Illinois St
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.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks44Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Blasting permits8Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Sewers5Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Parking5Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Buildings the city rents5Space the city leases from private owners, with the rent on the record.
- PG&E and the utilities3The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s6YMCA leases Building 49 at Crane Cove Park on Illinois Street · 2023
- 2000s18$12.3M in extra money passed for the city's two hospitals · 2004
- 1990s2$3.1M in state funds voted for health care for the poor · 1999
- 1980s1Old Western Pacific rail strip on Army Street found environmentally harmless · 1988
- 1970s5$9,203 for railroad signals at Marin and Illinois finally passed · 1971
- 1960s3$250,895 rebuilt Illinois Street between El Dorado and 23rd Street. · 1969
- 1950s4City takes over Army Street between Michigan and Illinois Streets · 1954
- 1940s5Widening map approved for Sixteenth Street between Seventh and Illinois · 1942
- 1930s5Sidewalks set at twelve feet on Eighteenth Street near Illinois Street · 1934
- 1920s33Alemany Boulevard storm drain ordered built west of Bayshore Boulevard · 1929
- 1910s35Municipal Railway extension to Twentieth and Illinois referred to committee · 1918
- 1900s3Associated Oil allowed three pumps and boilers at Sixteenth and Illinois · 1909
The most notable decisions
$12.3M in extra money passed for the city's two hospitals
Ordinance · 13 July 2004 ↗$3.1M in state funds voted for health care for the poor
Ordinance · 25 October 1999 ↗$10M passed for the Illinois Street Bridge over Islais Creek
Ordinance · 13 July 2004 ↗YMCA leases Building 49 at Crane Cove Park on Illinois Street
Resolution · 27 June 2023 ↗New zoning proposed across the four Eastern Neighborhoods plan areas
Ordinance · proposed · 9 December 2008 ↗Port takes $4.2M in grants for the Illinois Street bridge
Resolution · 13 December 2005 ↗YMCA's Crane Cove Park lease eased, restrooms to open by July
Resolution · 27 February 2024 ↗Port takes $500,000 for the Illinois Street bridge over Islais Creek
Resolution · 7 May 2001 ↗City takes over Army Street between Michigan and Illinois Streets
Ordinance · 2 August 1954 ↗City takes over the new roadway on Army Street
Resolution · 2 August 1954 ↗
Where this comes from
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