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Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission records

Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of Illinois at Chicago, Special Collections (Richard J. Daley Library)
801 S. Morgan
Chicago, IL
USA
Repository Number
MSGLCC68
Creator
Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission (Chicago, Ill.).
Title
Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission records
Dates
1954-1968
Quantity
4.5 linear feet.
Abstract
The Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission was a community organization serving Chicago's central west side neighborhood of Lawndale. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, programs, legal and financial records, clippings, and published material.
Language of the Material
English

Administrative Information

Biography/Profile

The Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission was a community organization serving Chicago's central west side neighborhood of Lawndale. It was formed in 1954 as an interracial organization to serve as an information agency, a nucleus for block clubs, and a liaison between Lawndale and Chicago social service organizations. The Commission worked to improve local housing and schools and sponsored beautification projects in the area.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, programs, legal and financial records, clippings, and published material. The material pertains to the administration of the Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission and its committees in the fields of housing, education, and welfare. The collection also contains information on urban renewal, education, civil rights legislation, employment, and crime in Chicago.

Access Restrictions

Access restrictions -- Available without restriction.

Use/Re-use Restrictions

Use restrictions -- Available without restriction.

Preferred Citation

Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission records, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Inventory

I
Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission records
Box 1A - Folder 1
Container 1A
Title
Citizens School Committee
Dates
1953-1955
Box 1A - Folder 2
Container 1A
Title
Citizens School Committee
Dates
1956-1956
Box 1A - Folder 3
Container 1A
Title
Citizens School Committee
Dates
1957-1957
Box 1A - Folder 4
Container 1A
Title
Citizens School Committee
Dates
1958-1958
Box 1A - Folder 5
Container 1A
Title
Citizens School Committee
Dates
1959-1959
Box 1B - Folder 6
Container 1B
Title
Citizens School Committee - budget hearing
Dates
1959-1959
Box 1B - Folder 7
Container 1B
Title
Citizens School Committee, - budget hearing
Dates
1959-1959
Box 1B - Folder 8
Container 1B
Title
Citizens School Committee
Dates
1960-1960
Box 1B - Folder 9
Container 1B
Title
Citizens School Committee
Dates
1960-1960
Box 1B - Folder 10
Container 1B
Title
Citizens School Committee
Dates
1960-1960
Box 1B - Folder 11
Container 1B
Title
Citizens School Committee
Dates
1960-1960
Box 2A - Folder 12
Container 2A
Title
Citizens School Committee
Dates
1960-1960
Box 2A - Folder 13
Container 2A
Title
Citizens School Committee - double shift petitions
Dates
1960-1960
Box 2A - Folder 14
Container 2A
Title
Citizens School Committee - recreation questionnaire
Dates
1960-1960
Box 2A - Folder 15
Container 2A
Title
Financial reports
Dates
1965-1965
Box 2A - Folder 16
Container 2A
Title
Fund drive - financial records
Dates
1962-1962
Box 2A - Folder 17
Container 2A
Title
Fund drive - financial records
Dates
1963-1963
Box 2A - Folder 18
Container 2A
Title
Fund drive - financial records
Dates
1964-1964
Box 2A - Folder 19
Container 2A
Title
Fund drive
Dates
1964-1964
Box 2A - Folder 20
Container 2A
Title
Fund drive - large contributors
Dates
1964-1964
Box 2B - Folder 21
Container 2B
Title
Health and Welfare Committee - report
Dates
1964-1964
Box 2B - Folder 22
Container 2B
Title
Holiday Lighting Contest
Dates
1965-1966
Box 2B - Folder 23
Container 2B
Title
Holiday Lighting Contest
Dates
1965-1966
Box 2B - Folder 24
Container 2B
Title
"L" Miscellaneous
Dates
1964-1966
Box 2B - Folder 25
Container 2B
Title
Ladies Auxiliary
Dates
1959-1966
Box 2B - Folder 26
Container 2B
Title
Lake View Citizens' Council
Dates
1963-1966
Box 2B - Folder 27
Container 2B
Title
Lawndale Business Directory, undated
Box 2B - Folder 28
Container 2B
Title
Lawndale Citizens Committee
Dates
1965-1966
Box 2B - Folder 29
Container 2B
Title
Lawndale Clergymen in Christian Action
Dates
1965-1966
Box 2B - Folder 30
Container 2B
Title
Lawndale Community Calendar
Dates
1966-1966
Box 2B - Folder 31
