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WINNETKA TALK May 5, 1928 LF i i i ipti i ' i =, i fittings, trenching, pipe laying ICE The following is a description of said | in Township Forty-two (42) North, | pipes, oN . Nore improvement, and includes a description | Range Thirteen (13) East of the Third | backfilling, testing, removal of all sur- 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, i> 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- known, 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 summens 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. D. 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. of the lots, blocks, tracts and parcels of land sought to pe taken or damaged for the said improvement: That a public alley sixteen (16) feet in width be opened by condemning there- tor 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 Lot Twenty-three (23) that is described as follows: Beginning at the most west- erly 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- easterly 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) feet 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); ACT NUMBER 14. The southwest- erly sixteen (16) feet of Lot Ten (10); ACT NUMBER 15. The southwest- erly sixteen (16) feet of Lot Eleven (11): TRACT NUMBER 16. The southwest- erlv sixteen (16) feet of Lot Twelve (12); TRACT NUMBER 17. The southwest- erlv sixteen (16) feet of Lot Thirteen as); TRACT NUMBER 18. The southwest- erly sixteen (16) feet of Lot Fourteen All in Block Six (6) in Jared Gage's 'Subdivision of part of the Bast Half of the Northwest Quarter, also part of the West Half of the Northwest Quarter of Fractional Section Seventeen (17); also part of the Bast Half of the Southwest Quarter of Fractional Section Eight (8), 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: : Krom and connecting with the exist- ing pavement in Merrill Street south- casterly 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 curb 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 Illinois, this eleventh day of April, A. D. 1928. 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, II- iinois to make said report and assessm FREDERICK DICKINSON 1 t Poll. Village Attorney. T6-4tc VILLAGE OF WINNETKA NOTICE. Winnetka, Illinois, May 5th. 1 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids for the construction of a six (6) inch internal diameter cast i water pipe in the easter] int Ridge Avenue Gomettens. ay i known Ridge Road) from and connecting win the existing water pipe in the t n parkway of Winnetka Avenue, --_ easterly to and connecting with the ex- isting water pipe in said Ridge Avenue at its intersection with Meadow Road including fire hydrant, water gate valves, connections to existing water plus materials, all within the Village of Winnetka, County of Cook and State of Illinois, said improvement and assess- ment being otherwise known as Win- netka Special Assessment No. 471,369, in accordance with the ordinance hereto- fore passed therefor, will be received by the Board of Local Improvements of the Village of Winnetka by or before eight o'clock P. M., on Tuesday the fifteenth day of May, A. D. 1928, at which hour all bids will be opened at a meeting to be held in the Council Chamber of the Village Hall, in the Vil- lage of Winnetka, Cook County, Illinois. The specifications of said improve- ment are on file in the office of the Clerk of said Village of Winnetka. Contractors will be paid in bonds bear- ing interest at the rate of five (5) per centum per annum for all estimates ap- proved by the Board of Local Improve- ments in the sum of One Hundred Dol- lars ($100.00) and over and when the amount of balance due on any estimate is less than the sum of One Hundred Dol- lars ($100.00), the same will be paid by time warrants. In addition to the usual bond for construction and maintenance in the sum equal to the amount of the bid accepted by the Board of Local Im- provements, the successful bidder will be required to furnish an indemnity and defense policy in some reliable company, indemnifying the Village of Winnetka against loss from liability for damages on account of injury or death suffered by reason of the performance of the work required to be performed by the said con- tractor, by any person or persons, in- cluding such liability imposed under the employers' liability and workmen's com- pensation law of the State of Illinois, and the amendments thereof, in the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) for injury or death to any one person, nor less than Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00) for injury or death to more than one person in any one accident. HENRY F. TENNEY, President of the Board of Local Improvements of the Village of 'Winnetka. FREDERICK DICKINSON, Village Attorney. T9-1te VILLAGE OF WINNETKA. NOTICE. Winnetka, Illinois, May 5th, 1928. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids for the construction of a six (6) inch internal diameter cast iron wa- ter pipe in the westerly parkway of Cen- ter Street, from and connecting with the existing six (6) inch water pipe at or near the south line extended of Lot Five (5) in Barber's Subdivision of a part of Block Twenty-six (26) in John C. Gar- land's Addition to Winnetka, northwest- erly in said parkway for a distance of three hundred twenty (320) feet, includ- ing a fire hydrant, water gate valve, valve vault, connections to existing water pipe, fittings, trenching, pipe laying, backfill- ing, testing and removal of all surplus materials, all within the Village of Win- netka, County of Cook and State of Illi- nois, said improvement and assessment being otherwise known as Winnetka Spe- cial Assessment No. 471,367, in accord- ance with the ordinance theretofore passed therefor, will be received by the Board of Local Improvements of the Vil- lage of Winnetka by or before eight o'clock P. M., on Tuesday, the fifteenth day of May, A. D. 1928, at which hour all bids will be opened at a meeting to be held in the Council Chamber of the Village Hall, in the Village of Winnetka, Cook County, Illinois. The specifications of said improvement are on file in the office of the Clerk of said Village of Winnetka. . Contractors will be paid in bonds bear- ing interest at the rate of five (5) per centum per annum for all estimates ap- proved by the Board of Local Improve- ments in the sum of One Hundred Dollars (3100.00) and over and when the amount of balance due on any estimate is less than the sum of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), the same will be paid by time warrants. In addition to the usual bond for construction and maintenance in the sum equal to the amount of the bid re- ceived hy the Board of Local Improve- mets, the successful bidder will be re- quired to furnish an indemnity and de- fense policy in some reliable company, indemnifying the Village of Winnetka against loss from liability for damages on account of injury or death suffered by reason of the performance of the work required to be performed by the said contractor, by any person or persons, in- cluding such liability imposed under the employers' liability and workmen's com- pensation law of the State of Illinois, and the amendments thereof. in the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) for in- jury or death to any one person, nor less than Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000. 00) for injury or death to more than one person in any one accident. HENRY F. TENNEY, President of the Board of Local Improvements of the Village of 'Winnetka. FREDERICK DICKINSON, Village Attorney. T9-1tc