Illinois ACORN Records, 1983-2006
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Container Title
M2001-111
Part 1 (M2001-111): Original Collection, 1983-1994
Physical Description: 7.0 c.f. (7 record center cartons) and 2 videorecordings 
Scope and Content Note: Records include training notes and manuals, board and staff agendas and minutes, financial records, grant proposals, clippings, community organization meeting files, and materials concerning local actions and campaigns on such issues as abandoned housing, schools, utility rates, and energy assistance, and jobs. Also included are photographs of events and rallies, and videos, including two training videos on voter registration and organizing.
Box   1
Folder   1
Background materials, 1987-1988
Administrative records
Board meetings, minutes, notes, and reports
Box   1
Folder   2-8
Chicago
Box   1
Folder   9
Illinois, 1983-1984
Box   1
Folder   10
Great Lakes Region staff meetings, 1983-1993
Madeline Talbott notebooks
Box   1
Folder   11-32
1983-1987
Box   2
Folder   1-23
1987, 1989-1992
Box   2
Folder   24-31
Madeline Talbott appointment books, 1987-1991
Box   2
Folder   32
Committees
Box   2
Folder   33
Reports
Box   2
Folder   34
Notes, 1992 April-July
Box   2
Folder   35
National publications advertising
Box   2
Folder   36
Recruitment
Box   2
Folder   37
Forms and maps
Box   2
Folder   38-44
Leadership training, 1985-1991
Box   2
Folder   45
Combined Federal Campaign
Box   2
Folder   46
Training Center
Box   2
Folder   47
Organizer training materials
Box   2
Folder   48
Internal evaluations
Box   2
Folder   49
Associate reports
Box   2
Folder   50
Work plan, 1984
Box   2
Folder   51
Weekend petitioning report
Box   2
Folder   52
Better Business Bureau
Box   2
Folder   53
Caravan, 1988
Box   2
Folder   54
Canvass lawsuits
Box   2
Folder   55
Voter registration
Box   2
Folder   56
New Party Chicago contacts
Box   2
Folder   57
Correspondence, M. Fred Friedman
Box   2
Folder   58
Self-sufficiency campaign
Box   2
Folder   59
ACORN insurance, 1986
Box   2
Folder   60
ACORN Services state registration, 1985
Box   2
Folder   61
State bylaws
Year end/year beginning reports, 1985-1994
Box   2
Folder   62
Chicago
Box   2
Folder   63
Illinois
Box   2
Folder   64
Public service announcements
Box   2
Folder   65
Staff meetings
Box   2
Folder   66
Convention attendance
Box   2
Folder   67
Video project
Box   2
Folder   68
Cutbacks, state
Box   2
Folder   69
Taxes
Box   2
Folder   70
Mike Shea memo
Box   2
Folder   71
Court information, arrest
Box   2
Folder   72
Memoranda, 1985-1992
Box   3
Folder   1-3
Kickoff, 1991-1993
Box   3
Folder   4
ACORN fund, 1990-1991
Box   3
Folder   5
Christmas party, 1990, 1992
Box   3
Folder   6
Time sheets, 1991 March
Box   3
Folder   7
Handbook
Box   3
Folder   8
Women Leaders in Action
Box   3
Folder   9
Police harassment
Box   3
Folder   10
Hightower campaign and rally
Box   3
Folder   11
Ernestine Whiting biography
Box   3
Folder   12
Staff performance memos, 1993
Box   3
Folder   13
Legislative Conference, 1993
Financial
Box   3
Folder   14
Matt Hamada reimbursements
Box   3
Folder   15
ACORN Services, Inc. (ASI) Illinois
Box   3
Folder   16-20
Finances, 1983-1987
Box   3
Folder   21
Budgets, 1984-1988, undated
Box   3
Folder   22
Dues, 1983
Box   3
Folder   23
Letter to funders
Box   3
Folder   24-25
Fundraising and petitioning
Box   3
Folder   26
ACORN-Illinois newsletter
Chris Brown files
Box   3
Folder   27
Chicago Housing Corporation
Box   3
Folder   28
Local 880
Box   3
Folder   29
Chicago ASI
Box   3
Folder   30
ACORN Housing Corporation of Illinois, administrative and development funds
Box   3
Folder   31
Project Hometown of CHD GLIEIP, ACORN Institute for Social Justice
Box   3
Folder   32
Chicago ACORN
Box   3
Folder   33
Woods Gund and ARC, CHOP, CAHP and Association subsidy
Box   3
Folder   34
Financial information
Box   3
Folder   35-39
