Databases @ Libraries

•     Arlington Heights

•     Barrington

•     Cook Memorial

•     Batavia

•     Des Plaines

•     Downers Grove

•     Ela Area

•     Glenview

•     Highland Park

•     Indian Trails

•     Mt. Prospect 

•     Niles

•     Palatine

•     Schaumburg Township

•     St. Charles

•     Wheaton

•     Wilmette

 Chicago Tribune Historical Archive:(Newsbank)

•     Algonquin 

•     Chicago

•     Cook Memorial

•     Des Plaines

•     Morton Grove

•     Oak Lawn

•     Schaumburg Township

Chicago Tribune On Digital Microfilm (Proquest)

•      Des Plaines

Chicagoland News Source  (Newsbank)

• •     Indian Trails

Daily Herald  (1995-present)

• •     Barrington

  •     Cook Memorial

  •     Des Plaines

  •     Ela Area

  •     Glenview

  •     Palatine

Daily Herald Digital Archive  (1901-2013)

• •     Mount Prospect 

  •     Wauconda

Downers Grove Obituary Index

•        Downers Grove

Downers Grove Reporter 1895 – 1922 Digitized

•       Downers Grove

Downers Grove Reporter 1895 – 2018 Microfilm

•       Downers Grove

Find My Past

• •      Arlington Heights

  •     Town and Country Library (Elburn)

  •     Wilmette

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Valuable and unique content that consists of more than 60 million pages of historical documents and personal histories; includes millions of records available from the National Archives and other institutions. These digital images of records represent a growing collection of historic documents.

•    Arlington Heights

•    Barrington

•    Cary

•    Cook Memorial

•    Ela Area

•    Glenview

•    Huntley

•    Mt. Prospect

•    Palatine

•    Schaumburg Township

•    St. Charles

Genealogy Bank

•     Indian Trails

•     Schaumburg

•     St. Charles

•     Town and Country Library (Elburn)

 Glenview Obituary Index

•     Glenview 

 Hanover Township

•    Hanover Township Treasurer & Schools, 1850-March 1978. Microfilm only

•    Hanover Township Town Records, 1850-1978. Microfilm only 

Heritage Hub

•   Huntley

•   Mount Prospect

 Heritage Quest Online

•    Algonquin

•    Antioch

•    Barrington

•    Arlington Heights

•    Barrington

•    Batavia

•    Belvidere

•    Cary

•    Chicago

•    Crystal Lake

•    Deerfield

•    Des Plaines

•    Downers Grove

•    Ela Area

•    Glenview

•    Highland Park

•    Huntley

•    Indian Trails

•    Joliet

•    Mt. Prospect

•    Morton Grove

•    Mount Prospect 

•    Niles

•    Oak Lawn

•    Palatine

•    Poplar Creek

•    Schaumburg Township  

•    St. Charles 

•    Town and Country Library (Elburn)

•    Wauconda

•    Wheaton

•    Wilmette

•    Zion Benton

Historic Elburn Newspapers

• •   Town and Country Library (Elburn)

Historic Map Works

• • St. Charles  

  • Town and Country Library (Elburn)

Illinois Public Records

•     Antioch

•     Barrington

•     Chicago

•     Cook Memorial

•     Downers Grove

•     Morton Grove

•     Palatine

•     Schaumburg Township

•     St. Charles

•     Wauconda

Kane County Chronicle

• • Batavia  (1990- present)

  • St. Charles (1990-present)

  • Town and Country Library (Elburn)

Lake Zurich Courier (1995-current)

•    Ela Area

Libertyville Newspapers (Link to VITA Page)

•    Cook Memorial

 Milestone Documents in American History

 Primary source documents pertaining to the history of the United States

MyHeritage Library Edition

• •     Des Plaines

  •     Downers Grove

  •     St. Charles

New York Times (June 1, 1980 - Present)

•         Downers Grove   

•         Cook Memorial

•         Ela Area  

•         Palatine

*New York Times Historical Archive

The complete paper--cover-to-cover--from its first issue in 1851 to 2002. 

•     Barrington

•     Cook Memorial

•     Des Plaines

•     Highland Park

•     Schaumburg Township

•     St. Charles

•     Wilmette

New York Times On Digital Microfilm (Proquest)

•     Arlington Heights

•    Des Plaines

 Newsbank: America's Newspapers

•     Arlington Heights

•     Barrington

•     Glenview

•     Deerfield

•     St. Charles

Newspaper Archive

• •     Mt. Prospect

  •     Palatine

  •     Schaumburg

  •    Wheaton

Newspapers.com

• • Belvidere

  • Ela Area 

  • Glenview

  • Huntley

  • McHenry

  •  Mount Prospect

  • Palatine

  • Wauconda

  • Wilmette

Newsstand  (Proquest)

• •    Des Plaines 

  •    Indian Trails

Oak Lawn newspaper index

• •   Oak Lawn

Obituaries (Proquest)

• •    Des Plaines

 OCLC FirstSearch 

•     Algonquin

•     Barrington

•     Batavia

•     Cary

•     Downers Grove

•    Glenview

•    Indian Trails

•    Wauconda

 Reference Solutions (formerly ReferenceUSA, Now Data Axle)

•     Algonquin

•     Barrington

•     Batavia

•     Chicago

•    Glenview

•    Deerfield

•    Des Plaines 

•    Downers Grove

•    Ela Area

•    Highland Park

•    Indian Trails

•    Morton Grove

•    Niles

•    Palatine

•    Schaumburg Township

•    Wauconda

•    Wheaton

•    Wilmette

Sanborn Maps of Illinois

Large scale plans of a city or town drawn to the scale of 50 feet to an inch.  Search the archive of maps from 1867-1970. 

•     Chicago

•     Cook Memorial

•     Wheaton

St. Charles Chronicle/Kane County Chronicle (1842-1993)

•    St. Charles (Called Local History Newspapers on their website)

US Newsstream

•     Glenview

Who's Who

•     Arlington Heights 

•     Wilmette

Wilmette Beacon  (2011-ongoing)

• •    Wilmette  (In house use only)

Wilmette Life  (2008-ongoing)

• •     Wilmette  (In house use only)

Wilmette Local History records  (local papers and indexed obituaries)

• •     Wilmette

World Cat Discovery

• Cary   

• Downers Grove

• Mount Prospect 

• Wilmette