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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 14 Apr 1928, p. 64

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April 14, 1928 "WINNETKA TALK 63 Jack and Jill Theater Plans New Building The Jack and Jill theater, located at 943 Rush street, Chicago, was formed about fifteen months ago in an at- tempt to find a real and workable answer to the question of "Where is there available an inexpensive theatric- al entertainment--especially for the children?" As youth was found to begin at three years and never in joy to grow old, two acting companies were formed; one of children to give entertainment to children under sixteen years and the other to give more mature per- formances. During the fifteen months experi- mental work the theater has given out- let and expression for dramatic and emotional talent and instincts of the many young people engaged directly in acting and indirectly as audiences. It has also been possible to revive many fine old plays and serve as a proving ground for many Chicago playwrights. Even in cramped quarters it has be- come a social center for over two hun- dred people. Because it was felt that movies, ex- cept on rare occasions, are too stim- ulating emotionally for children, the children's company was formed as an experiment. As an outgrowth of this experiment arises the plan to build for the children a theater of their own-- in their own terms and interpreted by actors of their own age. 4 Plans for this theater are now nearly completed by the Edwin D. Krenn ar- chitectural office and the structure will be started as soon as a plan for financ- ing it can be arranged. J. Fred McGuire and his daughter, Florence Louise, of 565 Sheridan road, came home Wednesday from a Medi- terranean cruise of about three months. Mrs. McGuire, who was in Florida while the rest of the family took the cruise, returned last week. NOTICE VILLAGE OF WINNETKA In the Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois General Number 470219 NOTICE OF PROCEEDINGS FOR A LOCAL IMPROVEMENT consisting of the opening of a public alley from Tower Road to Gage Street, and from Gage Street to Merrill Street, by condemning therefor the necessary land, including all buildings and other structures located thereon, and for the improvement of the land so condemned by constructing there- in a reinforced concrete pavement six- teen (16) feet in width, all within the Village of Winnetka, County of Cook and State of Illinois. In the Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois General Number 470219 STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF COOK, {SS VILLAGE OF WINNETKA, A Municipal Corporation, VS. AXEL E. ODMAN, HILMA ODMAN HENRY C. HARTSHORN, AMELIA N. FORBERG, WILLIAM ANDREWS MARY ANDREWS, JOHN JEFFREY, MARY TRAPP, HENRY HARFST, REA POULTON HARFST, REUBEN H. SCHELL, STATE BANK OF CHICAGO TRUSTEE, N. LANDON HOYT, HOW- ARD H. BROWN, ALICE S. BROWN, EMMA EMILIE PAPA, AND HUB- BARD WOODS TOWER COURT BUILDING CORPORATION, A COR- PORATION OF THE STATE OF IL- LINOIS, AND ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, by order duly en- tered in the above entitled proceedings, having directed that as to such de- fendants as are shown by the affidavit filed in said proceedings to be non-resi- dents of the State of Illinois, or whose residences are shown thereby to be un- khown, and the defendants designated as "All whom it may concern" the Clerk of said Court cause publication to be made in the Winnetka Talk, a secular news- paper published in the Village of Win- netka, Cook County, Illinois, containing notice of the following matters: Notice is hereby given of the pendency of the above entitled proceedings in- stituted by the petition of the Village of 'Winnetka, heretofore filed in the Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois, desig- nated General Number 470219 in said Court, praying for the ascertainment of the just compensation to be made for the private property to be taken or damaged for the making of the improvement here- inafter described, and for the ascertain- ment of what property will be benefited by the making of said improvement, and the amount of such benefit. The Commissioners duly appointed by the said Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois, to investigate and report the just compensation to be made for the private property to be taken or damaged for said improvement, and also" what real estate will be benefited by said improvement, and the amount