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The Electronic Documents of Illinois provides permanent public access to official publications of the State of Illinois which have been deposited in electronic form.

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Heartland Insurance - Danville, Illinois

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The Illinois MAIN STREET Program, through the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, has provided this free design assistance to qualified property/ business owners in the officially designated MAIN STREET project areas. The rendering on this sheet is a conceptual view of the facade renovation based on information supplied to the staff architect. Heartland Insurance Building located at 120 N. Vermilion, Danville, Illinois proposed project shows 2 designs with paint, awning colors, sign graphics and window designs.

Date Created:
01 2007

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Haney Building - Bloomington, Illinois

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The Illinois MAIN STREET Program, through the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, has provided this free design assistance to qualified property/ business owners in the officially designated MAIN STREET project areas. The rendering of Haney Building 403-407 W. Front Street, Bloomington, Illinois is a conceptual view of the facade renovation based on information supplied to the staff architect.

Date Created:
12 2005

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Governor Blagojevichs Healthcare Programs for Families: Member Handbook

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This handbook provides detailed information on Governor Blagojevichs Healthcare Programs for Families. These programs include All Kids, Moms and Babies, and FamilyCare.

Date Created:
03 2008

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Illinois Begins Implementation of New Tax Computer System

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Implementation of New Tax Computer System

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12 26 2007

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House Prosecutor's Motion for Additional Documents Based on Newly Discovered Information - Don Wade and Roma Show

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Motion from House Prosecutor David W. Ellis for admission of an audio recording and transcript of a radio interview of Governor Rod Blagojevich into evidence in the Senate Impeachment proceedings. Although after the deadline for admitting evidence, the broadcast had just occurred on January 23, 2009.

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01 24 2009

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Chemical and biological survey of the waters of Illinois: report for the year ending December 31, 1908

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Edmund Janes James, Ph. D., LL. D., President University of Illinois: SIR: Herewith I submit a report of the work of the State Water Survey for the year ending December 31, 1908, and request that it be printed as a bulletin of the University of Illinois, State Water Survey Series No. 7. The report includes a brief description of the work done during the year ending December 31, 1908, with a summary, by years, of analyses made since the foundation of the Survey and a summary; by months, of analyses made during the year. There is also included in the report an article describing the scientific work done at the laboratories of the State Water Survey in the investigation of methods of analysis. A description is given of difficulties experienced with incrustation in the discharge pipe at the filtration plant at Quincy, Illinois. Investigations of farm water supplies in several parts of the State are described. An article entitled 'Hardness of Illinois Municipal Water Supplies' shows the character of the mineral matter contained in the various municipal water supplies. Our latest conclusions concerning the methods of 'Interpretation of Results' are included and there is also a chapter giving data concerning municipal water supplies which has been collected since the publication of Bulletin No. 5. Special thanks are due to the regular laboratory staff for their assistance in this work, to Mr. J. S. Rogers for the article on 'Determination of Nitrates in Drinking Water,' to Dr. A. W. Sellards for the article on 'Current Methods of Sanitary Water Analysis,' to Mr. W. R. Gelston, Superintendent Quincy Water Works, for the description of the methods of removing incrustation from the water main at Quincy, and to Miss Mabel Bush for the compilation of the data concerning municipal water supplies. Respectfully submitted, EDWARD BARTOW, Director.

Date Created:
2005-07-25

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Effective discharges of Illinois streams

