Chicago
1992 Committee records, 1976-1988
Descriptive Inventory for the
Collection at Chicago History Museum, Research Center
By Kimberly Jacobsen, 1995; rev.
by Jennifer Asimakopoulos
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Title: Chicago 1992 Committee records,
1976-1988
Main entry: Chicago 1992 Committee
Inclusive dates: 1976-1988
Size: 12 linear feet (29 boxes)
sound
recordings.
Restrictions: For
listening purposes, it is necessary to use a copy, not the original (and to
have a listening copy made if one is not available).
Provenance
statement: Gift
of Ms. Frankie Knibb in 1992 (1992.0342).
Terms governing use: Copyright may be retained by the
creators of items, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States
copyright law, unless otherwise noted.
Please cite this collection as: Chicago 1992 Committee records
(Chicago History Museum) plus a detailed description, date, and box/folder
number of a specific item.
This descriptive inventory
contains the following sections:
Biographical/historical
note,
Summary
description of the collection,
Description
of some materials related to this collection,
List of
online catalog headings about the collection,
Arrangement
of the collection,
List of contents of the collection.
Historical/biographical
note:
The Chicago 1992 Committee was an
activist organization formed in 1982 to monitor planning of the proposed 1992
World's Fair in Chicago on behalf of the taxpayers and residents of Chicago. In
1980, Thomas G. Ayers, former chief executive of Commonwealth Edison Company,
brought together a group of Chicago businessmen to begin planning for a world's
fair in Chicago. In January of 1981, the Chicago World's Fair 1992 Corporation
was formed by these businessmen. The group moved quickly, agreeing on the
theme, site, audience, and dates, and submitting an application to the U.S.
Department of Commerce and the Bureau of International Expositions.
Many citizen activists in Chicago
began considering what affect the World's Fair would have on the surrounding
neighborhood and the city as a whole. Many felt that the planners of the fair
were furtively aiming at a regentrification scheme for the South Loop area
which would displace many residents. Also, citizens began questioning what kind
of employment was going to be offered to residents of the neighborhood. Other recent
world's fairs, Knoxville in 1982 and New Orleans in 1984, lost money. The
Chicago 1992 Committee formed a coalition of these citizens, fair critics and
watchers.
The Chicago 1992 Committee
included community-based organizations such as 18th Street Development
Corporation, the South Austin Coalition Community, Bethel New Life, and the
Long Grove Tenants Association. Other city-wide special interests groups
involved in the Chicago 1992 Committee include the League of Women Voters, the
Community Renewal Society, the Center for Neighborhood Technology and the
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs.
Lew Kreinberg and Chris Burgess,
of the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs and the 18th Street Development
Corporation respectively, were the first to begin disseminating information
critical of the world's fair and wary of the organizers' purposes. In their
article, "World's Fair Unfair to Neighborhoods," printed in The Neighborhood Works, Kreinberg and
Burgess charged that city residents would be taxed to provide the necessary
upfront construction money, the Fair could easily lose money if the attendance
figures were less that two percent off, and the fair would have a disastrous
impact on Pilsen and Chinatown neighborhoods by raising land values which spurs
regentrification.
The Chicago 1992 Committee
consisted of two subcommittees, known as the Plumbers and the Straight
Flushers. The Plumbers were charged with collecting hard data about the fair
and producing critiques and analyses based on the data. The Straight Flushers
were to come up with proposals and strategies to upgrade housing, schools and
employment opportunities. In 1983, the board of the 1992 Committee hired
Frances Knibb, the representative from the League of Women Voters and member of
the Straight Flushers subcommittee, as executive director.
One of the original conflicts
between the Chicago 1992 Committee and the Chicago World's Fair 1992
Corporation was about the site at Burnham Harbor. Even people in favor of the fair
suggested alternate sites. Another conflict concerned who was going to pay for
the fair. The fair idea was originally presented as a purely private venture;
however, it became apparent that the taxpayers of Chicago would bear an
immediate burden for the construction and preliminary costs for putting on a world's
fair. The Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority went to the Illinois legislature
in 1983 to ask for statewide increases on cigarette and hotel room taxes to
fund the fair, to which the legislature agreed on a limited basis for Cook
County only.
