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• LDS Family History Catalog Search  (do a place search by state or county or town etc. to see what has been filmed)
  
  
• American Local History Network: Illinois 
   
• Chicago Ancestors - help for those researching in the early large (and difficult) Chicago area [Newberry Library]
  
  
• Illinois Alive!
  
  
• Illinois Databases at Rootsweb
  
  
• Illinois Trails
  
  
• Quakers in Illinois
  
  
• Southern Illinois Ancestors
  
  

Research Guides

• FamilySearch Resource Guide: Illinois
  
  

Archives & Libraries

• Illinois State Genealogical Society
  
  
• Illinois State Historical Library
  
  
• Illinois State Archives Global Search (search all their databases at once)
  
  

Census Resources

• Census Online: Illinois
  
• Guide to Census Records in Cook Co. IL
  
  
• U.S. GenWeb Census Search
  
  

Geographic Resources

• Historical Maps Online is done by the University of Illinois but they have much more than just Illinois maps
  
• IllinoisAtlas.com
  
  
• Illinois County Boundaries 1790-Present
  
  
• Illinois Historical Maps (David Rumsey Collection)
  
  
• Illinois Maps: Perry Castaneda Library
  
  
• Panoramic Maps 1847-1929:
  
  
• Rootsweb Town Search
  
  

History Resources

• Early Cholera Epidemics, Chicago, IL
  
  
• Illinois & Michigan Canal Home Page
  
  
• Illinois History Pages
  
  
• Illinois History Resource Page
  
  

Land Records

• Bureau of Land Management Land Patent Search
  
  
• Federal Township Plats of Illinois 1804-1890
  
  
• Land Sales in Illinois
  
  
• Military Tract of Illinois
  
  

Military Records

• American Forts: Illinois
  
  
• Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in Illinois
  
  
• War of 1812 in Illinois
  
  
• BlackHawk War (1832)
  
  
• 1840 Census of Pensioners: Illinois
  
  
• Illinois Civil War Project
  
  
• Illinois in the Civil War
  
  

Newspapers

• Illinois Newspaper Project Database Search Form (You may simply search by county to see what newspapers existed in that area - if you find holdings the rolls may be borrowed through inter-library loan)
  
  
• Kidon Media-Link: Illinois
  
  
  

Vital Records

• Illinois Vital Records Information
  
  
• Illinois Marriage Index
  
  
• Illinois Death Index 1916-1950
  
  
• CemSearch Illinois
  
  
• Cemeteries in the Midwest (Northern IL)
  
  
• Cemetery Junction: Illinois
  
  
• Cemetery Records Online: Illinois
  
  
• Illinois Obituaries [Ancestor Hunt]
  
  
• Illinois Obituaries [Rootsweb]
  
  

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