Items listed under State Documents have been received by the Documents Unit, Illinois State Library, Springfield, and are usually available from public libraries in the state through interlibrary loan. Issuing agencies may have copies available. For items listed under Other Reports, write to the publisher as noted.

State Documents

■ Rural Development Resource Guide, Department of Commerce and Community Affairs, Office of Urban Assistance, 620 E. Adams St., Springfield 62701 (August 1988), 49 pp.

As part of a general effort to bring about a "rural renaissance," Gov. James R. Thompson last year created the Rural Fair Share Initiative, the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs at Western Illinois University at Macomb, the Center for Value Added Agriculture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Rural Affairs Council. The latter group did much of the work resulting in this guide. It reflects input from the 11 state agencies that comprise the council and includes descriptions of 146 programs and services offered by state and federal agencies.

■ Regional Pollution Control Facility Siting in Illinois, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Government and Community Affairs, 2200 Churchill Rd., Springfield 62706 (June 1988), 27 pp.

The IEPA's earlier report, Available Disposal Capacity for Solid Waste in Illinois, pointed out the limited capacity of sites in this state and showed the need for information about the statewide experience in landfill siting. The present report includes statistics on all types of regional pollution control facilities: landfills, incinerators, transfer stations, storage, and treatment facilities. It covers the period from November 12, 1981, to April 30, 1988.

Other Reports

■ Non-Profits with Hard Hats: Building Affordable Housing, by Christine K. Kelly, Donald C. Kelly and Ed Marciniak; available from Institute of Urban Life, 1 E. Superior, Chicago 60611 (1988), 125 pp.; $9.95 plus $1 handling. Each of the six case studies presented in this slender volume is an extraordinary and inspiring story. All of them explore how local non-profit housing sponsors and community organizations met difficult market challenges to provide more affordable housing to low- and moderate-income families in a variety of Chicago neighborhoods. What is more, these initiatives became the turning points in diverting those neighborhoods from precipitous decline.

Anna J. Merritt

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