Phone Books, Criss Cross Directories & City Directories @ Libraries
Arlington Heights Memorial Library
Haines Chicago Near North Suburban Criss-cross, 1979-2018
Barrington Area Library *For many of the directories dated 1905-1956, surrounding areas like Lake Zurich and Wauconda are included.
Barrington Area Phone Books (Online)
February 1905 Index
July 1908 Index
March 1909 Index
September 1909 Index
April 1910 Index
October 1910
April 1911 Index
October 1911 Index
March 1912 Index
October 1912 Index
April 1913 Index
July 1924 Index
July 1925 Index
December 1926 Index
June 1929
December 1929
July 1930
January 1931
July 1931
July 1932
January 1933
January 1934
July 1935
January 1937
December 1939
Barrington Area Phone Books (Paper)
March 1942
September 1946
June 1947
March 1948
September 1949
December 1951
September 1952
May 1953
May 1956
1996-1997 Barrington and Nearby Yellow Pages
1997-1998 Barrington and Nearby Yellow Pages
1998-1999 Barrington and Nearby Yellow Pages
1999-2000 Barrington and Nearby Yellow Pages
2004 Arlington Heights Barrington Yellowbook
2005 Arlington Heights Barrington Yellowbook
2006 Arlington Heights Barrington Yellowbook
2007-2008 Arlington Heights Barrington Yellowbook
2015-2016 Arlington Heights Barrington Yellowbook
2016-2017 Arlington Heights Barrington Yellowbook
2012-2013 Yellowbook
2013-2014 Yellowbook
2014-2015 Yellowbook
2015-2016 Yellowbook
Dec 1999 Barrington
Dec 2000 Barrington
2003 Barrington
2005-2006 Barrington
2007 Barrington
2007-2008 Barrington
2008 Barrington
2009 Barrington
2009-2010 Barrington
2000-2001 NW
Dec 2001 NW
Dec 2002 NW
Dec 2003 NW
Dec 2004 NW Barrington
Dec 2005 NW
Dec 2006 NW
Dec 2007 NW
Dec 2008 NW
2009 NW
2010 NW
Dec 2011 NW
Dec 2012 NW
Dec 2014 NW
2017 NW
Batavia Public Library
Batavia Telephone Directories: Batavia, Geneva & St. Charles
1934-1944
1945-1950
1952-1956
Tri-City Directory - Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles
1910-1911
1912-1913
1917-1918
1924-1925
1928-1929
1932-1933
1936-1937
1940, 1943, 1947
Polk City Directories - Fox Valley Area - Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles
1950, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968-1989, 1991-2007, 2009-2018
Polk City Directory - Aurora Area
1998
Batavia Home Pages - Batavia
2006-2016, 2018
AT&T Yellow Pages - Business to Business - Chicagoland, Northwest Indiana & Rockford
2010-2014
Illinois Bell Pages - Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles
June 1973
Ameritech Pages - Geneva Area - Batavia, St. Charles, Wasco, Wayne, La Fox
2001-2002
SBC Pages - Geneva Area - Batavia, St. Charles, Wasco, Wayne, La Fox
2003
SBC Pages - Geneva Area - 630 Area Code
2004-06
AT&T Pages - Area Codes - 630, 847, 815, 779
2007
AT&T Pages - Area Codes - 630/331, 847/224, 815/779
2008-2010
AT&T Pages - Area Codes - Batavia, Geneva, St. Charles, Wasco, Wayne, La Fox
2011-2014
Haines Directory - Chicago - West
2015-2018
Glenview Public Library
This link is a listing of all of their directories that include Glenview phone books that go back to 1909 and the Haines Near North and Far North Suburbs dating back to 1969. https://www.glenviewpl.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/genealogy_phone_directories.pdf
Indian Trails Public Library
Wheeling Residence and Business Directory 1968-69
Wheeling / Half Day, May 1966 through May 1973
Wheeling June 1974
Northwest Suburbs July 1975
Northwest Suburbs July 1976
Wheeling / Half Day, July 1976, July 1977
Wheeling / Half Day, August 1978 through August 1985
Wheeling September 1987
Wheeling / Aptakisic / Buffalo Grove / Half Day / Long Grove / Prairie View 1988-89
Wheeling September 1990
Wheeling September 1992-93
Wheeling September 1993-94
Wheeling September 1994-95
Wheeling December 1995-96
Wheeling December 1999
Wheeling / Buffalo Grove December 2000
Wheeling (Yellowbook) 2000-2001
Northwest Area (Wheeling / Buffalo Grove ed.) December 2002
Northwest Suburbs (Yellow Pages) December 2004
Arlington Heights / Barrington Yellowbook 2004-2005
Northwest Suburbs Yellow Pages, December 2006 through December 2008
Arlington Heights / Barrington Yellowbook 2009-2010
Business to Business Directory Real Yellow Page (Dex) March 2011
Northwest Suburbs Yellow Page (Dex) December 2011
Arlington Heights Barrington Yellowbook 2012-2013
Northwest Suburbs Yellow Pages, December 2013, December 2014
Arlington Heights / Barrington Yellowbook 2014-2015
Northwest Suburbs Yellow Page (Dex) January 2016
Arlington Heights / Barrington Yellowbook 2017-2018
Street / Criss-Cross Directories
The Street Address Telephone Directory (Ameritech) Northwest Suburban, April 2001 through April 2005
Joliet Public Library
Joliet City Directory: 1875-1940 on microfilm; 1899-present, various editions in book form.