The Chicago 1992 Committee found
an ally in Alderman Bernard Stone. He brought the conflict over the site of the
fair to the attention of the City Council and to the public through the news media.
Some of the foundations that helped fund criticism of the proposed Chicago 1992
world's fair included the Chicago Community Trust, Crossroads Fund, the Joyce
Foundations, and the Woods Charitable Fund.
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.
The end of fair planning came in
1985. The Chicago World's Fair 1992 Corporation commissioned a feasibility
study by A. D. Little, a company in Boston. The study reported that the fair
would definitely lose money and that the deficit would have to be made up by
private backers or the state legislature. The report did not suggest that the fair
plans be forgotten. Rather it stated that the city of Chicago and the state of
Illinois needed to decide if there was a better way to spend public money. On
June 20, 1985, State Representative Michael Madigan, Speaker of the House,
scheduled a press conference in Chicago concerning the fair. Earlier in the
year, he had assembled an independent advisory committee headed by Adlai
Stevenson to recommend whether the fair was a good risk. Their interim report
in April 1985 was highly critical of the fair. At this press conference,
Madigan stated that he would not support any funding plan, and the same day,
Governor Jim Thompson declared the Chicago 1992 world's fair plan to be dead.
The proposed world's fair was the
primary reason for the Chicago 1992 Committee to exist, and after the cessation
of fair planning, the committee became inactive. However, in 1988, the committee
revived to fight the renewal of Commonwealth Edison's monopoly on electrical
service in Chicago. This campaign was unsuccessful.
Summary description of the
collection:
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; notes taken by
committee members at various public meetings, 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 recent world's fairs and the Los Angeles
Olympics of 1984. Topics in the collection include alternative sites for the
fair in Chicago and their projected impact on neighborhoods, parks and public
facilities, traffic and housing patterns; sources of funding and increasing the
tax burden on Chicago; and community input during the planning process.
The collection 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 in the collection
are strategic plans in the late 1980s by members of the still extant but
inactive committee to oppose the renewal of Commonwealth Edison's monopoly on
electrical service in Chicago.
This collection contains
correspondence to and from the committee in general, usually addressed to
Frankie Knibb, the executive director. She attended almost all of the Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority meetings and the collection contains her notes,
agendas, and any handouts from these meetings, including committee meetings.
Committees of the Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority include affirmative
action, budget, bylaws, environmental, intergovernmental, speakers,
transportation and women. Ms. Knibb also attended many meetings of other groups
or public gatherings that pertained to the proposed World's Fair and the
agendas and notes from these are also in the collection. Also, all agendas,
notes, handouts, and minutes from meetings of the Chicago 1992 Committee and
any subcommittees are included.
Detailed information about recent
world's fairs is found in theme catalogs and pamphlets, newsclippings, summary
sheets, and budget data in the collection regarding fairs in Brisbane,
Australia (Expo '88); Knoxville, Tennessee (1982), Louisiana World Exposition,
New Orleans (1984), Montreal, Quebec (Expo '67); and Tsukuba, Japan (Expo '85).
The Committee also collected information on the Los Angeles Olympics of 1984.
The collection provides details
about the Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority, its members, and their
involvement in the community; and copies of reports commissioned by the
Authority, including the A.D. Little report in 1985 and environmental impact
studies by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce. A copy of the intergovernmental
agreement between the Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority and the Chicago and
Illinois governments is included.
The collection also contains the
Chicago 1992 Committee's own administrative records, such as staff lists,
mailing lists, and bank statements; news clippings from Chicago area
newspapers; copies of editorial statements from television and radio stations
in Chicago; audio tapes of radio programs and speeches; and rough drafts and
the final copy of The Fall of the Fair:
Communities Struggle for Fairness, written by Robert McClory, which describes
the effort to hold a 1992 world's fair in Chicago, the resulting controversy,
and the activities of the Chicago 1992 Committee.
