State Reports
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.
State Documents
'Environmental Action in Progress, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, P.O.
Box 19276. Springfield 62794 (June 1994), 40
pp.
The Illinois Environmental Protection
Agency has worked closely with the U.S. EPA
on cleaning up Superfund sites since 1980
when the federal law was passed. This report
describes the progress made on 10 of the 38
sites on the National Priorities List in this
state, as well as two additional sites that have
been proposed for the list. It also contains brief
summaries of additional federal facilities that
may be candidates for inclusion at some future
time.
The 10 sites discussed more fully are:
LaSalle Electric Utilities (placed on the list in
1983), the Ilada Energy site in Alexander
County (1989), Velsicol Chemical Corp. in
Marshall (1983), Belvidere Municipal Landfill (1982), Lenz Oil Service in DuPage County (1989), the Byron Salvage Yard in Rockford (1983), Central Illinois Public Service
Co. in Taylorville (1990), Koppers Wood
Treatment Facility in Galesburg (1983), Crab
Orchard Wildlife Refuge in Carterville (1987),
and Southeast Rockford (1989). The report
contains a number of graphs
and color photographs.
•Illinois at War, 1941-1945: A Selection of
Documents from the Illinois State Archives,
State Archives, Springfield 62756.
The 50 documents included in this set
cover a wide range of topics and styles. They
range from a letter to the parents of a sailor
killed in the raid on Pearl Harbor to a resolution of the Polish Roman Catholic Union of
America concerning the partition of their
homeland. Included in this selection are diagrams ranging from byproducts from a 1,000-
pound horse to a victory garden.
For each document, the accompanying
teacher's manual provides an explanation as
well as some points to consider, making it an
ideal tool for the high school history or social
studies classroom. The manual also offers suggestions on using the documents in various
combinations and sequences. A 10-page section entitled "Historical Background" is followed by a bibliography of secondary sources.
However, this publication would be useful
to any history buff, with or without children.
Anna J. Merritt
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