Bureau of Local Roads and Streets correspondence files, 1940-1977.

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Bureau of Local Roads and Streets correspondence files, 1940-1977.

Correspondence files concern construction of superhighways in Chicago and Cook County. Subjects include construction schedules, design standards, local ordinances appropriating additional motor fuel tax funds and state appropriations. Also included are related memoranda, ordinances and resolutions, studies, position papers, newspaper clippings and occasional blueprints of construcion plans.

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Illinois State Archive

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Illinois. Bureau of Local Roads and Streets

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Illinois. Department of Public Works and Buildings

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The Department of Public Works and Buildings was created by the Civil Administrative Code of 1917. It supervised operation of state highways, waterways and water resources, parks, printing, purchasing, and construction of state facilities. New agency absorbed State Highway Department and formed Waterways Division of Illinois and Michigan Canal Commissioners, the Rivers and Lakes Commission, and Illinois Waterway Commission. In 1925 Waterways Division was relocated in Department of P...

Illinois. Department of Transportation

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The Department of Public Works and Buildings was created by the Civil Administrative Code of 1917. It supervised operation of state highways, waterways and water resources, parks, printing, purchasing, and construction of state facilities. New agency absorbed State Highway Department and formed Waterways Division of Illinois and Michigan Canal Commissioners, the Rivers and Lakes Commission, and Illinois Waterway Commission. In 1925 Waterways Division was relocated in Department of P...