Container 2B
Title
Lawndale Community Committee
Dates
1965-1965
Box 2B - Folder 32
Container 2B
Title
Lawndale Conservation Community Council
Dates
1965-1965
Box 2B - Folder 33
Container 2B
Title
Lawndale Executives' Group
Dates
1961-1966
Box 2B - Folder 34
Container 2B
Title
Lawndale for Better Jobs
Dates
1965-1965
Box 2B - Folder 35
Container 2B
Title
Lawndale Neighborhood Services
Dates
1961-1964
Box 2B - Folder 36
Container 2B
Title
Lawndale Urban Progress Center
Dates
1965-1966
Box 2B - Folder 37
Container 2B
Title
Lawndale Workers' Association
Dates
1962-1965
Box 2B - Folder 38
Container 2B
Title
Lawndale Youth Council
Dates
1865-1966
Box 2B - Folder 39
Container 2B
Title
Lawndale Youth Mobilization
Dates
1961-1962
Box 2B - Folder 40
Container 2B
Title
Legal Aid Bureau
Dates
1965-1966
Box 2B - Folder 41
Container 2B
Title
Little Village Community Council
Dates
1965-1965
Box 2B - Folder 42
Container 2B
Title
Logan Square Neighborhood Association
Dates
1964-1964
Box 2B - Folder 43
Container 2B
Title
Marcy Center
Dates
1964-1966
Box 3A - Folder 44
Container 3A
Title
Mrs. Daisy Matthews
Dates
1965-1966
Box 3A - Folder 45
Container 3A
Title
Membership Drives
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3A - Folder 46
Container 3A
Title
Mentally Handicapped
Dates
1965-1966
Box 3A - Folder 47
Container 3A
Title
Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council of Chicago
Dates
1964-1965
Box 3A - Folder 48
Container 3A
Title
Midwest Youth and Community Committee
Dates
1966-1966
Box 3A - Folder 49
Container 3A
Title
Miles Square Federation
Dates
1964-1964
Box 3A - Folder 50
Container 3A
Title
Miscellaneous
Dates
1950-1965
Box 3A - Folder 51
Container 3A
Title
NAACP
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3A - Folder 52
Container 3A
Title
NAACP - school materials
Dates
1958-1959
Box 3A - Folder 53
Container 3A
Title
National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials
Dates
1964-1968
Box 3A - Folder 54
Container 3A
Title
National Casting Company
Dates
1964-1964
Box 3A - Folder 55
Container 3A
Title
Negro History Week
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3A - Folder 56
Container 3A
Title
Neighborhood Youth Corps
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3A - Folder 57
Container 3A
Title
Newsletter material
Dates
1964-1966
Box 3A - Folder 58
Container 3A
Title
Newspaper Clippings
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3A - Folder 59
Container 3A
Title
North Eastern Illinois Planning Commission
Dates
1964-1965
Box 3A - Folder 60
Container 3A
Title
North Lawndale Girl Scout Sponsors
Dates
undated
Box 3A - Folder 61
Container 3A
Title
"O" Miscellaneous
Dates
1963-1963
Box 3A - Folder 62
Container 3A
Title
Operation Headstart
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3A - Folder 63
Container 3A
Title
Operation Pride
Dates
1964-1965
Box 3A - Folder 64
Container 3A
Title
Pepsi-Cola dinner
Dates
1964-1964
Box 3A - Folder 65
Container 3A
Title
Personnel practices
Dates
undated
Box 3A - Folder 66
Container 3A
Title
Physically handicapped - service directory
Dates
1962-1962
Box 3A - Folder 67
Container 3A
Title
Pilsen Neighbors Community Council
Dates
1964-1964
Box 3A - Folder 68
Container 3A
Title
Politics in Illinois
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3A - Folder 69
Container 3A
Title
Proxy forms
Dates
undated
Box 3A - Folder 70
Container 3A
Title
Public Relations forum
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3A - Folder 71
Container 3A
Title
Red Cross
Dates
undated
Box 3A - Folder 72
Container 3A
Title
Reports from staff members
Dates
1964-1965
Box 3A - Folder 73
Container 3A
Title
Resignations and terminations
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3A - Folder 74
Container 3A
Title
Rockwell Herald
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3A - Folder 75
Container 3A
Title
Rogers Park Community Council
Dates
1964-1964
Box 3A - Folder 76
Container 3A
Title
Sanborn Map Company
Dates
1964-1965
Box 3A - Folder 77
Container 3A
Title
School Health Forms
Dates
undated
Box 3A - Folder 78
Container 3A
Title
Schools Advisory Committee
Dates
1963-1966
Box 3B - Folder 79
Container 3B
Title
Sears Roebuck and Company
Dates
1964-1964
Box 3B - Folder 80
Container 3B
Title
Sears Roebuck and Company
Dates
1965-1966
Box 3B - Folder 81
Container 3B
Title
Senior Citizen Program
Dates
1964-1965
Box 3B - Folder 82
Container 3B
Title
South Central Alliance
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3B - Folder 83
Container 3B
Title
South Central Planning Council
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3B - Folder 84
Container 3B
