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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Illinois St, between 1909 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, blasting permits, sewers.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Illinois St, between 1909 and 2025
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.44
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.8
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.5
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.5
Buildings the city rentsSpace the city leases from private owners, with the rent on the record.5
Environmental reviewNothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.4

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 2020s6
    Proposal for the YMCA to lease Building 49 at Crane Cove Park on Illinois Street (outcome not in the record) · 2023
  2. 2000s18
    $12.3M in extra money passed for the city's two hospitals · 2004
  3. 1990s2
    Proposed: $3.1M in state funds for health care for the poor · 1999
  4. 1980s1
    Old Western Pacific rail strip on Army Street found environmentally harmless · 1988
  5. 1970s5
    $9,203 for railroad signals at Marin and Illinois finally passed · 1971
  6. 1960s3
    Proposal to spend $250,895 to rebuild Illinois Street between El Dorado and 23rd Street (outcome not in the record) · 1969
  7. 1950s4
    Proposed, approved later: City to take over Army Street between Michigan and Illinois Streets · 1954
  8. 1940s5
    Widening map approved for Sixteenth Street between Seventh and Illinois · 1942
  9. 1930s5
    Sidewalks set at twelve feet on Eighteenth Street near Illinois Street · 1934
  10. 1920s33
    Proposal to build an Alemany Boulevard storm drain west of Bayshore Boulevard (outcome not in the record) · 1929
  11. 1910s35
    Proposed: Municipal Railway extension to Twentieth and Illinois · 1918
  12. 1900s3
    Proposed: three pumps and boilers for Associated Oil at Sixteenth and Illinois · 1909

The most notable decisions

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The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. Every line is written from one item in the minutes of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the city council, and links to the page it was printed on at the Internet Archive or in the Clerk's own files. Many of the Board's decisions name no street at all, and only the ones that do can be placed here. How the record was read · The whole city

See also

Streets near it on the record

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Overview

The city, drawn from its own recordEvery block, and what the Board of Supervisors decided there