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The Collinsville City Hall and Fire Station are two connected buildings located at 125 Center St. in Collinsville, Illinois. The Italianate City Hall was built in 1885. It was Collinsville's first dedicated city hall; prior to its completion, government meetings were held at the mayor's house. The new city hall, along with several other public ...
There was a sense of urgency creating a sanitary district due to a booming population, the fear of waterborne illness, the quality of the drinking water supply in Lake Michigan and a contaminated river, but two previous attempts at legislation in the Illinois General Assembly had been stalled over concerns of discharging used water downstream.
Mayor Robert Stranczek made a one-line statement at about 12:35 p.m. Standing on the front steps of village hall, he said: "Right now our drinking water is 100 percent safe and the village doesn't believe there was anything wrong with it prior to this." [38] As a horde of media shouted questions, the mayor returned to his offices.
According to Hawthrone (2011), after TARP’s creation and success, the city did little to improve water quality. [3] The issue of water quality was back-seated until the Obama administration ordered an ambitious cleanup of the Chicago River in 2011, later labeled as, "a dramatic step toward improving an urban waterway treated for more than a ...
WQT programs can be used to preserve good water quality in unimpaired waters by counterbalancing new or increased pollutant discharges. In impaired waters, a WQT program can be used to improve water quality by reducing pollutant discharges in order to meet a specified water quality standard or total maximum daily load (TMDL). [44]
The Victorian cupola bell tower from the original city hall building is at the peak. [3] [4] The 4,300-lb bell was built in 1865. [7] During construction, a cornerstone of the building was left open for residents were to drop in personal or historic items that would be sealed inside. [8] The city hall was dedicated January 5 to January 7, 1899. [2]
The city hall was built in 1899 to replace the previous city hall, which the city built in 1868 and had outgrown. The city hall served the city continuously from its opening until 2011, when city government moved elsewhere due to safety issues; it also held the city's police and fire departments for a time.
The city and county jointly sponsored an architectural competition that Holabird & Roche won by unanimous vote. [12] Construction of the county building (east wing) began in 1905, and by 1907 some county offices were already beginning to move in. [12] Construction of city hall (the west wing) was delayed until 1909 because the city had to wait for the State to increase its borrowing authority ...