Illinois Genealogy – Free Illinois Genealogy

Illinois Genealogy. This state page of our website provides direct links to free Illinois genealogy databases and historical titles and information found on Illinois Genealogy, whether they exist on our site, or across the web.

African American Specific Illinois Genealogy

• Illinois African American Genealogy
• Database of Servitude and Emancipation Records (1722–1863)

Illinois Biographies

• Biographies of Champaign County, Illinois
• Biographical Sketches, Coles County, Illinois
• Macoupin County Illinois Biographies
• Biographies of Rock Island County, Illinois
• Historical and Biographical Record of Douglas County, Illinois

Illinois Cemetery Records

• Illinois Cemetery Records
  • Barnes Cemetery, DeWitt, DeWitt County, Illinois
  • Frieden’s Lutheran Church Cemetery, Rock Island County, Illinois

Illinois Census Records

• Illinois Census Records
• 1818 Illinois State Census
• Illinois 1910 Census Edition Map

Illinois Church Records

• Illinois, Diocese of Belleville, Catholic Parish Records, 1695-1956
  A help guide for accessing the images of parish registers recording the events of baptism, first communion, confirmation (to 1907), marriage (to 1930) or death (to 1956) in the Diocese of Belleville (Illinois), Roman Catholic Church. The index to some volumes may reference pages within a given volume beyond current publication dates. As such, these images are not currently available. In addition to traditional parish registers, this collection includes a small number of census, church history, family and financial records. To assist the researcher I have broken down the available registers by county and name of parish, including the years covered by those parish records.
• Illinois Methodist Church Records
  The following collection of material reflects 250 churches of the Methodist faith which have closed their doors since 1824 in southern and central Illinois. This region makes up the Illinois Great Rivers United Methodist Conference. While the vast majority of the information relates to membership rolls and registers of officials, many of the churches also kept vital records of their members. Ancestry claims that “Baptism records are available until 1914, and Marriage records are available until 1970.” In fact I found baptism records which occurred after 1914, however, they’re not indexed. They appear in the records on the images only.

Illinois County Genealogy

Adams County Genealogy

• Adams County Almshouse Register Index (1873–1898)

Bond County Genealogy

• History of Bond and Montgomery Counties, Illinois

Brown County Genealogy

• Brown County Almshouse Registers Index (1882–1963)

Carroll County Genealogy

• Carroll County Birth Certificates Index (1877–1913)

Cass County Genealogy

• Cass County Probate Book A, July 1837 – January 1848
• Cass County, Illinois Probate Book C, 1849-1852

Champaign County Genealogy

• Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church (Champaign, Illinois) extractions:
  • Background
  • Baptisms
  • Confirmations
  • Marriages
  • Burials
• St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church (Champaign, Illinois): Church Book A: 1860-1875 extractions
  • Introduction and Background
  • Baptisms Index (1860-1875)
  • Confirmations Index (1860-1875)
  • Marriages Index (1860-1875)
  • Burials Index (1860-1875)
• St. Peters Evangelical Church (Champaign, Illinois) extractions (Pomeranians):
  • Index of Birthplaces
  • Index of Confirmations
  • Index of Marriages
  • Index of Burials
  • Early Members
  • List of Members
• Champaign Central High School Yearbooks
  The Maroon Library at Champaign Central High School has digitized 94 yearbooks of Champaign Central High School. These yearbook images they placed online for everyone to view for free. To facilitate your access we have provided links to the individual yearbooks, by year published, oldest to newest.

