| | 1: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2000 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | As a result of increased pollutant loading and low in-stream velocities, dissolved oxygen (DO) levels in the Chicago waterways historically have been low. In 1984, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRDGC) issued a feasibility report on a new concept of artificial aeration referred to as sidestream elevated pool aeration (SEPA). The SEPA station concept involves pumping a portion of water from a stream into an elevated pool. The water is then aerated by flowing over a series of cascades or waterfalls, returning to the stream. The MWRDGC proceeded with design criteria for SEPA stations as a result of experimental work performed by the Illinois State Water Survey (ISWS). Five SEPA stations were constructed and placed in operation along the Calumet River, Little Calumet River, and the Cal-Sag Channel waterway. In 1995 the ISWS returned to conduct research to evaluate the reaeration efficiencies and their effects on in-stream DO. Continuous monitoring of DO, temperature, pH, and conductivity was performed at 14 locations along the Calumet and Little Calumet Rivers, Cal-Sag Channel, and Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal to evaluate the effectiveness of the SEPA stations on maintaining in-stream DO concentrations. Also, supplemental cross-sectional measurements were made at the 14 locations and at an additional seven locations. Comparisons of mass balance, completely mixed, in-stream mean DO concentrations at the SEPA station outfalls and those measured at cross-sectional stations immediately downstream of each SEPA station were made. Results showed that each SEPA station has an immediate positive impact on in-stream DO concentrations. At SEPA stations 1 and 2, where the impacts are small, the positive effects can best be demonstrated using completely mixed values. Two important conclusions can be made. One is that the SEPA stations, particularly stations 3, 4, and 5, are fulfilling the intended function of maintaining stream DO standards in the Calumet and Little Calumet Rivers and the Cal-Sag Channel. The second is that DO concentrations less than the DO standard are still observed in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal in the reach beginning above its juncture with the Cal-Sag Channel to the Lockport Lock and Dam. Over the entire study period, DO concentrations were maintained above the standard 98.6 percent of the time from the SEPA station 3 outfall to the intake of SEPA station 4 and 97.5 percent of the time from the outfall of SEPA station 4 to the intake of EPA station 5. Significant improvements in DO concentrations were also achieved for at least 4 miles downstream of SEPA station 5 in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. | | | | Date Created: | 9 24 2004 | | | | Agency ID: | CR-2000-02 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000000802 Original UID: 999999994078 FIRST WORD: Sidestream | |
| 2: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2002 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Soil erosion and nonpoint source pollution runoff rates are estimated using output from the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE). The underlying influence of climate on surface transport processes as represented in the RUSLE is carried within one constant, the R-factor. It has been assumed that the R-factor is temporally stationary; that is, it does not change with time. The purpose of this study was to process climate information from the most recent decades to update the R-factor, to examine the nature of precipitation variation and change and their impacts on the R-factor over space and time, and, specifically, to test the hypothesis that storm erosivity and the R-factor are temporally stationary. This was addressed by developing a database of precipitation data and related information needed to calculate single-storm erosivity and cumulative R-factor for each half-month of the year and for the total year. In addition the 10-year, single-storm erosive index for each station is provided. The R-factor, a nonlinear, cumulative measure of the erosive energy contained in storm precipitation, was calculated directly from 15-minute rainfall data. However, because of some undocumented quality difficulties with the 15-minute data, single-storm erosivity index statistics for accumulation into R-factors were calculated from more reliable daily data through the use of a power law transfer function. These new R-factors were tested for spatial covariation, which was found to be minimal in even terrain, and