Committee on Allerton Park Records, 1961-76 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Correspondence, clippings, data, depositions, legislation, lists, maps, memos, minutes, petitions, press releases, questionnaires, reports, and testimony relating to the activities of the Committee on Allerton Park, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, The Planning Advisory Committee of Allerton Park, the Decatur Club, the Springer Sangamon Environmental Research Program, and state and local governments regarding the Oakley & Friends Creek Reservoir proposals and modifications, environmental impact research, legislative and legal progress of proposed legislation and the organization of opposition to the proposals. Principal correspondents include Committee Directors Bruce Hannon and Jack Paxton.