Coles County Genealogy

• Biographical Sketches, Coles County, Illinois

Cook County Genealogy

• Arlington Heights Genealogy
  • First Map of the Town of Dunton (Arlington Heights)
    In 1845, William Dunton, son of Asa, built the first house in the town on the 160 acres that his father had staked out for him back in 1836. William’s home stood on the open prairie, beside an old Indian trail (Arlington Heights Road), with no neighbors and no roads. In 1853, William made a deal with the Illinois and Wisconsin Railroad to build a rail line directly through his property. A year later, he laid out one-half of his farm into lots, creating the town of “Bradley.” When the village was first platted, it was only four blocks wide by eight blocks long. The name was changed to Dunton when William learned that there was already a Bradley in Illinois (note the word Dunton was later written in by hand). In 1874, the name changed once again to Arlington Heights.
  • Telephone Directory – 1909, January – Arlington Heights and Wheeling, Illinois
  • Telephone Directory – 1910, October – Arlington Heights and Wheeling, Illinois
  • Telephone Directory – 1911, April – Arlington Heights and Wheeling, Illinois
  • Telephone Directory – 1911, October – Arlington Heights and Wheeling, Illinois
  • Telephone Directory – 1912, April – Arlington Heights and Wheeling, Illinois.
  • Telephone Directory – 1912, October – Arlington Heights and Wheeling, Illinois.
  • Telephone Directory – 1913, April – Arlington Heights and Wheeling, Illinois.
  • Telephone Directory – 1913, September – Arlington Heights, Barrington, Palatine, and Wheeling, Illinois.
  • Telephone Directory – 1916, May – Arlington Heights, Barrington, Lake Zurich, Palatine, Wauconda and Wheeling, Illinois.
  • Telephone Directory – 1917, March – Arlington Heights, Barrington, Lake Zurich, Palatine, Wauconda, and Wheeling, Illinois.
  • Telephone Directory – 1919, September – Arlington Heights, Barrington, Lake Zurich, Palatine, Wauconda and Wheeling, Illinois.
  • Telephone Directory – 1924, July – Arlington Heights, Palatine, Mt. Prospect and Wheeling, Illinois
  • Telephone Directory – 1925, July – Arlington Heights, Palatine, Mt. Prospect and Wheeling, Illinois.
  • Arlington Heights Manual of Facts 1925
  • Telephone Directory – 1928, June – Arlington Heights, Palatine, Mt. Prospect and Wheeling, Illinois.
  • Arlington Heights Herald, Annual Progress Edition
    Arlington Heights Herald, Annual Progress Edition (Supplement), March 15, 1929, Vol. 3, No. 19, 34 pages.
  • Telephone Directory – 1929, June – Palatine, Arlington Heights, Mt. Prospect and Wheeling, Illinois.
  • Telephone Directory – 1930, June – Arlington Heights, Palatine, Mt. Prospect and Wheeling, Illinois
  • Business Men’s Directory 1930
  • Pictorial Arlington Heights 1930
  • Telephone Directory — 1933, July – Arlington Heights, Mount Prospect, Wheeling, and Palatine, Illinois.
  • Arlington Heights Municipal Directory 1935
  • Arlington Heights Municipal Directory 1939
  • Arlington Heights Municipal Directory 1943
  • Register of Certificates of Death
    Index only, exact years of coverage not supplied by the book images, nor the description.
  • Register of Interment Permits
    Index only, exact years of coverage not supplied by the book images, nor the description.
• Chicago Genealogy
  • Chicago City Council Proceedings Files, 1833–1871
  • Cook County Coroner’s Inquest Record Index, 1872–1911
  • Chicago Police Department Homicide Record, 1870–1930
  • 1936 Chicago area, Lithuanian telephone directory
  • Chicago & Suburbs: Obituaries from DRAUGAS and NAUJIENOS
• Chicago Ridge Genealogy
  • Newspaper, Golden Jubilee Souvenir Edition of the Worth-Palos Reporter, Chicago Ridge 1914-1964, June 25, 1964
  • Frieda Polchow Rutz Burba, personal narrative, 1968
    Personal narrative about the history of Chicago Ridge written by Frieda Polchow Rutz Burba in 1968. Frieda discusses local businesses, the post office, the Klee General Store, taverns and the one-room schoolhouse. Frieda was the daughter of Charles and Luzina Polchow. Charles served as the first president of Chicago Ridge when it organized as a village in 1914. Frieda’s first husband Gus Rutz, a former Chicago Ridge village trustee, died in 1952. She married Bruno Burba in 1955. Frieda is credited with organinzing the first Chicago Ridge Brownie Troop, Troop 215, in 1949. Frieda died in 1974 at the age of 69.
  • Diamond Jubilee Souvenir Edition of the Worth-Palos Reporter – Newspaper, Chicago Ridge 1914-1974, July 4, 1974
  • Bicentennial booklet, village of Chicago Ridge, 1976
  • Railroad history, Chicago Ridge, as told by Robert Babcock, 1976
  • Saluting Chicago Ridge on its 70th Anniversary – Newspaper, section 3 of the Reporter, October 25, 1984
  • Chicago Ridge 75th Diamond Jubilee Anniversary – Newspaper, section 1-B of the Reporter, July 13, 1989
• Park Ridge Genealogy
  • A History of Park Ridge
    A history of Park Ridge, Illinois written by Orvis F. Jordan
  • The History of Park Ridge, 1841-1926
    The first history of Park Ridge, Illinois, written by the Park Ridge Community Church Circle.