Description of some materials
related to the collection:
Related materials at Chicago
History Museum, Research Center, include Chicago 1992 Committee photographs
(1992.0342), as well as publications of that organization, cataloged
separately. Many other materials about planning for the fair are at the
Research Center, including the records of the Illinois government agency planning
the fair: the Chicago World's Fair--1992 Authority records.
Also, 2 videocassettes were
transferred to the Prints and Photographs Collection.
List of online catalog headings:
The following index headings were
entered in the online catalog.
Subjects:
Chicago 1992 Committee--Archives.
Burgess, C. (Christopher)
Byrne,
Jane, 1933-
Knibb, Frances.
Kreinberg, Lew, 1936-
Stone,
Bernard, b. 1927.
Washington,
Harold, 1922-1987.
Chicago
World's Fair--1992 Authority
Chicago
(Ill.). City Council. Committee on Special Events.
Chicago World's Fair--1992
Authority.
Commonwealth
Edison Company
World's
Fair (1992 : Chicago, Ill.)
City
planning--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
Community
leadership--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
Electric
utilities--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
Exhibitions--Illinois--Chicago--20th
century.
Fairs--Illinois--Chicago--20th
century.
Chicago
(Ill.)--Politics and government--1978-
Illinois--Politics
and government
Near South Side (Chicago, Ill.)
Form/genre:
Audiocassettes.
Correspondence.
Minutes.
Reports.
Speeches.
Added entries:
Burgess,
C. (Christopher)
Byrne, Jane, 1933-
Knibb,
Frances.
Kreinberg, Lew, 1936-
McClory,
Robert, 1908-1988. Fall of the fair.
Stone, Bernard L., b. 1927.
Washington, Harold, 1922-1987.
Chicago (Ill.). City Council.
Committee on Special Events.
Chicago
World's Fair--1992 Authority
World's
Fair (1992 : Chicago, Ill.)
Arrangement of the collection:
Arranged alphabetically by topic.
List of contents of the
collection:
Box 1
Folders:
1 Adjacent
Neighborhood Report, 1984?
2 Affirmative
action, 1984-1985
3 Agendas
from various organizations concerning the proposed 1992 world's fair, 1983-1985
4 Alternative
site, 1984
5 Aquatic
Ecology, 1984
6 Articles
of incorporation, 1983
7 Attendance
estimates, 1985
8 Balanced
Investment Trust, 1986-1987
9 Balanced
Investment Trust papers, 1987
10 Balanced Investment Housing Trust, undated
11 Botts, Lee, statements, 1983
12 Bowne-Vincennes Block Club, 1983
13 Burgess, Chris, 1983
14 Burgess, Chris, notes, 1981-1983
Box 2
Folders:
1-2 Burgess, Chris, 1984
3 Business
opportunities seminar, 1984
4 Businesses
in fair area, 1981
5 By-laws,
1983-1984
6 Calendars,
1985-1987
7-8 Capital investments, 1984
9 Capital
investments in south lakefront communities, undated
10 Cartoons, 1982-1985
11 Center for Community Research and Assistance, 1983-1984
12 Center for Development in Chicago, 1986
13 Center for Neighborhood Technology, 1983-1984
14 Charts & maps, miscellaneous, undated
15 Chicago Central Area Committee symposium, 1982-1986
16 Chicago City Council: The Citizens Ordinance, 1982
Box 3
Folders:
1 Chicago
City Council: Committee on Human Rights, 1982
2 Chicago
City Council: Committee on Special Events, 1983-1985
3 Chicago
Economic Development Program, 1985
4 Chicago
Park District, 1983
5 Chicago
Plan Commission, 1984
6 Chicago
Near Fair Planning Committee, 1985
7 Chicago
Near Fair Planning Committee: Opportunities for World's Fair Residuals, 1984
8 Chicago
World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, 1983
9 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: advisory committee, 1984-1985
10 Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority: affirmative action committee
minutes, 1984-1985
11 Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority: affirmative action employment
policy, 1984