related to the limited amount of station R-factor data from past studies. Comparison with past R-factor studies indicated strongly that the methodologies used adequately duplicated old R-factors based on data from the 1930s to the 1950s. General increases observed in R-factors in this study were related to increasing amounts of precipitation and storms with rainfall greater than 12.7 millimeters, especially in the western United States. Mean seasonal patterns of storm precipitation total, duration, intensity, 30-minute and 15-minute maximum intensity, kinetic energy, erosivity, and the numbers of storms also were mapped for the conterminous United States. These analyses showed distinct patterns of precipitation change with seasons and identified regions of strong gradients where climate change first may be noticed. Trend analyses of storm precipitation variables over the 1971-1999 period indicated the lack of temporal stationarity of storm characteristics. Storm duration changes were especially an important cause of the observed changes in storm precipitation totals. However, storm trends in 30-minute maximum intensity seemed to be more important in changing the patterns of storm erosivity. Examination of storm characteristic response to interannual and interdecadal variations also indicated that storm characteristics were responding at these time scales to large-scale climate system forcings. In the winter season, atmospheric teleconnections such as the Pacific/North American Pattern and the North Atlantic Oscillation were shown to influence not only storm track positions and the number of storms at a location, but also the characteristics of individual storms. El Nio and La Nia events of the Southern Oscillation (ENSO events) had distinctive impacts on storm variables in every season of the year. Even the Pacific Decadal Oscillation showed a clear effect on storm characteristics, especially in the western United States. The results of R-factors derived from modern data compared to previous R-factors combined with storm characteristic trend and variability studies indicate conclusively that storm precipitation characteristics change sufficiently over time to warrant an evaluation of the necessity to recalculate R-factors on a regular basis. | | | | Date Created: | 9 24 2004 | | | | Agency ID: | CR-2002-08 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000000878 Original UID: 999999994349 FIRST WORD: Spatial | |
| 3: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Simich v. Edgewater Beach Apartments Corp. 1-05-2098 Fourth Division, Irene E. Simich Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Edgewater Beach Apartments Corporation, an Illinois Corporation Sudler and Company, and Kenneth Ortiz, Defendants-Appellees. | | | | Date Created: | 11 01 2006 | | | | Agency ID: | 1-05-2098 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000001790 Original UID: 1739 FIRST WORD: Simich | |
| 4: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Searles v. The Board of Education of the City of Chicago THIRD DIVISION December 20, 2006 No. 1-05-3471 QUEEN A. TIYE SEARLES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO, ARNE DUNCAN, as Chief Executive Officer of the Board, RUTH MOSCOVITCH, Individually and as General Counsel of the Board, SUNIL KUMAR, Individually and in his official capacity as Assistant General Counsel, JOHN FRANZ, Individually and as Chief Labor Relations Officer of the Board, ASCENCION JUAREZ, as Chief Human Resources Officer of the Board, WENDY HAAS, Individually and as Director of the Department of Human Resources, Bureau of Employee Health Services of the Board, GWENDOLYN BOYD, Individually and as the Principal of John Marshall Metropolitan High School, and THOMAS LAMBERT, Individually, Defendants-Appellees. Defendants-Appellees. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County. No. 04CH21856 The Honorable Anthony L. Young, Judge Presiding. | | | | Date Created: | 12 29 2006 | | | | Agency ID: | 1-05-3471 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000001891 Original UID: 1943 FIRST WORD: Searles | |
| 5: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Scheider v. Ackerman No. 2--06--0447 filed: 12/26/06 THE APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS SECOND DISTRICT BARBARA SCHEIDER, Petitioner-Appellee, v. THOMAS L. ACKERMAN, Respondent-Appellant. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Stephenson County. No. 06--OP--9 Honorable Theresa L. Ursin, Judge, Presiding. | | | | Date Created: | 12 29 2006 | | | | Agency ID: | 2-06-0447 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000001899 Original UID: 1940 FIRST WORD: Scheider | |