DeWitt County Genealogy

• DeWitt County Coroner’s Inquest Files Index (1924–1977)

Douglas County Genealogy

• Arthur Local Registrar’s Birth Certificates Index (1868–1925)
  The Arthur Local Registrar’s Birth Certificates Index was compiled by Heather Stecklein and Barry Hudek, interns for the Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD) System at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. The database indexes nearly 1,335 births that were recorded by the local registrar for the Village of Arthur between 1868 and 1925. The information in the database was extracted from the Arthur Local Registrar’s Birth Certificates
• Historical and Biographical Record of Douglas County, Illinois

Du Page County Genealogy

• Souvenir of St. Joseph’s Bohemian Orphanage, Lisle
• St. Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church, Roselle, DuPage County, Illinois
  • Baptisms Index
  • Confirmations Index
  • Marriages Index
  • Deaths Index

Fulton County Genealogy

• Fulton County Circuit Court Case Files Index (1825–1876)

Henry County Genealogy

• The Galva News (1916-2018)
• Galva Weekly News (1879-1915)
• Galva News (2011-2013)
• The Galva Standard (1910-1915)
• Galva Semi – Weekly News (1880-1880)

JoDaviess County Genealogy

• JoDaviess County Almshouse Registers Index (1846–1938)

Kane County Genealogy

• Aurora, Illinois Illustrated
• Kane County Circuit Court Case Files Index (1836–1870)

Knox County Genealogy

• The Galva News (1916-2018)
• Galva Weekly News (1879-1915)
• Galva News (2011-2013)
• The Galva Standard (1910-1915)
• Galva Semi – Weekly News (1880-1880)

Lake County Genealogy

• Lake County Circuit Court Case Files Index (1840–1898)

Livingston County Genealogy

• Livingston County Probate Case Files Index (1837–1958)

Logan County Genealogy

• Logan County Circuit Court Criminal Case Files Index (1857–1945)

Macon County Genealogy

• Macon County Circuit Court Case Files Index (1829–1861)

Macoupin County Genealogy

• Macoupin County Coroner’s Inquest Files Index (1835–1928)

Madison County Genealogy

• Madison County Probate Case Files Index (1813–1903)

Mattoon County Genealogy

• Mattoon Death Certificate Registers Index (1899–1918)
  The Mattoon Death Certificate Registers Index was compiled by Amanda Standerfer, intern for the Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD) System at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. The database indexes nearly 3,600 death records that were recorded by the local registrar in the City of Mattoon. The City of Mattoon is located in Coles County. The information in the database was extracted from the Mattoon Death Certificate Registers.
• Mattoon Court of Common Pleas Case Files Index (1869–1873)
  The Mattoon Court of Common Pleas Case Files Index was compiled by Jennifer Van Haaften and Amanda Standerfer, interns for the Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD) System at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. The index includes nearly 500 cases heard by the Common Pleas Court of the City of Mattoon from its inception in 1869 to its termination in 1873. The information in the database was extracted from the Mattoon Court of Common Pleas Case Files.

McHenry County Genealogy

• Algonquin the Beautiful
  A History of Its Pioneers and Settlement In Commemoration of Its 100th Birthday, 1935
• Time was…
  Algonquin Founder’s Days Collector’s Edition, August 9-13, 1972.
• Those Were the Days! Algonquin Founders Days Booklet, 1973
  Program Guide to the Algonquin Founders Days Festival, August 8th – 12th, 1973. The booklet contains information about the festival events, as well as historical information about the Village of Algonquin and its people. Includes photographs, diary.
• The Way We Were – Algonquin Founders Days, August 7-11, 1974
  Historical booklet featuring information about historical structures and people from Algonquin. Includes an excerpt from the diary of John Hamilton Cornish recounting his visit to the area in 1845 to see his brother, Dr. Andrew Cornish.