12 Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority: affirmative action plan,
1984
Box 4
Folders:
1 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: affirmative action policy, 1984
2 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: announcements, 1984-1985
3 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: Arthur D. Little, Inc., attendance estimates &
tabulations 1985
4 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: Arts, Culture, and Entertainment Committee, 1985
5 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: attendance and revenue projections, 1982
6 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: audit committee, 1985
7 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: Board of Appeals of Cook County, 1984
8 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: board of directors, correspondence, 1983-1985
9 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: board of directors meeting, Dec. 9, 1983
10 Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority: board of directors meeting,
Dec. 30, 1983
11 Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority: board of directors meeting,
Feb. 7-Mar. 27, 1984
12 Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority: board of directors meeting,
Apr. 25-June 5, 1984
13 Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority: board of directors meeting,
Sept. 28, 1984
14 Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority: board of directors meeting,
Nov. 5, 1984
15 Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority: board of directors meeting,
Mar. 5, 1985
16 Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority: board of directors meeting,
Apr. 23, 1985
Box 5
Folders:
1 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: board of directors meeting, May 7, 1985
2 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: budget committee, 1984-1985
3 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: budget committee meetings & minutes, 1984-1985
4 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: by-laws committee, 1984
5 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: Chicago World's Fair 1992 Corporation, 1985
6 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: Chicago World's Fair 1992 Corporation members,
1985
7 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: Citizens Guide, 1983
8 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: committees proposed, 1984
9 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: committee staff lists, 1983-1985
10 Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority: Continental Bank report,
Sept. 12, 1983
11 Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority: correspondence, 1983-1984
12 Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority: environmental committee
meetings, 1984-1985
13 Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority: environmental committee
notes, 1983
14 Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority: essay contest, 1983
15 Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority: executive committee, 1984
Box 6
Folders:
1 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: executive committee meetings and minutes,
1984-1985
2 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: Fair Planning Coordination Group, 1984-1985
3 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: financial statements, 1983
4 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: great thinkers list, undated
5 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: hearing, Sept. 14, 1983
6 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: intergovernmental agreement, 1984
7 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: intergovernmental agreement with Chicago Park
District, 1985
