Wilmington Dam

Collected by: Wilmington Public Library District

Archived since: Jan, 2022

Description:

Dam in Wilmington, IL over Kankakee River ; history and issues

Subject: Government, Society & Culture, Wilmington Dam

Creator: Tricia Dean

Format: webpages, articles

Date: 11/06/2022

Rights: Multiple copyrighted newspaper articles; government publication which is public access

Language: English

Cover Photo: Cover photo from Daily Journal [Kankakee, IL] 5/31/2018

Collector: Tricia Dean

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URL: http://freepressnewspapers.com/content/city-officials-dnr-meet-over-wilmington-dam/

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description: The Kankakee River dam has been both a local landmark and a thorn in the side of city leaders for decades. This week, the city will host a public meeting in an effort to come up with some reasonable solutions for the dam, including whether the time has come to finally say goodbye to it. On Thursday, the Wilmington City Council will meet for a special 5:30 p.m. session. On the

title: City officials, DNR to meet over Wilmington dam | Free Press Newspapers

URL: http://freepressnewspapers.com/content/dam-committee-ready-present-first-ideas-wilmington-city-council/

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description: After meeting for the past few months, Wilmington’s ad-hoc dam committee is ready to present its first suggestion to the City Council regarding potential safety improvements along the Kankakee River dam. The committee was created in the fall, when Mayor Ben Dietz asked for citizens and a handful of members from the City Council to take on the issue, in order to focus on the

title: Dam committee ready to present first ideas to Wilmington City Council | Free Press Newspapers

Title: Residents to city officials: Take the dam out

URL: http://freepressnewspapers.com/sites/default/files/fpcb_102120_b_comm_01_c.pdf

Description: October 21, 2020 Free Press; main article on removal of Wilmington dam

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Subject: Wilmington Dam

Publisher: Free Press Newspapers

Language: English

Format: pdf

Type: newspaper

Date: 01/07/2022

Rights: copyright resides with Free Press newspapers

Editor article author: Marney Simon

Title: Wilmington Dam and Mill Races

URL: http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2016/06/wilmington-dam-and-mill-races.html

Description: Photos of Wilmington [IL] dam, mill race

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Subject: Wilmington, IL dam

Creator: Dennis DeBruler

Publisher: Blogspot

Language: English

Format: photos, text, videos

Type: website, blog

Date: 01/07/2022

description: Wilmington Dam and Mill Races

Rights: Personal website; copyright resides with owner, Dennis DeBruler

title: Industrial History: Wilmington Dam and Mill Races

Title: Woman dies after she and girl, 6, become trapped near Wilmington dam

URL: https://abc7chicago.com/woman-dies-raft-death-drowning-kankakee-river-rafting-wilmington/2260495/

Description: death on Kankakee River at Wilmington dam

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Subject: Wilmington, IL dam

Creator: ABC 7

Publisher: ABC 7 News Chicago

Language: English

Type: news article; video clip, text

Date: 01/07/2022

description: A 35-year-old woman from Normal, Ill., died Saturday after she fell from an inflatable watercraft into the Kankakee River in southwest suburban Wilmington, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources said.

Rights: Sun-Times Media Wire; ABC 7 News Chicago

title: Woman dies after she and girl, 6, trapped near Wilmington dam on Kankakee River - ABC7 Chicago

URL: https://landmarkhunter.com/207121-kankakee-river-dam-wilmington-il/

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description: Dam across Kankakee River @ Wilmington, IL

title: LandmarkHunter.com | Kankakee River Dam @ Wilmington, IL

URL: https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/wilmington-disbelief-after-another-kankakee-river-drowning-dam

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description: Wilmington In Disbelief After Another Drowning At Dam - Joliet, IL - Even though billboards warn people to stay away from the Kankakee River near Wilmington's Dam, a woman died here Saturday.

title: Wilmington In Disbelief After Another Drowning At Dam | Joliet, IL Patch

URL: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-wilmington-dam-drownings-met-20160811-story.html

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description: Despite the deaths of 18 people over decades at a dam in Wilmington, city officials still have not fixed the "drowning machine."

title: Wilmington dam called a 'drowning machine' — but a fix eludes victims' families - Chicago Tribune

URL: https://www.countryherald.com/news/wilmingtons-kankakee-river-dam-site-of-multiple-drownings-faces-a-murky-future/

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description: For years, it has been an on-again, off-again topic, sometimes flooded with more questions than answers. But what is clear — at least in more recent

title: Wilmington's Kankakee River Dam, site of multiple drownings, faces a murky future - Country Herald

URL: https://www.daily-journal.com/sports/outdoors/new-wilmington-restrictions/image_ec3db8e6-6424-11e8-8b4c-7f92a360e80d.html

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description: New Wilmington restrictions

title: New Wilmington restrictions | Outdoors | daily-journal.com

URL: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/109254/2007GovernorsConferenceOnTheIllinoisRiver_ABSTRACTBOOK.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y

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Title: 615 ILCS 110/ Kankakee River Dam Transfer Act

URL: https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=1802&ChapterID=47

Description: Brief document detailing transfer of Kankakee Dam

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Creator: Information maintained by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Publisher: Illinois State Government

Language: English

Format: online document

Type: Illinois statute

Date: 01/07/2022

description: Illinois Compiled Statutes Table of Contents

Rights: Public

title: 615 ILCS 110/ Kankakee River Dam Transfer Act.

