City of Chicago v. Green

The city of Chicago instituted these proceedings under the Local Improvement act of 1897, to construct by special assessment a brick sewer having a concrete bulkhead at its outfall, and extending from a point on the southerly line of the main drainage canal of the Sanitary District of Chicago south-easterly a short distance across the right of way of the sanitary district and thence south in Kedzie avenue to West Seventy-first street. The diameter of the sewer is nine feet at the mouth and decreases gradually to six and one-half feet. Its total cost is estimated at $370,000. It passes, near…