquisition contract also provides for the closing of other public streets and alleys, but permits the City to convey title to the University subject to necessary easements for underground utilities. Many of the existing city and public utility lines to remain on the site are situated in areas that were public streets and alleys which were vacated by ordinances of the city immediately prior to the conveyances to the University. These vacation ordinances reserve easements to the City and to utility companies to enable them to operate, maintain, replace, and renew existing service facilities at their present locations in the vacated streets and alleys, such easements to terminate upon the abandonment or release of the facilities or upon their relocation outside the vacated street or alley. In addition, the vacation ordinances for the streets and alley surrounding the Commonwealth Edison Company's Vernon Park Substation reserve to that company the right of access to the substation. The easements reserved in the vacation ordinances are in favor of the city of Chicago for its water, sewer, and fire alarm system lines; the Peoples Gas, Light, and Coke Company for its gas lines; the Commonwealth Edison Company for its electric lines (and access to its substation as noted above) ; and the Illinois Bell Telephone Company for its telephone lines. Descriptions of the specific locations of the utility lines in the vacated streets and alleys are being developed, and when these are available it is contemplated that the City and the various utilities will relinquish their rights in the portions of the vacated streets and alleys not required for the maintenance of the existing lines to remain in place.