Title
Staff memoranda
Dates
1965-1966
Box 3B - Folder 85
Container 3B
Title
Staff roster
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3B - Folder 86
Container 3B
Title
Statements - financial
Dates
undated
Box 3B - Folder 87
Container 3B
Title
Subcommittee on Employment
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3B - Folder 88
Container 3B
Title
Subcommittee on Public Health Services
Dates
1964-1965
Box 3B - Folder 89
Container 3B
Title
Subcommittee on Social Services
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3B - Folder 90
Container 3B
Title
Telegrams
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3B - Folder 91
Container 3B
Title
Time Records
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3B - Folder 92
Container 3B
Title
Town Hall Meetings
Dates
undated
Box 3B - Folder 93
Container 3B
Title
Trainee Minutes
Dates
1966-1966
Box 3B - Folder 94
Container 3B
Title
Trainee Program
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3B - Folder 95
Container 3B
Title
Trainee Work
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3B - Folder 96
Container 3B
Title
Trumbull Park Community Center
Dates
1964-1966
Box 3B - Folder 97
Container 3B
Title
Tutoring
Dates
undated
Box 3B - Folder 98
Container 3B
Title
Twelfth Night Soiree
Dates
1964-1965
Box 3B - Folder 99
Container 3B
Title
University of Chicago Social Service
Dates
1966-1966
Box 3B - Folder 100
Container 3B
Title
Urban Progress Center
Dates
1965-1966
Box 3B - Folder 101
Container 3B
Title
Villa Venice Dance
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3B - Folder 102
Container 3B
Title
Voter Registration
Dates
undated
Box 3B - Folder 103
Container 3B
Title
"W" Miscellaneous
Dates
1965-1966
Box 3B - Folder 104
Container 3B
Title
War on Poverty
Dates
1965-1966
Box 3B - Folder 105
Container 3B
Title
Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago
Dates
1964-1965
Box 3C - Folder 106
Container 3C
Title
Welfare Public Relations Forum
Dates
1964-1965
Box 3C - Folder 107
Container 3C
Title
West Lawndale Citizens' Council
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3C - Folder 108
Container 3C
Title
West Side Association for Community Action
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3C - Folder 109
Container 3C
Title
West Side Baptist Ministers
Dates
undated
Box 3C - Folder 110
Container 3C
Title
West Side Career-O-Rama
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3C - Folder 111
Container 3C
Title
West Side Employment Opportunities Fair
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3C - Folder 112
Container 3C
Title
West Side Planning Committee for Mental Health
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3C - Folder 113
Container 3C
Title
West Side Real Estate Board
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3C - Folder 114
Container 3C
Title
Youth Conference Committee
Dates
1965-1965
Box 3C - Folder 115
Container 3C
Title
WYWK
Dates
1964-1964
Box 3C - Folder 116
Container 3C
Title
Chicago Commission on Human Relations - reports
Dates
1960-1963
Box 3C - Folder 117
Container 3C
Title
Chicago Metropolitan Planning materials
Dates
1954-1960
Box 3C - Folder 118
Container 3C
Title
Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Materials
Dates
1957-1957
Box 3C - Folder 119
Container 3C
Title
Employment materials
Dates
undated
Box 3C - Folder 120
Container 3C
Title
Employment surveys
Dates
1959-1962
Box 3C - Folder 121
Container 3C
Title
Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission - reports
Dates
1955-1965
Box 4 - Folder 122
Container 4
Title
Housing and Urban Renewal Materials
Dates
1960-1964
Box 4 - Folder 123
Container 4
Title
Illinois statutes
Dates
1954-1966
Box 4 - Folder 124
Container 4
Title
Lawndale Service Directory
Dates
1965-1971
Box 4 - Folder 125
Container 4
Title
Medical materials
Dates
undated
Box 4 - Folder 126
Container 4
Title
Misc. published materials
Dates
1954-1961
Box 4 - Folder 127
Container 4
Title
Neighborhood change materials
Dates
1955-1959
Box 4 - Folder 128
Container 4
Title
Neighborhood organization materials
Dates
1958-1959
Box 4 - Folder 129
Container 4
Title
Neighborhood rehabilitation
Dates
1958-1958
Box 5A - Folder 130
Container 5A
Title
Public schools materials
Dates
1964-1965
Box 5A - Folder 131
Container 5A
Title
Social services
Dates
1963-1964
Box 5A - Folder 132
Container 5A
Title
Transportation materials
Dates
1964-1965
Box 5A - Folder 133
Container 5A
Title
U.S. Census - housing
Dates
1960-1960
Box 5A - Folder 134
Container 5A
Title
U.S. Census - population
Dates
undated
Box 5A - Folder 135
Container 5A
Title
YMCA and YWCA
Dates
1959-1962