of such benefit to each parcel of land assessed, duly made a special assessment to raise the cost of said improvement, and filed their said re- port and assessment roll in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois, on the eleventh day of April, A. D. 1928. Thereupon a summons issued out of said Court against the defendants above named and the defendants described as "All whom it may concern," returnable in said Court at the County Court House in the City of Chicago, County of Cook and State of Illinois, on the fifteenth day of May, A. D. 1928, as is by law re- quired, which proceeding is now pending. The total cost of said improvement, as shown by the estimate of the President of the Board of Local Improvements of said Village of Winnetka, and the re- port and assessment roll of said Com- missioners, is the sum of Forty-two Thousand, Five Hundred Ninety-nine Dollars and seventy-five cents ($42,599.75), and the total amount assessed to the public as benefits therein is no dollars and no cents ($0.00). Now unless you, such defendants as are shown by the affidavit filed in said proceedings to be non-residents of the State of Illinois, or whose residences are shown thereby to be unknown, and the defendants designate as 'All whom it may concern," shall be and appear be- fore the said Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois, at the County Court House in the City of Chicago, County of Cook and State of Illinois, on the fifteenth day of May, A. 1928, and plead, answer or demur to the petitioner's peti- tion, or object to the report and assess- ment roll of the Commissioners afore- said, the same and the matters and things therein charged and stated will be taken as confessed, and a judgment en- tered in accordance with the said report and assessment roll and the prayer of said petition. The following is a description of said improvement, and includes a description of the lots, blocks, tracts and parcels of land sought to be taken or damaged for the said improvement: That a public alley sixteen (16) feet in width be opened by condemning there- for the following described tracts of land, including all buildings and other struc- tures located theron: TRACT NUMBER 1. The southwester- ly sixteen (16) feet of Lot One (1); TRACT NUMBER 2. The southwester- ly sixteen (16) feet of Lot Two (2); TRACT NUMBER 3. The southwester- ly sixteen (16) feet of Lot Three (3); TRACT NUMBER 4. The southwester- ly sixteen (16) feet of Lot Four (4); TRACT NUMBER 5. The southwester- ly sixteen (16) feet of Lot Twenty-one (21). TRACT NUMBER 6. That part of Lot Twenty-two (22) that is described as fol- lows: Beginning at the most westerly corner of said Lot Twenty-two (22), and running thence northeasterly along the northwesterly line of said Lot, sixteen (16) feet; thence southeasterly parallel with the southwesterly line of said Lot, one and fifty-one hundredths (1.51) feet; thence southerly in a straight line forty- nine and thirty-six hundredths (49.36) feet to a point in the southeasterly line of said lot, six and seventy-eight hundredths (6.78) feet northeasterly of the most southerly corner thereof; thence south- westerly along the southeasterly line of said lot. six and seventy-eight hundredths (6.78) feet to the most southerly corner of said lot twenty-two (22) ; thence north- westerly along the southwesterly line of said lot, fifty (50) feet to the point of beginning ; TRACT NUMBER 7. That part of Tot Twenty-three (23) that is described as follows: Beginning at the most west- arly corner of said Lot Twenty-three (23), and running thence northeasterly along the northwesterly line of said lot, six and seventy-eight hundredths (6.78) feet; thence southerly in a straight line thirty-six and thirty-three hundredths (36.33) feet, to a point in the southwest- erly line of said lot. thirty-five and sixty-nine hundredths (35.69) feet south- aasterly of the most westerly corner thereof; thence northwesterly along the southwesterly line of said lot. thirty-five and sixty-nine hundredths (35.69) feet, to the point of beginning; TRACT NUMBER 8. That part of Lot Twenty (20) that is described as follows: Beginning at a point in the southeasterly line of said Lot Twenty (20), nineteen (19) feet southwesterly of the most east- terly corner of said lot; thence north- easterly along the southeasterly line of said lot, sixteen (16) feet; thence north- westerly parallel with and three (3) feet southwesterly from the northeasterly line of said lot, forty-eight and forty-nine hundredths (48.49) feet; thence northerly in a straight line, sixteen and ten hundredths (16.10) feet to a point in the northeasterly line of said lot twenty (20) thirty-five and sixty-nine hundredths (35.69) feet southeasterly of the most westerly corner of lot twenty-three (23); thence northwesterly along the northeast- erly line of said lot twenty (20), eighty- five and sixty-nine hundredths (85.69) feet to the most westerly corner of lot twenty-two (22); thence southerly in a straight line one hundred one ' and seventy-nine hundredths (101.79) feet to a point in the northwesterly line extended of lot twenty-four (24), nineteen (19) feet southwesterly of the most westerly corner of said lot twenty-four (24); thence southeasterly parallel with and nineteen (19) feet southwesterly from the north- easterly line of said lot twenty (20), fifty (50) feet to the point of beginning; All in Block Three (3) in Jared Gage's Subdivision of part of the East Half of the Northwest Quarter. also part of the West Half of the Northwest Quarter of Fractional Section Seventeen (17); also part of the East Half of the Southwest Quarter of Fractional Section Eight (8), in Township Forty-two (42) North, Range Thirteen (13) East of the Third Principal Meridian; TRACT NUMBER 9. The southwester- ly sixteen (16) treet of Lot One (1); TRACT NUMBER 10. The southwest- erly sixteen (16) feet of Lot Two (2); TRACT NUMBER 11. The southwest- erly sixteen (16) feet of Lot Five (5); TRACT NUMBER 12. The southwest- erly sixteen (16) feet of Lot Six (6); TRACT NUMBER 13. The southwest- erly sixteen (16) feet of Lot Seven (7); TRACT NUMBER 14. The southwest- erly sixteen (16) feet of Lot Ten (10); TRACT NUMBER 15. The southwest- erly sixteen (16) feet of Lot'Eleven (11); TRACT NUMBER 16. The southwest- erly sixteen (16) feet of Lot Twelve (12); TRACT NUMBER 17. The southwest- erly sixteen (16) feet of Lot Thirteen (13); TRACT NUMBER 18. The southwest- erly sixteen (16) feet of Lot Fourteen (14) ; All in Block Six (6) in Jared Gage"s Subdivision of part of the East Half of the Northwest Quarter, also part of the West Half of the Northwest Quarter of Fractional Section Seventeen (17); also part of the East Half of the Southwest Quarter of Fractional Section Eight (8), in Township Forty-two (42) North, Range Thirteen (13) East of the Third Principal Meridian: And that when so condemned, the said above described tracts of land shall be improved by constructing therein a rein- forced concrete pavement sixteen (16) feet in width, as follows: From and connecting with the exist- ing pavement in Merrill Street south- easterly to and connecting with the exist- ing pavement in Gage Street; also from and connecting with the existing pave- ment in Gage Street southeasterly to and connecting with the existing pavement in Tower Road. Said pavement shall be widened at its intersection with all existing pavements, to form proper connections with said existing pavements, by curved lines hav- ing the following radii to the back of the curb or edge of pavement; At Merrill Street, both of said radii shall be twenty (20) feet; at Gage Street, all of said radii shall be twelve and five tenths (12.5) feet; at Tower Road, the northeasterly radius shall be twenty-five (25) feet, and the northwesterly radius shall be twelve and five tenths (12.5) feet. The description of the location of the said proposed pavement shall be identical with the description of the land herein proposed to be acquired, except as to that part of the said proposed pavement to be constructed in said Merrill Street, Gage Street and Tower Road. Said proposed improvement shall in- clude clearing, grubbing, excavating, fill- ing, grading and preparing the subgrade to receive the said proposed pavement, re- moving trees concrete sidewalks, con- crete driveways, concrete curb, concrete curb and gutter, electric light poles and frame buildings, constructing an electric manhole, constructing concrete sidewalk approaches, and constructing a one (1) course reinforced concrete pavement six- teen (16) feet in width and eight (8) inches thick, without curbs, except in said Merrill Street, Gage Street and Tower Road, in each of which said streets a concrete curb shall be con- structed along each edge of and on top of said purposed pavement, from the existing curb of the pres- ent pavement to the edge of the existing sidewalk nearest the center line of the street, except that no curb shall be constructed on the proposed pavement connecting with the north- westerly side of the existing