Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report of the Illinois Mississippi Canal and Sinnissippi Lake Commission to His Excellency Otto Kerner Governor of the State of Illinois and Members of the Seventy-Second General Assembly: June 1, 1961
Northern Illinois, the destined center of a super-city, having no national park or national forests and a limited acreage in state parks, is destined to feel the brunt of this future demand for recreational space. By 1980, the Greater Chicago Region is expected to have a population of 10 million people needing a minimum of additional acres of land in large open space. The introduction of the interstate system will funnel a greater number of tourists through the region putting new demands on recreational lands. The Canal, being located at the intersection of Route 78 (south) and 80 (east-west) is well placed to fill this potential demand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