McLean County Genealogy

• History of McLean County, Illinois
• McLean County Probate Record Index (1834–1934)
• McLean County Will Record Index (1838–1940)

Mercer County Genealogy

• Mercer County Almshouse Register Index (1859–1948)

Menard County Genealogy

• Menard County Illinois Probate File Index 1839 – 1963

Montgomery County Genealogy

• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Montgomery County
• History of Bond and Montgomery Counties, Illinois
• Past and present of Montgomery County, Illinois
• Witt centennial : Witt, Montgomery County, Illinois, 1868-1968
• 1918 Prairie farmer’s directory of Montgomery County, Illinois
• An honor roll : containing a pictorial record of the gallant and courageous men from Montgomery County, Illinois, U.S.A., who served in the Great War, 1917-1918-1919

Morgan County Genealogy

• Morgan County Poor Farm Records Index (1850–1932)

Moultrie County Genealogy

• Village of Arthur Local Registrar’s Birth Certificates Index, 1868–1925
• The Whitley Point Record Book
  The Justice of the Peace Docket Book, Estray List and Country Store Record of the earliest Settlement in Moultrie County, Illinois.
• Memoir of a “Boy Mayor”
  Recollections of Sullivan, Illinois from the Civil War to 1909 by Walter Eden.
• Notes on the History of Sullivan in 1853
  John R. Eden, article reprinted in Moultrie County News, June 5, 1973.

Ogle County Genealogy

• Ogle County Almshouse Register Index (1878–1933)
• Ogle County Naturalization Papers (County Court) Index (1872–1906)

Peoria County Genealogy

• Peoria County Probate Case Files Index (1825–1887)

Piatt County Genealogy

• Piatt County, Illinois Marriage and Cemetery Records, 1841-53

Randolph County Genealogy

• The history of Randolph county, Illinois, including old Kaskaskia Island
• Historic Sites and Scenes in Randolph County, Illinois
• Prairie du Rocher Genealogy
  • Glimpses of Prairie du Rocher, its history from 1722 to 1942 intimately linked with that of Randolph County and of the state of Illinois
• Randolph Genealogy
  • Church Book, St. Peter’s Lutheran, Randolph (Bremen), Randolph County, Illinois, records
• Steelville Genealogy
  • The church book of Evangelical Lutheran St. Mark’s Congregation in Steeleville, Randolph County, Illinois

Rock Island County Genealogy

• Historic Rock Island County
  History of the settlement of Rock Island County from the earliest known period to the present time; embracing references of importance, and including a biography of Rock Island County’s well-known citizens
• The Biographical Record of Rock Island County, Illinois
• The Past and Present of Rock Island County, Illinois
  Containing a history of the county – its cities, towns, &c., a biographical directory of its citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion.
• Portrait and Biographical Album of Rock Island County, Illinois
  Containing full-page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of Illinois, and of the presidents of the United States; also containing a history of the county, from its earliest settlement to the present time
• Rock Island Probate Case Files Index (1834–1899)

Sangamon County Genealogy

• Sangamon County Guardian’s Case Files Index (1825–1901)
• Sangamon County Probate Case Files Index (1821–1885)

Shelby County Genealogy

• Shelby County Circuit Court Case Files Index (1828–1871)
  The Shelby County Circuit Court Case Files include chancery, criminal and common law proceedings. These case files generally show the names of the plaintiff, defendant, judge and clerk of the court; the court dates; and usually the charge or cause of action. Documents contained in these case files include: summonses, affidavits of witnesses, subpoenas, bonds, receipts, depositions, declarations, decrees and orders of the court, jury and witness lists, indictments, warrants, writs of habeas corpus, verdicts, dismissals and transcripts of coroner’s inquests.

St. Clair County Genealogy

• East St. Louis City Court Naturalization Papers Index (1874–1906)
• St. Clair County Circuit Court Chancery Case Files Index (1815–1870)
• St. Clair County Farm Board Record Index (1874–1879)

Stark County Genealogy

• Stark County Almshouse Register Index (1868–1941)

Stephenson County Genealogy

• Stephenson County, Illinois Biography
• The History of Stephenson County, Illinois:
  Containing biographical sketches, war record, statistics, portraits of early settlers, history of the Northwest, history of Illinois, &c.
• History of Stephenson County, Illinois:
  A record of its settlement, organization, and three-quarters of a century of progress. Fulwider, Vol. 1 Only
• 1917 Prairie Farmer’s directory of Stephenson County, Illinois
  Complete directory of the farmers of Stephenson County Illinois, with valuable information about each farm.

Vermillion County Genealogy

• History of Vermilion County, Illinois
  • Volume 1 – Historical
  • Volume 2 – Biographical
• History of Vermilion County, Illinois
  Together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources
• Vermilion County Coroner’s Inquest Files Index (1908–1956)
• Danville Genealogy
  • Scrap book: Amos Williams and early Danville, Illinois

Wayne County Genealogy

• Wayne County Coroner’s Inquest Record Index (1888–1960)
  The Wayne County Coroner’s Inquest Record Index was compiled by Jenny K. Crider and Erin Russell, interns for the Illinois Regional Archives Depository at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. The 1,122 records in the database were extracted from the Wayne County Coroner’s Inquest Records. Each entry found in the index contains the following categories of information: the name of the deceased; the date of inquest; the volume number; and the page numbers.