8 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: intergovernmental agreement coordination meeting,
1984
9 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: intergovernmental committee meetings & minutes,
1984-1985
10 Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority: intergovernmental cooperative
agreement, 1984
11 Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority: Mayor's Advisory Committee, executive
summary, 1983
12 Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority: membership analysis, 1983
13 Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority: neighborhood and community committee,
1985
Box 7
Folders:
1 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: preliminary outline project description, 1985
2 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: presentation report by Mayor Jane Byrne, 1982
3 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: professional positions, 1984
4 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: program and crowd control, 1984
5 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: satellite site selection criteria, 1985
6 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: site study, 1984
7 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: speakers advisory committee, 1985
8 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: speakers advisory panel theme catalog, 1984-1985
9 Chicago
World's Fair 1992 Authority: transportation committee, 1982
10 Chicago World's Fair 1992 Authority: women's committee, 1983-1984
11 Clippings & articles, 1976-1978
12 Clippings & articles, 1980-1981
13 Clippings & articles, Feb.-Apr. 1982
Box 8
Folders:
1 Clippings
& articles, May-Aug. 1982
2 Clippings
& articles, Sept.-Dec. 1982
3 Clippings
& articles, Jan.-Mar. 1983
4 Clippings
& articles, Apr. 1983
5 Clippings
& articles, May-June 1983
6 Clippings
& articles, July-Aug. 1983
7 Clippings
& articles, Sept.-Oct. 1983
8 Clippings
& articles, Nov.-Dec. 1983
9 Clippings
& articles, Jan. 1984
10 Clippings & articles, Feb. 1984
11 Clippings & articles, Mar. 1984
12 Clippings & articles, Apr. 1984
Box 9
Folders:
1 Clippings
& articles, May 1984
2 Clippings
& articles, June 1984
3 Clippings
& articles, July 1984
4 Clippings
& articles, Aug. 1984
5 Clippings
& articles, Sept. 1984
6 Clippings
& articles, Oct. 1984
7 Clippings
& articles, Nov. 1984
8 Clippings
& articles, Dec. 1984
9 Clippings
& articles, Jan. 1985
10 Clippings & articles, Feb. 1985
11 Clippings & articles, Mar. 1985
12 Clippings & articles, Apr. 1985
13 Clippings & articles, May 1985
14 Clippings & articles, June-Aug. 1985
15 Clippings & articles, Sept.-Oct. 1985
Box 10
Folders:
1 Clippings
& articles, Nov.-Dec. 1985
2 Clippings
& articles, Jan.-May 1986
3 Clippings
& articles, June 1986
4 Clippings
& articles, July-Dec. 1986
5 Community
development block grant, 1984
6 Community
Renewal Society, 1983-1984
7 Community
projects, 1985
8 Conference,
1982-1983
9 Correspondence,
1982
10 Correspondence, Jan.-Mar. 1983
11-12 Correspondence, Apr. 1983
13 Correspondence, May 1983
Box 11
Folders:
1 Correspondence,
June-Aug. 1983
2 Correspondence,
Sept.-Dec. 1983
3 Correspondence,
1983 City Hall
4 Correspondence,
Jan.-Feb. 1984
5 Correspondence,
Mar. 1984
6 Correspondence,
Apr.-May 1984
7 Correspondence,
June-July 1984
8 Correspondence,
Aug.-Sept. 1984
9 Correspondence,
Oct.-Dec. 1984
10 Correspondence, 1984 handwritten notes
11 Correspondence, Jan.-Mar. 1985
12 Correspondence, Apr. 1985
Box 12
Folders:
1 Correspondence,
May 1985
2 Correspondence,
June 1985
3 Correspondence,
July-Aug. 1985
4 Correspondence,
Oct.-Dec. 1985
5 Correspondence,
Jan.-Apr. 1986
6 Correspondence,
May-June 1986
7 Correspondence,
July-Aug. 1986
8 Correspondence,
Sept.-Dec. 1986
9 Correspondence,
Jan.-Mar. 1987
10 Correspondence, Apr.-June 1987
