Case files. Wisconsin vs. Illinois, 1959-1966.

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Case files. Wisconsin vs. Illinois, 1959-1966.

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Transcripts of testimony with indexes, briefs and related court documents, proposed findings of fact, reports, correspondence, and miscellany from a set of cases in which the states bordering on the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River sought an injunction to prohibit the diversion of water from Lake Michigan by the state of Illinois and the Chicago sanitary district. The cases were heard by a special master appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Full title: States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio & Pennsylvania, New York & Michigan vs. State of Illinois and the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago.

15.75 cu. ft. (16 boxes)

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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Chicago Sanitary District.

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Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago.

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Minnesota. Attorney General

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These cases had their genesis in a bill of complaint filed with the United States Supreme Court by the state of Wisconsin in 1922, seeking an injunction to restrain the state of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago from diverting water from Lake Michigan through the Chicago River into the Des Plaines River and ultimately the Mississippi. This linkage, completed in 1900, not only facilitated navigation between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River waterways system, but a...

Maris, Albert B. (Albert Branson), 1893-1989

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