Will County Genealogy

• St. Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church, Eagle Lake, Will County, Illinois
  • Index
  • Baptisms Index (A-G)
  • Baptisms Index (H-N)
  • Baptisms Index (O-Z)
  • Confirmations Index
  • Marriages Index (A-L)
  • Marriages Index (M-Z)
  • Deaths Index

Winnebago County Genealogy

• Cherry Valley: our memories are warm, 1835-1976
  This is a series of PDFs which in turn have multiple pages. It looks like they have scanned each section of the book into separate PDF’s.

Woodford County Genealogy

• Woodford County Almshouse Registers Index (1868–1957)

Illinois Directories

Cook County Directories

• 1936 Chicago area, Lithuanian telephone directory

Moultrie County

• 1913 City Directory of Sullivan, Illinois
• 1922 City Directory of Sullivan and Lovington Illinois
• 1933-1934 City Directory of Sullivan, Illinois

Randolph County Directories

• 1859 directory, business mirror, and historical sketches of Randolph County

Illinois Genealogy Websites

United States Genealogy

• Illinois Genealogy
  • Rock Island County Genealogy and History

United States GenWeb Project

• Illinois USGenWeb

Adams, Alexander, Bond, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Cook, Crawford, Cumberland, DeKalb, DeWitt, Douglas, DuPage, Edgar, Edwards, Effingham, Fayette, Ford, Franklin, Fulton, Gallatin, Greene, Grundy, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Henderson, Henry, Iroquois, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Jersey, JoDaviess, Johnson, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Knox, Lake, LaSalle, Lawrence, Lee, Livingston, Logan, Macon, Macoupin, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Mason, Massac, McDonough, McHenry, McLean, Menard, Mercer, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Moultrie, Ogle, Peoria, Perry, Piatt, Pike, Pope, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Richland, Rock Island, Saline, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott, Shelby, Stark, St. Clair, Stephenson, Tazewell, Union, Vermilion, Wabash, Warren, Washington, Wayne, White, Whiteside, Will, Williamson, Winnebago, Woodford,

American History and Genealogy Project

• Illinois AHGP

Alexander, Clinton, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Lee, Massac, Pope, Pulaski, Saline, Union, Wabash, White, Williamson.

Illinois History

• Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819
  In the late fall and early winter of the year 1819 Dr. Richard Lee Mason made a journey from Philadelphia to Illinois, through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Some of his adventures were remarkable, and these, together with his observations on the country, the towns and the people whom he encountered, were recorded in a diary kept by him, which is now in the possession of his only surviving child, a daughter, who resides in Jacksonville, Ill.

Illinois Land Records

• U.S., Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1820-1908
  3,907 land management tract books containing official records of the land status and transactions involving surveyed public lands arranged by state and then by township and range. These books indicate who obtained the land, and include a physical description of the tract and where the land is located. The type of transaction is also recorded such as cash entry, credit entry, homesteads, patents (deeds) granted by the Federal Government, and other conveyances of title such as Indian allotments, internal improvement grants (to states), military bounty land warrants, private land claims, railroad grants, school grants, and swamp grants. Additional items of information included in the tract books are as follows: number of acres, date of sale, purchase price, land office, entry number, final Certificate of Purchase number, and notes on relinquishments and conversions.
• Arizona Land Patents online. Index.
• Database of Servitude and Emancipation Records (1722–1863)
• Public Domain Land Tract Sales Database