| 6: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Shaheen v. Advantage Moving and Storage, Inc. SIXTH DIVISION December 1, 2006 No. 1-04-1079 MATTHEW SHAHEEN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ADVANTAGE MOVING AND STORAGE, INC., and WILLIAM T. URBAN, Defendants-Appellants. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County Honorable Martin S. Agran, Judge Presiding. | | | | Date Created: | 12 06 2006 | | | | Agency ID: | 1-04-1079 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000001927 Original UID: 1867 FIRST WORD: Shaheen | |
| 7: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Seith v. Chicago Sun-Times, Inc. SIXTH DIVISION January 12, 2007 No. 1-03-1307 ALEX R. SEITH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, INC., and STEVE NEAL, Defendants-Appellees. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County. No. 02 L 5830 Honorable Michael J. Hogan, Judge Presiding. | | | | Date Created: | 01 17 2007 | | | | Agency ID: | 1-03-1307 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000002054 Original UID: 1995 FIRST WORD: Seith | |
| 8: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Selective Insurance Company v. Urbina SECOND DIVISION January 16, 2007 No. 1-06-0298 SELECTIVE INSURANCE COMPANY a/s/o C R Leonard Plumbing and Heating, and ROBERT C. CAMBRUZZI, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. JORGE A. URBINA and ANTONIO URBINA, Defendants-Appellees (Universal Casualty Company, Third-Party Respondent-Appellee). Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County. Honorable Raymond Funderburk, Judge Presiding. | | | | Date Created: | 02 09 2007 | | | | Agency ID: | 1-06-0298 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000002095 Original UID: 2039 FIRST WORD: Selective | |
| 9: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | FOURTH DIVISION FILED: February 28, 2007 No. 1-05-3213 DARRELL E. SHOOP, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DAIMLERCHRYSLER CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee. (Dempsey Dodge, Defendant.) Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois No. 03 M1 154118 Honorable Vanessa A. Hopkins, Judge Presiding | | | | Date Created: | 03 06 2007 | | | | Agency ID: | 1-05-3213 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000002302 Original UID: 2220 FIRST WORD: Shoop | |
| 10: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | FOURTH DIVISION March 8, 2007 No. 1-05-3849 SERENE SHAPER and LIONEL BRAZEN, Plaintiffs-Appellants, JOHN H. BRYAN, STEPHEN B. BURKE, JAMES S. CROWN, JAMES DIMON, DR. MAUREEN A. FAY, O.P., JOHN R. HALL, LABAN P. JACKSON, JR., JOHN W. KESSLER, ROBERT I. LIPP, RICHARD A. MANOOGIAN, DAVID C. NOVAK, JOHN W. ROGERS, JR. and FREDERICK R. STRATTON, JR., Defendants-Appellees, (Bank One Corporation, Nominal Defendant). Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County. Honorable Mary Anne Mason, Judge Presiding. | | | | Date Created: | 03 12 2007 | | | | Agency ID: | 1-05-3849 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000002324 Original UID: 2236 FIRST WORD: Shaper | |
| 11: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | SIXTH DIVISION March 23, 2007 No. 1-05-1332 MARY SPENCER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. THE RYLAND GROUP, INC., d/b/a Ryland Homes, Defendant-Appellee. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. No. 04 CH 08975 Honorable Patrick McGann Judge Presiding. | | | | Date Created: | 03 29 2007 | | | | Agency ID: | 1-05-1332 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000002343 Original UID: 2281 FIRST WORD: Spencer | |
| 12: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | FOURTH DIVISION MARCH 15, 2007 No. 1-05-1950 VICTOR SANTANA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS, its members JOHN R. KEITH, JESSE SMART, WANDA L. REDNOUR, ELAINE ROUPAS, WILLIAM M. McGUFFAGE, DAVID E. MURRAY, ALBERT PORTER, BRYAN A. SCHNEIDER, and its Executive Director, DANIEL WHITE, and SCOTT SAEWERT, Respondents-Appellees. On Review from an Order of the Illinois State Board of Elections. No. 04 CD 038 | | | | Date Created: | 03 21 2007 | | | | Agency ID: | 1-05-1950 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000002367 Original UID: 2254 FIRST WORD: Santana | |
| 13: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | FOURTH DIVISION March 29, 2007 1-06-0878 EDWARD SANCHEZ, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC., Defendant-Appellee. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County. Honorable Anthony L. Young, Judge Presiding. | | | | Date Created: | 03 29 2007 | | | | Agency ID: | 1-06-0878 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000002436 Original UID: 2341 FIRST WORD: Sanchez | |
