Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission records, 1923-1972.

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Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission records, 1923-1972.

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Correspondence, minutes, memos, reports, research files, press releases, and publications of the Chicago Regional Planning Association, ca. 1923-1961, and of the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, ca. 1957-1972, concerning comprehensive planning in the six county metropolitan Chicago area, including Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will Counties. Topics include air and water resource management, highways, mass transit, open space, airport sites, zoning, parks, waterways, and community planning agencies and other aspects of urban and suburban planning.

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Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission

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In 1957 (through the efforts of the Randolph Commission, the Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council and other civic and business groups), the Illinois legislature established the Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning Commission--known later by its shortened name as the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, or NIPC. Shortly thereafter the Chicago Regional Planning Association merged into NIPC. From the description of Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission records...

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