Illinois Military Records

• Illinois Forts
  List of colonial forts, trading posts, named camps, redoubts, reservations, general hospitals, national cemeteries, etc., established or erected in the United States from its earliest settlement to 1902.
• Revolutionary War
  • Revolutionary War Pension Records
• 1840 Pensioners Census
• Civil War Records
  • Histories of Illinois Civil War Regiments and Units
  • Civil War Pensions Index Cards
    Each card gives the soldier’s name, unit, the application number, the certificate number and the state from which the soldier served. In some cases, the soldier’s rank, terms of service, date of death and place of death are given. The index cards refer to pension applications of veterans who served in the U.S. Army between 1861 and 1917. The majority of the records pertain to Civil War veterans, but they also include veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, Indian wars, and World War I.
• World War 1 Records
  • World War 1 Draft Registration
  • World War 1 Draft Registration Records
• World War II Records
  • World War 2 Casualties – Army – Air Corps Casualty List
  • Illinois World War II Navy – Marines Casualty List
• Korean War Casualty List
• Vietnam War Casualty List
• Databases of Illinois Veterans
  • Database of Illinois War of 1812 Veterans
  • Database of Illinois Winnebago War Veterans
  • Database of Illinois Black Hawk War Veterans
  • Database of Illinois Mexican War Veterans
  • Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls
  • Database of Illinois Civil War Veterans
  • Database of Illinois Civil War Veterans Serving in the U.S. Navy
  • Database of Illinois Civil War Veterans of Missouri Units
  • Database of Illinois Spanish–American War Veterans
  • Database of the 1929 Illinois Roll of Honor
  • Database of Illinois Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home Residents

Illinois Native American Records

• Illinois Indian Tribes
  • Indian Tribes of Illinois and Indiana, 1822
• The Indian Tribes of the Chicago Region
• Sac and Fox Indians of Illinois