| 14: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | SIXTH DIVISION March 30, 2007 No. 1-05-0157 FARID SWEILEM and KHALIL SWEILEM, Petitioners-Appellants, v. ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE BOARD OF APPEALS; and DIRECTOR of THE ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, Respondents-Appellees. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County. Nos. 01 L 51089 and 01 L 51090 The Honorable Alexander P. White, Judge Presiding. | | | | Date Created: | 03 30 2007 | | | | Agency ID: | 1-05-0157 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000002460 Original UID: 2365 FIRST WORD: Sweilem | |
| 15: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2007 April | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | A facility's lighting and water usage are often overlooked by plant managers and facility engineers. They search for more obvious conservation opportunities in heating, air conditioning, compressed air, boilers, etc. Lights are overhead and taken for granted. Water is usually hidden inside equipment, fixtures, plumbing and walls or floors. Both of these resources often go unnoticed. This case study tells how the Waste Management and Research Center (WMRC) worked with Highland Machine to assess potential savings in common commodities such as lights and water. Armed with this knowledge, perhaps other companies and the general public can spawn change in the way they operate. | | | | Date Created: | 04 20 2007 | | | | Agency ID: | TN07-088 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000002524 Original UID: 2431 FIRST WORD: Shedding | |
| 16: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | NO. 4-06-0340 Filed 5/2/07 IN THE APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS FOURTH DISTRICT JASON A. SHANK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. H.C. FIELDS, Defendant, and CHAMPAIGN ASPHALT COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee. Appeal from Circuit Court of Champaign County No. 02L20 Honorable Michael Q. Jones, Judge Presiding. | | | | Date Created: | 05 02 2007 | | | | Agency ID: | 4-06-0340 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000002754 Original UID: 2661 FIRST WORD: Shank | |
| 17: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | No. 3-06-0365 Filed May 4, 2007. IN THE APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS THIRD DISTRICT A.D., 2007 TERRY L. SIEKIERKA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STEEL DECK, INC., Defendant-Appellee. Appeal from the Circuit Court for the 13th Judicial Circuit, LaSalle County, Illinois No. 02-L-182 Honorable Eugene P. Daugherity Judge, Presiding | | | | Date Created: | 05 04 2007 | | | | Agency ID: | 3-06-0365 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000002855 Original UID: 2752 FIRST WORD: Siekierka | |
| 18: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | NO. 5-06-0257 IN THE APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS FIFTH DISTRICT ROGER SATHOFF, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WAYNE SUTTERER, Executor of the Estate of Melba Busse, Deceased, and Unknown Owners, Defendants-Appellees. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Monroe County. No. 05-CH-22 Honorable Dennis B. Doyle, Judge, presiding. | | | | Date Created: | 05 08 2007 | | | | Agency ID: | 5-06-0257 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000002893 Original UID: 2788 FIRST WORD: Sathoff | |
| 19: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | SECOND DIVISION FILED: May 22, 2007 No. 1-06-1221 STEADFAST INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CAREMARK RX, INC., and CAREMARK, INC., Defendants-Appellees. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County. No. 03 L 001363 HONORABLE MARY ANN MASON, JUDGE PRESIDING. | | | | Date Created: | 05 22 2007 | | | | Agency ID: | 1-06-1221 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003055 Original UID: 2912 FIRST WORD: Steadfast | |
| 20: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | 1-05-0883 FIRST DIVISION Filed: 5-29-07 SBC HOLDINGS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant and Cross-Appellee, v. TRAVELERS CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee and Cross-Appellant. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County. No. 03 CH 4009 Honorable Nancy J. Arnold, Judge Presiding. | | | | Date Created: | 05 29 2007 | | | | Agency ID: | 1-05-0883 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003087 Original UID: 2932 FIRST WORD: SBC | |
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