11 Correspondence, July-Dec. 1987
12 Correspondence, Jan.-Apr. 1988
13 Correspondence, May-July 1988
Box 13
Folders:
1 Correspondence,
Aug.-Dec. 1988
2 Donor's
Forum of Chicago, 1983-1985
3 Economic
impact analysis of Expo 86, 1984
4 Economic
impact study of Expo 67, 1983
5 EIP
Great Lakes, 1985
6 Employment
& 1992 Chicago World's Fair, 1984
7 Employment
& 1992 Chicago World's Fair drafts, 1984
8 Enterprise
business park proposal, undated
9 Environmental
impact statement, 1983
10 Environmental impact statement, 1984
11 Environmental impact statement critique, 1984
12 Environmental impact statement workshop, 1985
13 Evaluation of economic development program, undated
14 Expo '88 at Brisbane, Australia, 1988
Box 14
Folders:
1-2 Fair planning workshop, 1983
3 Fair
Review Council, 1981-1982
4 Fair
Review Council, 1983-1984
5 "Fall
of the Fair," booklet by Robert McClory, draft, 1985
6 Feasibility
& benefit study by Arthur D. Little, Inc. 1985
7 Feasibility
& benefit study by Arthur D. Little, Inc., excerpts 1985
8 Feasibility
study: independent, 1984
9 Financial:
bank statements, 1984
Box 15
Folders:
1 Financial:
bank statements, 1985
2 Financial:
bank statements, 1986
3 Financial:
bank statements, 1987
4 Financial:
bank statements, 1988-1989
5 Financial:
budget, 1983
6 Financial:
budget, 1984
7 Financial:
cost/revenue estimates, 1981
8 Financial:
employment issues, 1985
9 Financial:
expense records, 1983-1986
10 Financial: expense records, 1987
11 Financial: expense records, 1988
12 Financial: information, 1984-1985
Box 16
Folders:
1 Financial:
invoices, 1983-1984
2 Financial:
invoices, Jan.-Apr. 1985
3 Financial:
invoices, May-Dec. 1985
4 Financial:
invoices, 1986-1988
5 Financial:
ledger sheets, 1986-1987
6 Financial
legislative task force report, 1984
7 Financial
outlook draft, 1985
8 Financial
plan, 1985
9 Financial:
reports, 1984-1985
10 Financial statements, 1983
11 Financial statements, 1985-1986
12 Financial statements, 1987
13 Financial tax forms, 1985
14 Financial tax information, 1984-1986
15 Financial: tax reports, 1984
16 Financial: tax reports, 1985
Box 17
Folders:
1 Financial:
tax reports, 1986
2 Financial:
tax reports, 1987
3 Financial:
tax reports, 1988-1989
4 Forty-four
days into a world's fair, 1984
5 Foundations:
Allstate, 1987-1988
6 Foundations:
Borg Warner, 1987-1988
7 Foundations:
Chicago Community Trust, 1984
8 Foundations:
correspondence, miscellaneous, 1983, 1988
9 Foundations:
Crossroads Fund, 1985
10 Foundations: Crossroads Fund, 1986-1988
11 Foundations: Cudahy Fund, 1988
12 Foundations: Dr. Scholl, 1988
13 Foundations: Fel-Pro, 1988
14 Foundations: Joyce, 1982-1983
15 Foundations: Joyce, 1984-1985
16 Foundations: Joyce, 1986-1988
Box 18
Folders:
1 Foundations:
MacArthur, 1988
2 Foundations:
New Prospect, 1984
3 Foundations:
Wieboldt, 1984
4 Foundations:
Woods Charitable Fund, 1983-1984
5 Foundations:
Woods Charitable Fund, 1987
6 Foundations:
miscellaneous, 1983-1987
7 Foundations:
miscellaneous, 1988
8 Framework
committee, 1983
9 Friends
of the Earth, alternate site, undated
10 Funding proposal, 1983-1988
11 General fair issues, 1982-1985
12 General membership meetings, 1983
13 General membership meetings, 1984
14 General membership meetings, 1985
Box 19
Folders:
1 General
membership meetings, 1986-1987
2 Heartland
Institute, 1984-1985
3 Highway
financing, 1983-1985
4 Hotel/motel
tax fact sheet, 1984
5 Illinois
General Assembly, 1981-1983
6 Illinois
General Assembly, 1984
7 Illinois
General Assembly, 1985-1986
8 Illinois
General Assembly, House Select Committee, 1984
9-10 Illinois General Assembly, legislation, 1983
11 Illinois General Assembly, legislation, 1984
12 Illinois General Assembly, Meeting of the Whole, 1984
Box 20
Folders:
1 Institute
on Taxation and Economic Policy Studies, 1985
2 Internal
