Reports
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 136 Collections and/or Records:
MC70. Illinois Department of Corrections, Juvenile Division Records, 1934-1976
Collection
Identifier: MC-70
Scope and Contents
When the Illinois Department of Corrections was created in 1970, its Juvenile Division assumed the duties of the Illinois Youth Commission: the annual Governor's Conference on Youth, publications on substance abuse, child abuse and delinquency prevention, the Illinois Junior Sports Jamboree, surveying the detention of juveniles in county jails, and the Chicago Area Project. Series I: includes planning records, programs, meeting minutes, correspondence, memos, clippings, press...
Dates:
Created: 1934 - 1976; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1976
MC72. Springfield Voting Rights Lawsuit, Records & Clippings, 1984-1987
Collection
Identifier: MC-72
Scope and Contents
Records and newspaper clippings related to the case Frank McNeil et al vs. the City of Springfield et al, known as the Springfield Voting Rights Lawsuit, heard in U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois in 1984-1987. The plaintiffs argued that Springfield's commission form of government was racially exclusive and violated the voting rights of minority residents in the city.
The court ruled for the plaintiffs, resulting in the reorganization of the city's government in the...
Dates:
Created: 1984 - 1987; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1987
MC84. Clarence W. Klassen, Love Canal Collection, 1981-1996
Collection — Box 2&3
Identifier: MC-84
Scope and Contents
Chief Sanitary Engineer for the State of Illinois, 1935-1970, first director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and environmental consultant. Served as an expert witness at a trial, 1979-1994, regarding the dumping of toxic wastes at Love Canal in Niagara Falls, New York. Love Canal was dug in the 1890s, used as a chemical dump, and later filled in and developed for housing. The area was declared unsafe and 239 families were evacuated in 1978. The Federal Government, State of...
Dates:
Created: 1981 - 1996; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1997
MC85. City Water, Light and Power/Lake Springfield, Records, 1939-1974
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MC-85
Scope and Contents
Maps, brochures, publications and reports concerning Willis J. and Charles H. Spaulding, City Water, Light and Power, Lake Springfield and the development of the gas, electric and street railway business in Springfield. Also a bibliography on CWLP and a proposed environmental policy for Lake Springfield (1974). Published items include "Rules, Regulations and Official Map of Lake Springfield" (ca. 1970), "Official Map of the City of Springfield, Illinois - Souvenir Edition" (ca. 1968), "A...
Dates:
Created: 1939 - 1974; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1977
MC94. William Howarth Papers, 1963-1987
Collection
Identifier: MC-94
Scope and Contents
William Howarth is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He earned a B.A. at the University of Illinois and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. This collection contains research, notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, articles, and drafts pertaining to travel writings he composed for the National Geographic Society from 1981-1987.Series I (Folders 1-22) St. Lawrence River Research: Research pertaining to Howarth's article, "The St. Lawrence" that...
Dates:
Created: 1963 - 1987; Other: Date acquired: 07/07/2008
MC96. Harold A. Katz Papers, 1965-1983
Collection
Identifier: MC-96
Scope and Contents
Harold A. Katz was elected Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives from Glencoe in 1964. He served for nine terms from 1965-1983 and was active in many areas. His special interests included civil liberties, public health and safety, criminal law, regional transportation, licensure legislation, "sunset" legislation, legislative rules and procedures, and the convention for a new state constitution. Perhaps, though, his greatest contribution to the legislature was...
Dates:
Created: 1965 - 1983; Other: Date acquired: 11/19/2009
MC102/1. Recycling Archives: Blue Mountain Center Interviews
Collection — 3 folders
Identifier: MC-102/1
Scope and Contents
This disk contains a collection of interviews of recycling activists who met at the Blue Mountain Center at Blue Mountain Lake, New York on June 1-3, 2007. The interviews were held in a chain format with each interviewer/ interviewee pair switching roles and performing a second interview after the first. The participants include 14 prominent members of the recycling field with discussions held in 22 separate audio tracks. Each participant is asked a series of questions from an established...
Dates:
Created: 2007; Other: Date acquired: 06/05/2011
MC102/4. Recycling Archives: Gretchen Brewer Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MC-102/4
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a variety of materials dealing with recycling policy, technology, and planning. Binders containing slides, photographs, and articles about recycling technologies in North America and Europe make up the majority of this collection. Also included are policy handbooks, a newsletter, program implementation guides, and a recycled products guide.
Gretchen Brewer is a former regional planner and recycling coordinator at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental...
Dates:
Created: 1991-2001; Other: Date acquired: 01/05/2012
MC102/5. Recycling Archives: Abby Walden Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MC-102/5
Scope and Contents
A collection of reports and newspaper clippings dealing with recycling in Springfield, Sangamon County, and Illinois. Specific materials included clippings from periodicals in Springfield and Sangamon country, reports on recycling and solid waste management, a report on a study of solid waste disposal, and a regulation guide and keyword index for the 1987 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
Abby Walden is the manager of the Waste and Recycling Division in the Springfield Department...
Dates:
Created: 1987-1995; Other: Date acquired: 07/02/2012
MC102/6. Recycling Archives: Tania Levy Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC-102/6
Scope and Contents
A collection of materials from the personal papers of Tania Levy during her time as a Recycling Analyst for the City of Berkeley, California. These papers range from the late 1980s to her retirement in July of 2011. This collection contains a wide variety of materials including personal correspondence, financial records, contact lists, recycling public relations publications, manuals, training videos, and other assorted documents. The subject matter of the documents primary lies in ares of...
Dates:
Created: 1979-2011; Other: Date acquired: 12/17/2012