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The hydrologic regime of a natural stream is usually highly complex and encompasses a wide range of discharges. The magnitudes and frequencies at which the various discharges occur play a key role in creating the channel's morphology. The concept of 'dominant discharge' proposes that there exists a single steady discharge that, theoretically, if constantly maintained in a stream over a long period of time would form and maintain the same basic stable channel dimensions as those produced by the long-term natural hydrograph. This theoretical discharge is referred to as a stream's dominant discharge. If such a dominant discharge exists and can be accurately calculated, this discharge can be one of the tools that stream restoration personnel use to help design channels that are morphologically stable, i.e., not experiencing either excessive erosion or sediment deposition. There is no direct method to calculate a stream's dominant discharge, and stream researchers have commonly assumed that the dominant discharge can be equated with either the stream's bankfull discharge, a specific flood recurrence interval, or the stream's effective discharge. The purpose of this study is to analyze the available data and existing computational methods for the third approach, that being the estimation of effective discharges specific to Illinois streams. The effective discharge of a stream is defined as the single discharge rate that carries the most sediment over time. Note that the effective discharge is not typically a discharge associated with the most extreme flood events, which may carry large amounts of sediment load but occur infrequently. Instead it is commonly considered to be a moderately high discharge having a more modest load, but occurring frequently enough that in the long-run it carries more sediment than the extreme flood events. To facilitate computations, the effective discharge is estimated as occurring within a discharge class or increment, rather than as a single discharge. Effective discharge can be estimated using data on suspended sediment load, bed load, bed material, or total sediment load, with the method of estimation depending on the sediment transport characteristics of the stream, available data, and, to some degree, the researcher's school of thought. For this study, estimates of effective discharges are based on the suspended sediment load, which is the dominant load in most Illinois streams. Suspended sediment data collected at 88 gaging stations within Illinois were analyzed to determine which gaging stations in Illinois currently have sufficient suspended sediment data available to estimate effective discharges. A procedure was adapted from previous research and implemented to compute effective discharge values for each stream location having sufficient suspended sediment data. For each of those gaging stations, an estimate was made of the flow frequency at which the effective discharge was equaled or exceeded. For stations having adequate sediment data, flood recurrence intervals associated with effective discharge values were computed using annual maximum flow data. Correlation coefficients (r2) for 12 linear regressions are presented to describe the relationship between six effective discharge parameters and channel slope and watershed area. The data from 20 of the 88 gaging stations were deemed sufficient for computing effective discharge values. These 20 gaging stations were located on streams with watershed areas ranging from 244 to 6363 square miles (mi2). The relatively large watershed areas allow use of mean daily discharge values in computing effective discharge values. The annual maximum series analysis indicated that recurrence intervals associated with effective discharges found at these stations ranged from less than 1.01 years to 1.23 years. Such recurrence intervals are on the low end of the 1- to 3-year recurrence intervals commonly reported in other studies. However, these recurrence intervals are representative of Illinois' larger watersheds, and recurrence intervals of effective discharges in smaller Illinois watersheds could be quite different. Of the 20 qualified stations, 20 percent had effective discharge estimates that were less than the station's average mean daily discharge. Such low magnitude flow events are not usually associated with a stream's dominant discharge. Thus, geomorphic assessments and bankfull computations are required to further assess whether these and other effective discharge values are representative of the 20 individual streams' dominant discharges. Due to the small sample size, regression analyses relating specific effective discharge parameters to channel slope and watershed area were inconclusive. Effective discharge computations are particularly sensitive to how the sediment rating curve used in the computation is developed and the number of discharge classes used in the computation. The sampling frequency and duration over which the sediment samples used to create sediment rating curves also may influence effective discharge computations significantly. Thus, while stream restoration personnel will likely continue to use these and other effective discharge values as part of several tools in hydraulic and channel design applications, uncertainties in their use should be acknowledged and undue weight should not be assigned these values, as they cannot yet be expected to yield fully reliable results in applications. Like previous researchers, we recommend more comprehensive investigations that compare effective discharge estimates to bankfull discharges in combination with a geomorphic assessment of each stream's characteristics to yield a better understanding of whether currently computed effective discharge values adequately represent dominant discharges in Illinois. Suspended sediment represents the dominant sediment load in most Illinois streams. In some cases, effective discharge computations based on total loads or bed material loads may be more appropriate than using suspended sediment loads analyzed here. However, the bed load, bed material, bank material, local channel slope, and channel cross-section information required to perform these computations and analyses are almost nonexistent. While many of these data can be collected at selected stream locations, inherent difficulties in estimating bed loads in Illinois streams make this approach unfeasible. New technologies for sampling or estimating bed load most likely would need to be developed and tested. This analysis presents a comprehensive assessment of effective discharges based on the available suspended sediment and flow data in Illinois. Long-term sediment data sets are needed at more stream locations to more fully estimate and understand effective and dominant discharges in Illinois streams. The greatest need for additional data is for smaller watersheds less than approximately 200 mi2 because most potential applications of the effective discharge concept in stable channel design are for smaller watersheds. Smaller watersheds also may have significantly different geomorphic characteristics and effective discharges may behave differently than those in larger watersheds. The Illinois State Water Survey currently is measuring suspended sediment at gaging stations on 13 small watersheds, which could prove very useful in effective discharge analysis as longer data records become available at these sites.

Date Created:
2004-09-24

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Distribution of Arsenic in the Mahomet Aquifer of Central Illinois, USA

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The purpose of the Illinois State Water Survey study was to assimilate data from studies and databases to make a preliminary assessment of the extent of arsenic contamination in the Mahomet aquifer and determine how the new maximum contaminant level would affect water supplies.

Date Created:
2001-12-17

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Doe v. Dilling - Opinion with drawn, originally filed on 9/1/06

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Doe v. Dilling - Opinion withdraw, originally filed on 9/1/06 SIXTH DIVISION December 22, 2006 No. 1-04-2372 JANE DOE, Plaintiff-Appellee and Cross-Appellant, v. ELIZABETH DILLING, Individually, and as Executor of the Estate of Kirkpatrick Dilling, Deceased, Defendants-Appellants and Cross-Appellees (Dilling and Dilling, Defendant). Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County. No. 00 L 5079 Honorable Leonard L. Levin, Judge Presiding.

Date Created:
2006-12-27

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Disproportionate Sentencing of Minority Drug Offenders in Illinois: Report on Changes in Drug Laws 1985-2002

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Racial disproportionality in prison admissions for drug crimes in Illinois prompted the Authority to commission a more in-depth analysis of the problem. The products of the analysis were slated to appear in four complementary reports examining the disproportionate confinement of minority drug offenders. The first discussed racial disparities in criminal justice processing for drug crimes at the national level and provided the background for the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority-commissioned analysis (Lurigio, 2004). The current report, which is the second in the series, is designed to promote a basic understanding of the structure and content of Illinois' drug laws. It discusses the major components of those laws as originally drafted as well as additions and enhancements to those laws that were enacted from 1985 to 2002.

Date Created:
2006-11-17

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