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City Pushes North Side Owners to Eliminate Blight

CHICAGO-The threat of condemnation may be enough to spur some property owners along Broadway, Devon and Sheridan in the Edgewater and Rogers Park communities to redevelop buildings, city officials think.

By Mark Ruda | Updated on May 11, 2005

CHICAGO-City officials say they do not have developers lined up for properties near the Broadway, Devon and Sheridan, a gateway between the Edgewater and Rogers Park communities. However, they are preparing to acquire some properties they consider less than the highest and best use or blighted in an attempt to spur the current owners to begin redevelopment.

The city council could vote in July on giving the department of planning and development authority to acquire buildings at 1230 and 1236 W. Devon Ave., 6330, 6340 and 6350 N. Broadway, 6601 N. Sheridan Rd. and 1233-43 W. Pratt Ave. through condemnation.

“They’ve really underserved the community for quite some time,” says 40th Ward Alderman Patrick J. O’Connor, who specifically called the intersection of Broadway, Devon and Sheridan “an absolute blight.” The properties further north on Sheridan Road and Pratt Avenue are in Alderman Joe Moore’s 49th Ward.

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