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Special use for a social club or lodge at 800 Busse Highway

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After a public hearing, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended that the City Council approve a special use (SU-25-01) allowing a not-for-profit cultural association, Albanian Culture Association of Chicago, to operate a social club or lodge at 800 Busse Highway. The vote was 9–0. The City Council's own action is not part of this record.

Documented status: Committee recommendation (recorded), Jan 14 2025. Evidence dated . Later outcomes require a later source.

Official identifiers: SU-25-01

What changed, and when did it take effect?

  1. · Committee recommendation · Recorded in minutes

    Planning and Zoning Commission recommends approval

    Meeting date: Jan 14 2025. Item IV.A: the motion carried (9 to 0). Address: 800 Busse Highway. Applicant: ALBANIAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO.

    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of Planning & Zoning Commission minutes, 2025-01-14, Planning and Zoning Commission, Jan 14 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 3 · Approved minutes of Planning & Zoning Commission minutes, 2025-01-14, Planning and Zoning Commission, Jan 14 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Agenda of Planning & Zoning Commission agenda, 2025-01-14, Planning and Zoning Commission, Jan 14 2025. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of Planning & Zoning Commission minutes, 2025-01-14, Planning and Zoning Commission, Jan 14 2025. Open the quote and source.

What was requested, recommended, approved, contracted, reported paid and completed?

Amounts are read from the cited pages and added up by code. A recommendation, an award or an authorized amount does not establish that money was paid.

No amount is published for this item.

Contracts, payments and completion

No contract, payment or completion record is published for this item. Approval alone does not establish completion.

Which parcels, agencies, businesses and projects are explicitly connected?

Official identifiers and exhibit listings connect records. A name, an address or distance alone only suggests a connection.

Organizations and public bodies

  • ALBANIAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO (applicant)

What remains unresolved?

No condition or deadline is published for this item. That is a limit of the published research, not evidence that none exist.

Open questions

No open question is recorded for this item.

What does the evidence suggest, and what would change it?

No conflicting records are published for this item.

Permits at this address since the first recorded event

No approval, award or execution is recorded, so permits are counted after the first dated event, Jan 14, 2025 (Planning and Zoning Commission recommends approval).

Computed by code from the building permits in the Park Ridge property release (the county permit feed), as of Nov 1, 2026. A permit shows that work was authorized, not that it was completed, and no permit recorded does not establish that nothing was built. A parcel matched by address is nominated by the address written in the record; that does not prove the record concerns it.

  • Matched by address: 800 Busse Highway

    800 Busse Hwy

    1 permit recorded after Jan 14, 2025 through Nov 1, 2026: Other; $200,000 in declared value; dated May 5, 2026.

    Permits recorded after the decision at 800 Busse Hwy
    IssuedTypeWorkStatusDeclared value
    May 5, 2026OtherREMODEL SECOND FLOOR FOR TWO ONE-BEDROOM APARTMENTSOpen$200,000

Official source records

  1. Planning & Zoning Commission minutes, 2025-01-14

    Planning and Zoning Commission, Jan 14 2025

  2. Planning & Zoning Commission agenda, 2025-01-14

    Planning and Zoning Commission, Jan 14 2025

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Suggested citation: GroundSignal, “Special use for a social club or lodge at 800 Busse Highway,” sources reviewed 2026-09-24, source records listed on this page.

Initial permanent evidence page published September 10, 2026. Follow the dated evidence above for later additions and changes. A source-check date alone does not establish a government action or project outcome.