Notepads, 1989
Box   3
Folder   40-55
Grant proposals and grants, 1983-1986
Box   3
Folder   56
Miscellaneous
Box   3
Folder   57-82
Neighborhood community organizations
Political activities
Box   3
Folder   83
Presentation, ACORN/Anti-Reagan campaign
Box   3
Folder   84-86
ACORN Political Action Committee
Box   3
Folder   87
Alliance for Justice
Box   3
Folder   88
Dallas tent city, 1984
Abandoned buildings, homesteading, housing, rehabilitation, and neighborhoods
Box   3
Folder   89
Bylaws, lease, articles: ACORN Community Land Association, ACORN Housing Corporation, ACORN Management Corporation
Box   4
Folder   1-8
ACORN Housing Corporation of Illinois
Box   4
Folder   9
ACORN tenants union
Box   4
Folder   10
Housing information, general and miscellaneous
Box   4
Folder   11
“What I Think About the Land Association Lease” (member statements)
Box   4
Folder   12-17
Housing Rights Organization
Box   4
Folder   18
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation houses
Box   4
Folder   19
Homesteading
Box   4
Folder   20-25
Rehabilitation Network
Box   4
Folder   26
Neighborhood Housing Services housing information
Box   4
Folder   27
Chicago Reinvestment Alliance
Box   4
Folder   28
Housing legislation
Box   4
Folder   29
Local Initiative Support Corporation
Box   4
Folder   30-31
Affordable housing forum
Box   4
Folder   32
ACORN 20th Century convention/squatting mailing
Box   4
Folder   33-35
Housing and Urban Development campaign
Box   4
Folder   36
Chicago Department of Housing
Box   4
Folder   37
Letters of support (Egan)
Box   4
Folder   38
Citywide tag day
Box   4
Folder   39
Statewide housing coalition
Box   4
Folder   40
Metropolitan Tenants Organization, tenants' bill of rights
Box   4
Folder   41
Citicorp
Box   4
Folder   42-78
Abandoned buildings
Box   5
Folder   1-22
The Mayor's Chicago Abandoned Property Program
Box   5
Folder   23-24
Illinois Housing Preservation Study
Box   5
Folder   25-38
Prepayment
Box   5
Folder   39
Rehab team meetings
Box   5
Folder   40
Action meeting agendas
Box   5
Folder   41
Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy
Box   5
Folder   42
Media Consultant
Box   5
Folder   43-53
Bank and Savings & Loan campaigns
Box   6
Bank and Savings & Loan campaigns (continued)
Box   7
Folder   1-20
Utilities
Box   7
Folder   21-23
Jobs campaigns
Box   7
Folder   24-36
School campaigns
Other issues
Box   7
Folder   37-40
Chicago Transit Authority
Box   7
Folder   41
Voter registration
Box   7
Folder   42
Homecare Co-op
Box   7
Folder   43
Mayor Daley
Box   7
Folder   44
Lead paint poisoning, 1992-1993
Box   7
Folder   45
Health care
Box   7
Folder   46
Free legal services
Box   7
Folder   47
Chicago Initiative proposal
Box   7
Folder   48
Community policing
Box   7
Folder   49
Welfare cuts
Box   7
Folder   50
Gangs
Box   7
Folder   51
Presidential poll
Box   7
Folder   52
Foot patrols
Box   7
Folder   53
Hazardous materials, PCBs
Box   7
Folder   54
Illinois Committee for Honest Elections
Box   7
Folder   55
Drugs
Box   7
Folder   56
Sexual assault
Box   7
Folder   57
Jewel/Osco-80th and Ashland, liquor sales
Box   7
Folder   58
Republican Convention, 1988
Box   7
Folder   59
Com Ed Campaign, 1988
Box   7
Folder   60
Women's Caucus
Box   7
Folder   61
ACORN-Illinois newsletters
Box   7
Folder   62
Press clippings, 1983-1993, undated
Box   7
Folder   63
Press releases, 1985-1991
Project Vote
Box   7
Folder   64
Organizer packet
Box   7
Folder   65
Forms, job description, 1996
Box   7
Folder   66
Funding requests, 1996
Box   7
Folder   67
Evanston NAACP participation, 1996
Box   7
Folder   68
Background materials
Box   7
Folder   69
Other
Videorecordings
Physical Description: 2 videotapes 
Video   1
“What's Your Last Name” [voter registration training], 1996
Physical Description: 18:00 minutes 
Video   2
“Let It Shine - How Do I Recruit Them” [organizer training], 1996
Physical Description: 33:01 minutes