(70 ILCS 1590/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 801)
Sec. 1.
The boundaries of Grant Park are hereby extended so as to
embrace and include the following lands located in the City of Chicago,
County of Cook, and State of Illinois
heretofore agreed and scheduled to be transferred under an agreement
between the State of Illinois, City of Chicago and the Chicago Park
District dated November 1, 1982, and known as document number 26440937,
generally described as follows:
All of the territory bounded on the east by the west line of 1984 Lake
Shore Drive Relocation and bounded on the west by the eastern boundaries of
Grant Park as heretofore established and in effect immediately prior to the
effective date of this Act, and bounded on the north by the South line of
Randolph Street extended and bounded on the south by the North line of
Monroe Street extended, including all submerged and reclaimed lands located
in such territory.
Also, all of the territory bounded on the east by the sea wall lying
east of 1984 Lake Shore Drive Relocation, on the west by the east line of
Lake Shore Drive, on the northwest and west by 1984 Lake Shore Drive
Relocation and on the north by the south line of Randolph Street as
extended and more particularly described as follows:
That part of the lands of the Southwest fractional quarter of Section 10,
and the Northwest fractional quarter of Section 15, Township 39 North,
Range 14 East of the Third Principal Meridian, County of Cook, State of
Illinois, lying South of East Randolph Street, as dedicated by the two
Plats both recorded in the Recorder's Office of Cook County, Illinois, one
recorded on July 18, 1973 as Document Number 22404493 and the second
recorded on December 13, 1974 as Document Number 22935649, and lying West
of the East line of North Lake Shore Drive, extended South, as dedicated by
a Plat of Dedication recorded in aforementioned Recorder's Office on March
14, 1979 as Document Number 24879733, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at the Southeast corner of aforesaid dedication of North Lake
Shore Drive, thence North along the East line of said dedication a distance
of 12.00 feet to a point on a line 128.00 feet South of and parallel with
the North line of East Randolph Street, extended East; thence East along
said parallel line a distance of 79.767 feet; thence North along a line
parallel with the East line of aforesaid dedicated North Lake Shore Drive a
distance of 48.890 feet to its intersection with the South line of East
Randolph Street, as shown on the Original Plat of Fort Dearborn Addition to
Chicago extended East, said point of intersection being 79.11 feet South of
the North line of East Randolph Street, extended East, as measured
perpendicularly and 79.511 feet East of the East line of North Lake Shore
Drive, as measured perpendicularly; thence East along aforesaid South line
of Randolph Street extended, per Fort Dearborn Addition, a distance of
85.724 feet to a point on the Harbor line established by and approved by
the Secretary of War April 30, 1940, said point being 79.11 feet South of
the North line of East Randolph Street, extended East, as measured
perpendicularly and 165.233 feet East of the East line of North Lake Shore
Drive; thence South along said Harbor line a distance of 217.463 feet to a
point of curve, said point being 296.571 feet South of the North line of East
Randolph Street, extended East, as measured perpendicularly, and 165.233 feet East
of the East line of North Lake Shore Drive, extended South, as measured
perpendicularly from said line; thence Southwesterly along a curved line
concave to the West and having a radius of 381.623 feet an arc distance of
264.117 feet to a point of compound curve; said point being 539.643 feet
South of the North line of East Randolph Street, extended East, as measured
perpendicularly, and 77.427 feet East of the East line of North Lake Shore
Drive, extended South, as measured perpendicularly from said line; thence
continuing Southwesterly along a curved line concave to the Northwest and
having a radius of 674.068 feet an arc distance of 570.047 feet to a point
of tangency, said point being 780.601 feet South of the North line of East
Randolph Street, as measured perpendicularly from said North line, and
419.291 feet West of the East line of North Lake Shore Drive, extended
South, as measured perpendicularly from said line; thence West along a
straight line tangent to last described curve line a distance of 150.000
feet to a point of curve, said point being 787.773 feet South of the North
line of East Randolph Street, as measured perpendicularly from said North
line, and 569.210 feet West of the East line of North Lake Shore Drive,
extended South, as measured perpendicularly from said line; thence Southwesterly
along a curved line concave to the Southeast and having a radius of 300.963
feet an arc distance of 468.221 feet to a point 1089.466 feet South of the
North line of East Randolph Street, as measured perpendicularly from said
North line, and 860.459 feet West of the East line of North Lake Shore
Drive, extended South, as measured perpendicularly from said line; thence
North along a straight line a distance of 291.615 feet to a point 797.888
feet South of the North line of East Randolph Street, as measured
perpendicularly from said North line, and 866.607 feet West of the East
line of North Lake Shore Drive, extended South, as measured perpendicularly
from said line; thence Northeasterly along a curved line concave to the
Southeast having a radius of 576.279 feet an arc distance of 317.807 feet;
thence Northeasterly along a straight line tangent to the last described
curved line a distance of 115.227 feet to a point of curve, said point
being 581.497 feet South of the North line of East Randolph Street, as
measured perpendicularly from said North line, and 500.990 feet West of the
East line of North Lake Shore Drive, extended South, as measured
perpendicularly from said line; thence continuing Northeasterly along a
curved line, being concave to the Northwest and having a radius of 768.687
feet an arc distance of 610.467 feet to a point of tangency, said point being
185.836 feet South of the North line of East Randolph Street, extended East
as measured perpendicularly and 59.271 feet West of the East line of North
Lake Shore Drive, extended South, as measured perpendicularly; thence
Northeasterly along a straight line a distance of 50.796 feet to a point on
the South line of aforementioned dedicated North Lake Shore Drive, said
point being 37.619 feet West of the point of beginning; thence East along
said South line of aforementioned dedicated North Lake Shore Drive a
distance of 37.619 feet to the point of beginning, in Cook County, Illinois.
(Source: P.A. 84-978.)
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