Will County Directory: 1872-73 on microfilm; 1859-1860 and 1872-73 in book form.
Joliet Telephone Directory: 1908-present, various editions
Collection includes various directories for Chicago from 1885-1974 as well as various Chicago Suburban directories from 1948-1975
McHenry Public Library District
Haines Chicago Far North Suburban Criss-Cross, 1980, 1982-2018
Oak Lawn Public Library
Paper Copies
1928-1929 Summit-Argo, Oak Lawn Spring Forest, Justice, Clearing (Restricted - in library use only)
July 1927 Evergreen Park, Mt. Greenwood, Oak Lawn (Restricted - in library use only)
July 1932 Evergreen Park, Oak Lawn (Restricted - in library use only)
January 1942 Evergreen Park, Oak Lawn (Restricted - in library use only)
January 1943 Evergreen Park, Oak Lawn (Restricted - in library use only)
January 1948 Evergreen Park, Oak Lawn (Restricted - in library use only)
October 1948 Evergreen Park, Oak Lawn (Restricted - in library use only)
July 1949 Evergreen Park, Oak Lawn (Restricted - in library use only)
August 1952 Evergreen Park, Oak Lawn (Restricted - in library use only)
April 1955 Evergreen Park, Oak Lawn (Restricted - in library use only)
April 1956 Evergreen Park, Oak Lawn (Restricted - in library use only)
1956-1957 Civic & Business Directory (Restricted - in library use only)
1959-2018 South Suburban
Digitzed and on Library Website under "Local History"
1924-1956 Evergreen Park, Oak Lawn
1959-1985 Burbank, Evergreen Park, Oak Lawn
1992-1995 Evergreen Park, Oak Lawn, Hometown, Chicago Ridge
We also have several Independent Directories published sporadically that focused on Oak Lawn only. These are digitized and online.
Plainfield Public Library
Will County Directory 1900
Plainfield Phone Books 1926-1955, 1962
Joliet City Directories, 1927, 1932, 1963-present (does not include Plainfield until 1995)
Lockport City Directories, 1974-1993, missing 1990 (does include Plainfield until 1994)
Schaumburg Township District Library
Chicago Telephone Directory: 1936, 1944 and 1953
Chicago Suburban Telephone Directory: 1958-59
Chicago Suburban North Telephone Directory: 1961-62, 1964-65
Chicago Northwest Suburbs: 1982, 1983 on CD-ROM
Roselle: 1928
Roselle & Medinah: 1960-61; 1961-62; 1964-65; 1965-66; 1968-69; 1970
Arlington Heights, Palatine, Mount Prospect and Wheeling: 1940
Bartlett, Roselle: 1948, 1949
Bartlett, Roselle and Bloomingdale: 1953, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959
Roselle, Bloomingdale, Hoffman Estates Schaumburg: 1982-1989
Hoffman Estates, Schaumburg: 1990-2000
Northwest Area, Schaumburg & Hoffman Estates: 2000-2004
Northwest Suburbs, Schaumburg & Hoffman Estates: 2007-2011, 2016
Northwest Suburbs (Business) Universal Publishing: 2000
Schaumburg & Hoffman Estates & Other Suburbs (Business) Yellow Page One: 1991-1992, 1996-1997
Schaumburg & Hoffman Estates & Other Suburbs (Business) Yellow Book: 2002-2003
Schaumburg & Hoffman Estates & Other Suburbs (Business) Yellow Pages, Inc.: 2003-2004, 2006-2007, 2008-2009, 2009-2010
Northwest Suburban Street Address Telephone Directory (SBC): 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009
Haines Chicago Near North Suburban Criss-Cross Directory: 2010-present
Wheaton Public Library
Chicago Suburban Telephone Directories: 1920-1971 (microfilm, covering all suburbs)
DuPage County Directory: 1924-1925
Haines Chicago West Suburban Criss Cross Directory: 1988-2021
Haines Chicago Near West Suburban Criss Cross Directory: 2004-2021
Wheaton Area Phone Books: 1951-2016 (most including surrounding communities such as Glen Ellyn, Warrenville, West Chicago, and Winfield)
Wheaton City Directory: 1940 and 1950
Wheaton-Warrenville Polk City Directory: 1999
Wilmette Public Library
Evanston and Wilmette City Directory 1893
Polk's Evanston and North Shore City Directory: 1927-28,1933, 1935, 1937 and 1939
Wilmette and Kenilworth Phone Books 1924-1942 PRINT AND/OR ONLINE
Glencoe, Wilmette, Winnetka and Kenilworth Phone Books 1909-1912, 1945 ONLINE
Chicago Suburban North Phone Books 1960-1963, 1965-1968, 1982, 2002-2004, 2008
Haines Chicago Far North Suburban Criss-Cross Directory. 1996-2015
Haines Chicago Near North Suburban Criss-Cross Directory. 1990-2018
Arlington Heights….Wheeling -- May 1959