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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[December 16

city of Chicago would be willing to defray any extraordinary costs which would arise out of selection of a site within the city of Chicago, the University has worked in full cooperation with the City to proceed with its planning. Subsequently, the Trustees were advised that Northerly Island, one of the four, could not be made available. While on other occasions the University and the Trustees have acted favorably toward both the Riverside and Garfield P a r k locations, the Board has always expressed a willingness to consider the Rail Terminal site, should it meet time availability, and cost requirements. However, since no negotiable proposals from either the Rail Terminal Authority or the city of Chicago have been received in regard to the Rail Terminal site, its availability to meet the University's time schedule, or as to its cost, the University has proceeded with its planning for use of the Garfield Park site. Based on the information which is presently available, the Garfield Park site appears to be the only site on which construction can be completed by the fall of 1963 for occupancy of a new campus and the transfer of the program now being offered at Navy Pier. Even on this site prompt action will be required by the city of Chicago and the Chicago P a r k District if this time schedule is to be realized. When the University and the Trustees receive specific information from the city of Chicago or the Rail Terminal Authority concerning the availability and the cost of the Rail Terminal site, such information will be given careful and prompt consideration.

On motion of Mr. Harewood, this report was approved.

REPRESENTATIVES OF MIDWEST COMMUNITY C O U N C I L OF CHICAGO

Mr. F. Adrian Robson, Executive Director of the Midwest Community Council, and two other Council representatives, the Reverend Shelvin J. Hall, President of the Council and Pastor of the Friendship Baptist Church, and the Reverend J. Burton Mark, Assistant to the President of Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Chicago, appeared before the Board and spoke briefly in support of the selection of Garfield Park as a site for the relocation of the Chicago Undergraduate Division.

A TELEGRAM SENT TO GOVERNOR WILLIAM G. STRATTON

A telegram sent to Governor William G. Stratton by Mr. Edward J. Rosewell, representing thirty-nine organizations in Chicago and supporting the Governor's endorsement of Garfield Park site, was read and a copy was filed with the Secretary of the Board.

RECOMMENDATION OF COMMISSION TO VISIT AND EXAMINE STATE INSTITUTIONS (18) The Subcommittee on Educational Institutions of the Legislative Commission to Visit and Examine State Institutions has made its annual visits to the University at Urbana-Champaign on November 2, and at the Chicago Professional Colleges and the Chicago Undergraduate Division on December 8 and 9, 1959Following its visit to the Chicago Undergraduate Division, the Commission adopted the following recommendation which is submitted for record, Due to the conditions at Navy Pier, we strongly recommend that the Mayor of Chicago, the Chicago Park District, and the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois take immediate action in the final decision of a site for the Chicago Undergraduate Division of the University of Illinois. T h e Committee, on our visit to Navy Pier, feel that a state of acute emergency exists and that definite action must be forthcoming now. On the Committee visit they found that the physical buildings are not water proof and are entirely inadequate. As many as twenty-five professors are compelled to share offices in small rooms with no separating partitions. It was pointed out to the Committee that the time element is of great importance and because of the anticipated increase in enrollment, a building site must