Chicago 1992 Committee records, 1976-1988.

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Chicago 1992 Committee records, 1976-1988.

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Correspondence, minutes, grant applications, and reports generated by the Chicago 1992 Committee, a social activist organization formed in 1982 to monitor planning of a proposed 1992 Chicago World's Fair; plus large quantities of materials gathered by the committee, including agendas and handouts from meetings, copies of feasibility studies, intergovernmental agreements, affirmative action plans, and other reports produced by the Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority or its contractual agents; notes taken by committee members at various public meetings concerning the fair (including hearings of the Chicago City Council's Committee on Special Events); newsclippings and audio tapes of speeches and radio broadcasts; a copy of the Chicago 1992 Committee's pamphlet, "The Fall of the Fair: Communities Struggle for Fairness," by Robert McClory (1986); and research files compiled by the committee about the financing and community impact of other recent world's fairs and the Los Angeles Olympics of 1984. Includes materials by the committee's executive director Frances Knibb, mayors Jane Byrne and Harold Washington, alderman Bernard Stone, other city and state politicians and officials, Lewis Kreinberg of the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, Chris Burgess of the 18th Street Development Corporation, and other community leaders. Also present are strategic plans for opposing the renewal of Commonwealth Edison's monopoly on electrical service in Chicago, which were created in the late 1980s by members of the still extant but inactive committee.

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Chicago 1992 Committee

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From 1984 onward, the Committee opposed the fair and criticized its organizers for not adequately addressing community concerns regarding funding, environmental and zoning disruptions, and affirmative action. Planning for the fair was ended in 1985. From the description of Chicago 1992 Committee records, 1976-1988. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat record id: 718732925 ...

Knibb, Frances.

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Stone, Bernard, 1922-

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McClory, Robert, 1908-1988

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Chicago (Ill.). City Council. Committee on Special Events.

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World's Fair (1992 : Chicago, Ill.)

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