LibGuides: Illinois Waters Bibliography: Illinois River

Select studies of the Illinois River, in chronological order

Report ... made to the General Assembly on the third January, 1825, accompanied by a map of the proposed canal; together with the law incorporating a company to open a canal to connect the waters of Lake Michigan with those of the Illinois River
by Canal Commissioners
Publication Date: 1825
Travels in the central portions of the Mississippi valley: comprising observations on its mineral geography, internal resources, and aboriginal population
by Henry R. Schoolcraft
Publication Date: 1825
Chapter XIV includes an account of the Illinois River.
Memorial of the General Assembly of the state of Illinois on the construction of a canal, to unite the waters of Lake Michigan with the Illinois River, February 23, 1826
by David Blackwell and Raphael Widen
Publication Date: February 23, 1826
Printed by order of the Senate of the United States, 19th Congress, 1st Session.
French and Indians of Illinois river, 2nd edition
by Nehemiah Matson
Publication Date: 1874
2nd edition.
On the Entomology of the Illinois River and Adjacent Waters
Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History IV, article 6
by Charles A. Hart
Publication Date: December 1895
A List of the Protozoa and Rotifera Found in the Illinois River and Adjacent Lakes at Havana, Ill.
Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History V no. 6
by Adolph Hempel
Publication Date: December 1898
Advance notes of the sanitary investigations of the Illinois river and its tributaries, with special reference to the effect of the sewage of Chicago on the DesPlaines and Illinois rivers prior to the opening of the Chicago Drainage Canal
by Illinois State Board of Health
Publication Date: 1900
With special reference to the effect of sewage of Chicago on the Des Plaines and Illinois Rivers prior to and after the opening of the Chicago Drainage Canal.

Report on the lower Illinois river basin and contiguous area draining directly into the Mississippi river
by Illinois State Planning Commission
Publication Date: 1939
Report on the upper Illinois river basin in Illinois
by Illinois State Planning Commission
Publication Date: 1939
Revised edition of the report prepared for the National water resources survey of the National resources committee, 1936-1937

Butts, T. A., Evans, R. L., & Lin, S. (1975). Water quality features of the upper Illinois waterway. Illinois State Water Survey Report of Investigation no. 79

Critical Trends Assessment Program (CTAP)

Illinois River Bluffs Area Assessment
Publication Date: 1998
Illinois River Bluffs Area Assessment
Publication Date: 2001
Big Rivers Area Assessment
Publication Date: 1998

Governor's Conference on Management of the Illinois River

Data

Long Term Resource Monitoring Program
Data on fish populations, water quality, and a range of other parameters from 1988 to date are available from multiple sites on the Illinois River, contributed by Illinois Natural History Survey field stations in Brighton, IL (Great Rivers Biological Station) and Havana, IL, (Illinois River Biological Station). View sampling location information for LTRMP
Illinois River Decision Support System Water Quality Database
Search for water quality data by characteristic or location. Produced by the Illinois State Water Survey. Data are available primarily for the Upper Illinois River.