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All Rockford Party Records

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-175
Scope and Contents

Records in this collection partially document many of the activities of the All Rockford Party from 1957 to 1967. Types of materials include organization plans, meeting minutes and agendas, committee reports, financial records, platforms and policy statements, and membership information. Campaign materials and newsclippings indicate candidates and major issues of interest to the party. Other names used by the party were Greater Rockford Party and United Rockford Party.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1957-1967; Other: Date acquired: 03/11/1982

Aurora League of Women Voters Records

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-151
Scope and Contents Meeting minutes, annual reports, correspondence, budgets, bulletins, and scrapbooks comprise a major portion of this collection documenting the Aurora League of Women Voters (1947-1982). Although the minutes date only through May 1971, there are annual meeting proceedings for 1972 and 1973. Committee records and subject files document some of the studies and research conducted by the League (local government, downtown redevelopment, housing, and public health). The publications Know Your...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1947-1982; Other: Date acquired: 06/02/1982

Calvin L. Skinner, Jr. Papers (Crystal Lake)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-196
Scope and Contents The papers of Calvin L. Skinner, Jr. cover the years 1963 to 2000 and are separated into seven series: Regional Transportation Authority, Income Tax, Politicians, Subject Files, Legislative Bills, Title X, and Correspondence. The first series, the Regional Transportation Authority, is located in boxes 1-27 and contains the bulk of the collection. This series includes House and Senate bills and analyses, correspondence, and notes. It is concerned with the formation of and the opposition...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1963-2000; Other: Date acquired: 01/16/1990

Chauncey W. Reed Collection (West Chicago)

 Collection — Volume: 1-7
Identifier: RHC-RC-067
Scope and Contents The Chauncey Reed collection partially documents the career of Chauncey Reed as State’s Attorney for DuPage County, 1920-1935, and as a member of the United States House of Representatives from the 11th Illinois District, 1935-1956. The collection also includes a few record books (1876-1887) from the business of William Reed, Chauncey’s father. The collection does not include any of Reed’s congressional papers or correspondence, but it does provide some biographical background in the form...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1856-1956; Other: Date acquired: 06/13/1979

City of DeKalb Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-139
Scope and Contents The City of DeKalb Collection is organized into two record series. The first series, City Records, consists of budgets, comprehensive development plans, revised ordinances, and committee records. Documentation on the urban renewal project in 1968-1969 can be found in the Urban Renewal Study Committee records. Demographic and economic information on the area is available in the development plans and in a survey done in 1947. Records from the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce comprise series two....
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1913+; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1965

David McMahon and Barbara Keeling Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-329
Scope and Contents The David McMahon and Barbara Keeling Collection consists of material on Rockford, Illinois collected by David McMahon and Barbara Keeling from the 1910s to 2011. The materials document the various religious, social, political, medical, and entertainment organizations, businesses, and events of Rockford, Illinois primarily in the later half of the twentieth century. The collection also reflects McMahon and Keeling’s interest in Rockford history as they saved images and material related to...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1910-2013; Other: Majority of material found in 1950-2011; Other: Date acquired: 01/30/2013

DeKalb League of Women Voters Records

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-118
Scope and Contents The DeKalb League of Women Voters, organized soon after the formation of the national League, educated the first women voters of DeKalb County on the mechanics and policies of government. These records document the League’s efforts towards securing legislation of special interest to women, wiping out legal discrimination against women, and educating the general public on city, county, state, and national politics. Information is available on the League’s work to save the DeKalb city park...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1924-1998

DeKalb-Ogle County Labor Council Records

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-170
Scope and Contents The records in this collection document many of the activities of the DeKalb-Ogle County Central Labor Council from 1964 to 1982. Types of records include: constitution, by-laws, minutes, correspondence, membership information, newsletters, and newsclips. Financial reports were usually included in meeting minutes. The minutes, although incomplete, provide excellent documentation of the issues important to Council members. Extensive correspondence files and material from the Illinois F of...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1964-1983; Other: Date acquired: 05/02/1984

Dennis J. Collins Papers (DeKalb)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-005
Scope and Contents The materials in the collection partially document three areas of Collins’ professional activities. The collection contains general correspondence concerning Collin’s personal business dealings from 1931 to 1974, correspondence and topical literature related to Collins’ duties as State Representative (1931-1943) and State Senator (1943-1973), and correspondence from Collins’ legal practice with most materials involving specific legal cases. This collection represents a modest portion of...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1931-1974; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1973

E.J. "Zeke" Giorgi Papers (Rockford)

 Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-136
Scope and Contents The Giorgi Papers are organized into three series: (1) constituent correspondence (1967-1981), (2) topical files (1965-1979), and (3) topical newsclipping files (1969-1975).  The topical files contain information Giorgi gathered from various sources and comprise the largest series.  Major subjects covered include the Board of Higher Education, energy, environmental protection, equal rights amendment, Governor Walker’s news releases, health care, law enforcement, the lottery, the mental...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1965-1981; Other: Date acquired: 11/02/1981

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