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Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-159
Scope and Contents
The Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission Records document efforts to solve major public problems in land, water, resource management, and economic development in the six county Chicago metropolitan area from 1960 to 1980. This collection presents a rich resource for geographic, demographic, public policy, and environmental research in region and complements other records collections the Center holds. This collection is especially strong in land use, water resources, and transportation...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1960-1980; Other: Date acquired: 12/08/1982
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Oversize Collection - Maps, Posters, Photographs, Calendars, Drawings
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-200
Scope and Contents
The Oversize Collection consists of unbound items from various Regional History Center collections which are too large to store in regular archival boxes.
The Oversize Collection contains five major groups of documents: posters and broadsides, photographs and prints, maps, newspapers, and certificates.
The Embree Collection's railroad calendars and posters show the locomotives of various railroads from the late 1930's through the mid-1950's. The war poster collection contains 629 posters...
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Planned Parenthood of Wheaton, 1971-1977
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-05-5.7
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1971-1977
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Ruth Riha Papers, Wheaton, Illinois, no date
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-05-5.5
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Transportation and Community Development in DuPage County, Illinois, 1830-1880 by Greg Vosefski, 1987
Collection
Identifier: RHC-VFM-05-5.3
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1987
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Will-DuPage Service Company Records
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: RHC-RC-094
Scope and Contents
These records partially document the business activities of the Will-DuPage Service Company in Joliet, Illinois from 1927 to 1973. Included are minutes of the Board of Directors (1927-1970), auditor’s reports (1966-1972), balance books (1943-1967), a journal of purchases (1969-1970), and photographic documentation of company activities and membership (1955-1973). Of special note are records relating to the short-lived subsidiary of the Service Company, Will Du Enterprises, Incorporated. ...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1927-1973; Other: Date acquired: 04/15/1980
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Win G. Knoch Papers (Naperville)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-179
Scope and Contents
The Win G. Knoch Papers contain three series that partially document the public and private activities of Win G. Knoch of Naperville, Illinois.
The first series, Biographical, contains extensive information on Knoch and his family’s history, 1893-1983. Also included is information on honors, awards, civic, professional, and charitable activities of Judge Knoch.
Series II, Correspondence Files, is the largest and most complex series in the collection. The series spans the years 1936-1983....
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1893-1983; Other: Date acquired: 10/01/1987
Found in:
Northern Illinois University