Title: Then & Now: Wilmington Lock – Wilmington

URL: https://www.shawlocal.com/2015/07/13/then-now-wilmington-lock-wilmington/aih0de2/

Description: Background/history on Wilmington, IL locks & dams

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Subject: Wilmington, IL dam

Creator: ShawMedia

Publisher: ShawMedia

Language: English

Format: text, video

Type: newspaper article

Date: 01/07/2022

description: Then & Now: Wilmington Lock – Wilmington

Rights: Copyright with ShawMedia

title: Then & Now: Wilmington Lock – Wilmington – Shaw Local

Title: Evaluation of Public Safety at Run-of-River Dams An Illinois State Wide Program APPENDIX V – Dam Investigations

URL: https://www2.illinois.gov/dnr/WaterResources/OWRDocuments/CTEAppendixV.pdf

Description: Safety of multiple dams across Illinois

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Subject: dam safety

Creator: Illinois Department of Natural Resources

Publisher: State of Illinois

Language: English

Format: government publication

Date: 01/07/2022

Rights: public access

Wilmington sections: 5.1.3 Wilmington Dam page 26- 46

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URL: http://freepressnewspapers.com/content/city-officials-dnr-meet-over-wilmington-dam/

URL: http://freepressnewspapers.com/content/dam-committee-ready-present-first-ideas-wilmington-city-council/

Title: Residents to city officials: Take the dam out

URL: http://freepressnewspapers.com/sites/default/files/fpcb_102120_b_comm_01_c.pdf

Title: Wilmington Dam and Mill Races

URL: http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2016/06/wilmington-dam-and-mill-races.html

Title: Woman dies after she and girl, 6, become trapped near Wilmington dam

URL: https://abc7chicago.com/woman-dies-raft-death-drowning-kankakee-river-rafting-wilmington/2260495/

URL: https://landmarkhunter.com/207121-kankakee-river-dam-wilmington-il/

URL: https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/wilmington-disbelief-after-another-kankakee-river-drowning-dam

URL: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-wilmington-dam-drownings-met-20160811-story.html

URL: https://www.countryherald.com/news/wilmingtons-kankakee-river-dam-site-of-multiple-drownings-faces-a-murky-future/

URL: https://www.daily-journal.com/sports/outdoors/new-wilmington-restrictions/image_ec3db8e6-6424-11e8-8b4c-7f92a360e80d.html

URL: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/109254/2007GovernorsConferenceOnTheIllinoisRiver_ABSTRACTBOOK.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y

Title: 615 ILCS 110/ Kankakee River Dam Transfer Act

URL: https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=1802&ChapterID=47

Title: Then & Now: Wilmington Lock – Wilmington

URL: https://www.shawlocal.com/2015/07/13/then-now-wilmington-lock-wilmington/aih0de2/

Title: Evaluation of Public Safety at Run-of-River Dams An Illinois State Wide Program APPENDIX V – Dam Investigations

URL: https://www2.illinois.gov/dnr/WaterResources/OWRDocuments/CTEAppendixV.pdf

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URL: http://freepressnewspapers.com/content/city-officials-dnr-meet-over-wilmington-dam/

URL: http://freepressnewspapers.com/content/dam-committee-ready-present-first-ideas-wilmington-city-council/

Title: Residents to city officials: Take the dam out

URL: http://freepressnewspapers.com/sites/default/files/fpcb_102120_b_comm_01_c.pdf

Title: Wilmington Dam and Mill Races

URL: http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2016/06/wilmington-dam-and-mill-races.html

Title: Woman dies after she and girl, 6, become trapped near Wilmington dam

URL: https://abc7chicago.com/woman-dies-raft-death-drowning-kankakee-river-rafting-wilmington/2260495/

URL: https://landmarkhunter.com/207121-kankakee-river-dam-wilmington-il/

URL: https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/wilmington-disbelief-after-another-kankakee-river-drowning-dam

URL: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-wilmington-dam-drownings-met-20160811-story.html

URL: https://www.countryherald.com/news/wilmingtons-kankakee-river-dam-site-of-multiple-drownings-faces-a-murky-future/

URL: https://www.daily-journal.com/sports/outdoors/new-wilmington-restrictions/image_ec3db8e6-6424-11e8-8b4c-7f92a360e80d.html

URL: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/109254/2007GovernorsConferenceOnTheIllinoisRiver_ABSTRACTBOOK.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y

Title: 615 ILCS 110/ Kankakee River Dam Transfer Act

URL: https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=1802&ChapterID=47

Title: Then & Now: Wilmington Lock – Wilmington

URL: https://www.shawlocal.com/2015/07/13/then-now-wilmington-lock-wilmington/aih0de2/

Title: Evaluation of Public Safety at Run-of-River Dams An Illinois State Wide Program APPENDIX V – Dam Investigations

URL: https://www2.illinois.gov/dnr/WaterResources/OWRDocuments/CTEAppendixV.pdf

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