Illinois Newspapers

• The Advertiser (Collinsville, Ill., 1918-1922)
• Albion Journal (Albion, Ill., 1884-1900)
• Aledo Press (1894-1896)
• American Eagle (Washington, D.C., 1925-1996)
• The Arsenal Record (Rock Island, Ill., 1918-1919)
• The Ashton Gazette (Ashton, Ill., 1904-1922)
• Banker Farmer (Champaign, Ill., 1913-1927)
• Berkshire World and Cornbelt Stockman (Springfield, Ill., 1910-1926)
• Better Farming (Chicago, Ill., 1913-1925)
• Blue Mound Leader (1894-1899)
• The Bowen Chronicle (Bowen, Ill., 1900-1917)
• The Broad Ax (Chicago, Ill., 1895-1922)
• Bureau County Tribune (Princeton, Ill., 1892-1922)
• The Cairo Bulletin (Cairo, Ill., 1868-1922)
• The Champaign County News (1903-1916)
• The Champaign Daily News (1895-1919)
• Chicago Eagle (Chicago, Ill., 1892-1920)
• Chicago Examiner (1911-1914)
• Chicago Livestock World (Chicago, Ill., 1902-1917)
• Chicago Packer (Chicago, Ill., 1907-1939)
• Chillicothe Independent (Chillicothe, Ill., 1881-1885)
• Collyer’s Eye (1918-1922)
• Daily Illini (Urbana, Ill., 1874-1975)
• The Daily National Hotel Reporter (Chicago, Ill., 1918-1922)
• Daily National Live Stock Reporter (East St. Louis, Ill., 1916-1918)
• Daily Pantagraph (Bloomington, Ill., 1901)
• The Day Book (Chicago, Ill., 1911-1917)
• The De Pue Leader (De Pue, Ill., 1917-1918)
• The Deer Creek Progress (Deer Creek, Ill., 1919-1921)
• The DeKalb Chronicle (De Kalb, Ill., 1894-1895)
• The DeKalb Daily Chronicle (De Kalb, Ill., 1918-1930)
• Draugas (Chicago, Ill., 1917-1922)
• Dundee Weekly (1871-1872)
• Dziennik Chicagoski (Chicago, Ill., 1890-1922)
• Dziennik narodowy (Chicago, Ill., 1900-1918)
• Dziennik Zwiazkowy Zgoda (Chicago, Ill., 1908)
• The Evening Gazette (Monmouth, Ill., 1883-1887)
• Express (Tallula, Ill., 1895-1896)
• F&M College Reporter (Lancaster, Pa., 1964-1987)
• Farm Home (Springfield, Ill., 1899-1920)
• Farm Press (Chicago, Ill., 1906-1913)
• Farm, Field, and Fireside (Chicago, Ill., 1884-1906)
• Farm, Field, and Stockman (Chicago, Ill., 1885-1887)
• Farmer’s Wife (St. Paul, Minn., 1906-1939)
• Farmers Gazette (Sterling, Ill., 1883-1884)
• Farmers Voice (Chicago, Ill., 1898-1913)
• Farmers’ Review (Chicago, Ill., 1879-1918)
• Farmers’ Weekly Review (Joliet, Ill., 1929-2011)
• Ford County Journal (Paxton, Ill., 1859-1860)
• Franklin Reporter (1878-1922)
• Galena Gazette (Galena, Ill., 1876-1889)
• The Galva News (1916-2018)
• Galva Weekly News (1879-1915)
• Galva News (2011-2013)
• The Galva Standard (1910-1915)
• Galva Semi – Weekly News (1880-1880)
• The Galena Tribune (Galena, Ill., 1905-1906)
• Gallatin Democrat (Shawneetown, Ill., 1906)
• Glas Svobode (Chicago, Ill., 1917-1922)
• Goreville Record (Goreville, Ill., 1905-1906)
• Great Lakes Bulletin (Great Lakes, Ill., 1918-1919)
• Glos polek (Chicago, Ill., 1902-1922)
• The Henry Republican (Henry, Ill., 1901-1921)
• Hillsboro Journal (Hillsboro, Ill., 1886-1891)
• Hlasatel (Berwyn, Ill., 1920)
• Hoya (Washington, D.C., 1959-1980)
• Hutsonville Herald (Hutsonville, Ill., 1905)
• Hyde Park News (Chicago, Ill., 1886-1889)
• Illinois Farmer (Springfield, Ill., 1856-1864)
• The Illinois Issue (Chicago, Ill., 1906-1912)
• The Illinois Star (1935-1941)
• The Industry Press (Industry, Ill., 1916-1921)
• The Irish Republic (1867-1868)
• Ithacan (Ithaca, N.Y., 1926-2002)
• Joliet Signal (Joliet, Ill., 1846-1864)
• The Lacon Home Journal (Lacon, Ill., 1910-1921)
• Lancaster Farming (Lancaster, Pa., 1955-1983)
• Lawrence County News (Lawrenceville, Ill., 1909-1922)
• Lee County Farm News (Amboy, Ill., 1922)
• Lietuva (Chicago, Ill., 1913-1920)
• Lincoln News (Lincoln University, Pa., 1925-1932)
• Lincolnian (Lincoln University, Pa., 1933-2003)
• Local Record (1878-1892)
• The Macomb Daily By-stander (Macomb, Ill., 1920-1922)
• The Macomb Journal (Macomb, Ill., 1861-1909)
• Marion Semi-Weekly Leader (Marion, Ill., 1921-1922)
• Mason City Journal (Mason City, Ill., 1875-1876)
• The Merchants Telegram (Chicago, Ill., 1919-1920)
• The Monmouth Daily Atlas (Monmouth, Ill., 1905-1922)
• Moultrie County News 1886-1948, not inclusive
• The National Prohibitionist (1907-1910)
• National Rural and Family Magazine (Chicago, Ill., 1898-1900)
• New York Clipper (New York, N.Y., 1853-1924)
• The News-Herald (Chicago, Ill., 1889)
• Ohio Farmer (Cleveland, Ohio, 1907-1922)
• The Old Soldier (Springfield, Ill., 1840)
• The Ottawa Free Trader (Ottawa, Ill., 1840-1890)
• The Patoka register (Patoka, Ill., 1907-1912)
• Player (New York, N.Y., 1911-1913)
• Prairie Farmer (Chicago, Ill., 1841-1941)
• Proletarec (Chicago, Ill., 1906-1918)
• The Quill (La Harpe, Ill., 1892-1922)
• The Republican-Atlas (Monmouth, Ill., 1895-1913)
• Reynolds Press (1896)
• The Rock Island Argus (Rock Island, Ill., 1889-1915)
• Sangamo Journal / Illinois State Journal (Springfield, Ill., 1831-1865)
• The Saturday Blade (Chicago, Ill., 1905-1919)
• Saturday Herald 1899-1915, not inclusive, Sullivan Illinois
• Sidney Times (Sidney, Ill., 1908-1910)
• St. Anne Record (St. Anne, Ill., 1905-1923)
• Sullivan Democrat 1899-1911, not inclusive
• Sullivan Express 1857-1860, not inclusive
• Sullivan Herald 1923-1926, not inclusive
• Sullivan Progress 1888-1948, not inclusive
• Sycamore Tribune (1944-1964)
• Tampico Tornado (1876-1892)
• Telegraf (Chicago, Ill., 1892-1901)
• Toluca Star-Herald (Toluca, Ill., 1913-1920)
• True Republican (Sycamore, Ill., 1869-1968)
• Ty´denni´ hlasatel (Chicago, Illinois, 1892-1893)
• The Universalist (1886-1897)
• Urbana Daily Courier (Urbana, Ill., 1903-1935)
• Vaudeville News (New York, N.Y., 1920-1929)
• Vorbote (Chicago, Ill., 1917-1920)
• Wallace’s Farmer (Des Moines, Iowa, 1898-1950)
• Warren County Democrat (Monmouth, Ill., 1887-1913)
• Weekly Gettysburgian (Gettysburg, Pa., 1897-2004)
• Weekly Pantagraph (1883-1916)
• Western Railroad Gazette (Chicago, Ill., 1856-1870)
• Western Rural and American Stockman (Chicago, Ill., 1879-1894)
• Western Rural and Livestock Weekly (Chicago, Ill., 1896-1898)
• Western Rural (Chicago, Ill., 1868-1883)
• Whiteside Chronicle (Sterling, Ill., 1870-1871)
• Zgoda – Unity (Milwaukee, Wi. Chicago, Ill., 1893-1901)
• Zgoda – Unity (Chicago, Ill., 1914-1922)
• Zgoda : Wydania dla niewiast (Chicago, Ill., 1900-1913)
• Zgoda : Wydanie dla me?z?czyzn (Chicago, Ill., 1902-1913)
• The Zion Banner (Zion, Ill., 1901-1903)
• The Zion City Independent (Zion, Ill., 1910-1917)
• The Zion Herald (Zion, Ill., 1907-1910)