pavement in Gage Street. The top of said proposed ony shall be flush with the existing curb to which it connects, and said curb shall terminate at the grade of and at the edge of the existing walk nearest the center line of the street, all within the Village of Winnetka, County of Cook and State of Illinois. NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED, that the Council of the Village of Winnetka, County of Cook and State of Illinois, having ordered that the improvement above described be made, the ordinance for the same being on file in the office of the Village Clerk of said Village, and the said Village having applied to the Superior Court of Cook County. Illinois, for an assessment of the cost of said improvement according to the benefits, and a special assessment therefor having been made and returned to said Court, the final hearing thereon will be held on the fifteenth day of May, A.D. 1928, or as soon thereafter as the business of said Court will permit. All persons desiring may file objections in said Court before said day and may appear on the hearing and make their defense. Said ordinance provides for the collection of said assess- ment in ten (10) annual installments, with interest thereon at the rate of five per centum (5%) per annum. Dated at the City of Chicago, and at the Village of Winnetka, County of Cook and State of Minos, this eleventh day ril, A. D. 1928. of Ap : SAMUEL E. ERICKSON, Clerk of the Superior Court of Cook County, Il- linois. HENRY F. TENNY, E. BURT BROWN, HARRY I. ORWIG, Commissioners heretofore appointed by the Superior Court of Cook County, Tl- linois. to make said report and assessment roll. FREDERICK DICKINSON, ille orney. Village Att V. Totia VILLAGE OF WINNETKA IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS General Number 471821 SPECIAL ASSESSMENT NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED THAT the Village of Winnetka, Cook County, TIi- nois, having ordered that a local improve-- ment be made consisting of a connected system of storm sewers, including an open ditch to be lowered, to be construct- ed in Hibbard Road, Hamptondale Ave- nue and easements, Gordon Terrace, Pri- vate Drive (otherwise known as Auburn Road) and easements, and Chatfield Road, including all excavation, trench- ing, tunnelling under tree roots, shoring, bracing pumping, pipe-laying, backfilling trenches under existing pavements with sand, backfilling all other trenches with earth, flushing backfill with water, con- structing concrete end wall, concrete manholes, concrete catch basins and con- nections to existing catch basins, ad- justing existing sanitary sewer serv- ices and lead water pipe services, dis- connecting storm sewer services from the sanitary sewer and connecting same to the proposed storm sewer, lowering open ditch along the west side of Hibbard Road from Willow Road to Pine Street, protecting all existing improvements, re- pairing pavements, sidewalks, parkways and other existing improvements where damaged, removal of all surplus exca- vated materials and rubbish from the site of the improvement, all labor and materials, cost of engineering services, and all other expenses necessary to con- struct said local improvement, all within the Village of Winnetka, County of Cook and State of Illinois, the ordinance for the same being on file in the office of the Village Clerk of said Village, and the said village having applied to the Supe- rior Court of Cook County, Illinois, for an assessment of the cost of said im- provement according to the benefits, and a special assessment therefor having been made and returned to said Court, Gen- eral Number 471821, the final hearing thereon will be held on the twenty-third day of April, A. D. 1928, or as soon there- after as the business of the said Court will permit. All persons desiring may file objections in said Court before said day, and may appear on the hearing and make their defense. Said ordinance pro- vides for the collection of said assessment in ten (10) annual installments, with in- terest thereon at the rate of five per centum (5%) per annum. Dated, Winnetka, Illinois, April 6, A. D. 1928. HARRY I. ORWIG, Person appointed by the President of the Board of Local Improve- ments of the Village of Win- netka, Cook County, Illinois, (and such appointment approved and confirmed by the Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois) to make said assessment. FREDERICK DICKINSON, Village Attorney. T5-2tc

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