Email Record: Illinois River, Ill. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, dated August 23, 1941, submitting a report, together with accompanying papers and illustrations, on a review of reports on the Illinois River, Ill., with a view to the use of levee districts as reservoirs for the protection and improvement of navigation and flood control in the several drainage districts between Grafton and Starved Rock, Ill., requested by a resolution of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, House of Representatives, adopted on February 5, 1937.