Lake County Newspapers

• Post Tribune or Gary Post Tribune Obituary Index (1921-current)
  The Lake County Public Library has provided a searchable online database of obituaries in the Post Tribune/Gary Post Tribune (1921 to the present). Browse or search.
• Lake County Register and Star from 1857-1938
  The Lake County Public Library has provided a searchable online database of marriages and deaths (1857 through 1938) and birth announcements (1931 through 1938) in the Lake County Register and Star. There are 14,864 names available to search or browse.

Rock Island County Newspapers

• Daily Dispatch
• Daily Journal
• Evening Mail
• Moline Daily Dispatch
• Moline Daily Journal
• Moline Evening Mail And Journal
• Moline Independent
• Moline Mail And Journal
• Moline Review
• Moline Review Dispatch
• Moline Sunday Mail And Journal
• Moline Weekly Journal
• Moline Weekly Mail
• Moline Workman
• Review Dispatch
• Sunday Mail
• Weekly Mail

Illinois Obituaries

• Illinois Obituaries
• Chicago & Suburbs: Obituaries from DRAUGAS and NAUJIENOS
• Park Ridge Obituaries
  Nearly 30,000 searchable records are drawn from items published between 1929 and 2000 in area newspapers, including the Park Ridge Herald, Pine Ridge Advocate, and Park Ridge Herald Advocate.

Illinois Vital Records

• Illinois Vital Records
• Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940
  Name index to birth, baptism and christening records from the state of Illinois. Microfilm copies of these records are available at the Family History Library and Family History Centers. Due to privacy laws, recent records may not be displayed. The year range represents most of the records. A few records may be earlier or later.
• Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900
• Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935
  Name index to marriage records from the state of Illinois. Microfilm copies of these records are available at the Family History Library and Family History Centers. Due to privacy laws, recent records may not be displayed. The year range represents most of the records. A few records may be earlier or later.
• Illinois Statewide Death Index, Pre–1916
• Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947
  Name index of deaths and stillbirths in Illinois, 1916-1947.
• Database of Illinois Death Certificates, 1916–1950
• Cook County
  • Cook County Birth Certificates 1878-1922
    Indexes and images of certificates of birth as recorded at Cook County, Illinois – including the City of Chicago. Collection currently includes only years 1878-1915.
  • Cook County Birth Registers 1871-1915
    Name index and images of birth registers as recorded at Cook County, Illinois – including the City of Chicago. Collection currently includes years 1871-1879, 1906-June 1907, and July 1908-1915.
  • Cook County Marriages 1871-1920
    Name index and images of marriage licenses and returns recorded at Cook County, Illinois – including the City of Chicago.

Illinois School Yearbooks

• Champaign Central High School Yearbooks
  The Maroon Library at Champaign Central High School has digitized 94 yearbooks of Champaign Central High School. These yearbook images they placed online for everyone to view for free. To facilitate your access we have provided links to the individual yearbooks, by year published, oldest to newest.
• Sullivan County
  • Sullivan High School Year Books 1913-1958, not inclusive
    Scanned images of some of the Sullivan High School year books from 1913-1958.