Revenue Service, 1988
3 Job
training and recruitment, 1984
4 Knoxville
World's Fair, 1982
5 Latinos
and the fair, 1984
6 Laventhol
& Horwath, critique of methodology, 1985
7 Laventhol
& Horwath, independent feasibility & benefit study, 1984
8 Los
Angeles Olympics, 1984
9 Louisiana
World Exposition, 1984
Box 21
Folders:
1 Louisiana
World Exposition: articles & studies, 1984
2-4 Louisiana World Exposition: articles & studies, clippings,
1984
5 Louisiana
World Exposition: articles & studies, documentation, 1984
6 Louisiana
World Exposition: articles & studies, leaflets, cards, etc., 1984
7 Louisiana
World Exposition: articles & studies, supplemental report, 1980
8 Marketing
plans, 1982-1983
9 Mayor's
Advisory Commission fact finding reports, 1983
10 Mayor’s Advisory Commission hearings/testimony, 1983
11 Mayor's Advisory Commission on Latino Affairs, 1984
Box 22
Folders:
1 Mayor's
Advisory Commission on Latino Affairs, 1984
2 Media
broadcast/air editorials, 1983-1985
3 Meetings,
miscellaneous, 1983-1984
4 Membership
correspondence, 1984-1985
5 Membership
mailing lists, 1982-1985
6-7 Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council, capital improvements
financing, 1984
8 Montreal
1967 fair, undated
9 Museum
Campus master plan, 1985
10 National Register of Historic Places, 1983
11 Near South Plan, 1985
12 Neighborhood organizations mailing list, undated
13 Neighborhood report, 1985
14 Notes--handwritten, 1982-1983
15 Notes--handwritten, L. Kleinberg, 1982-1983
Box 23
Folders:
1 Offsite
infrastructure requirements, 1984
2 Opinion
poll, 1985
3 Outreach
committee, 1984
4 Parking
plan, 1985
5 Personnel,
1985
6 Personnel
attendance record, 1984-1988
7 Personnel
health insurance, 1983-1987
8 Policy
analysis, 1982
9 Position
statements, 1982
10-11 Position statements, 1983
12-13 Position statements, 1984
Box 24
Folders:
1 Position
statements, 1984
2-5 Position statements, 1985
6 Position
statements, 1988
7 Position
statements, undated
8 Press
releases, 1982-1983
9 Press
releases, 1984
10 Press releases, 1985
11 Projects of Chicago, undated
12 Proposals--handwritten notes, 1986
13 Public issues committee, 1982-1984
14 Questionnaire tally, 1985
15 Questions amidst the dazzle, 1982-1983
16 Rally, 1985
Box 25
Folders:
1 The Reader, 1985
2 Resolutions,
1983-1984
3 Save
the Lake Association, 1984
4 Scoping
hearing, 1983
5 Scoping
hearing documents 1 & 2
6 Scoping
hearing document 3
7 Scoping
hearing document 4
8 Scoping
hearing document 5
9 Scoping
hearing notes, 1983
10 Seminars, 1983
11 Seville, Spain, fair site, 1984
12 Sewers, undated
13 Site committee, 1980-1983
Box 26
Folders:
1 Site
location, 1983-1984
2 Small
Business Forum, 1985
3 Southside
Planning Board, 1978
4 Southwest
Community Congress, 1983-1984
5 Staff
notes, 1983
6 Staff
notes, 1984
7 Staff
notes, 1985-1986
8 Statewide
conference, 1985
9 Steering
committee, 1980-1983
10-11 Steering committee, 1984
12 Steering committee, 1985
13 Steering committee, 1986
Box 27
Folders:
1-2 Steering committee, 1987
3 Steering
committee financial reports, 1984
4 Steering
committee membership, 1984
5 Steering
committee notes, 1983-1984
6 Steering
committee statements & papers, 1984
7-8 Survey responses, 1983
9 Survey
summaries, undated
10 Task Force on World's Fair Financing, 1984
11 Testimony, 1983
12 Testimony, 1984
Box 28
Folders:
1 Testimony,
1984
2 Testimony,
1985
3 Testimony:
Frankie Knibb, 1983-1984
4 Testimony:
Parking subcommittee, 1985
5 Transportation
report, 1982
6 Transportation
study, 1982
7 Tsukuba
Expo '85
8 U.S.
Steel South works analysis, 1985
9 Urban
development action grants, 1986
Box 29
Folders:
1 Utilities
report, 1982
2 Wail
at the Wake guest book, 1985
3-4 World's Fair Advisory Committee, 1983
5 World's
fairs summaries, 1982-1983
Box 30
Audio
Materials (0MM.173)
20 cassettes