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Biography & History
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America's Obituaries & Death Notices

A comprehensive collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices in an interface that allows searching by name, date range, or text such as More

institutional name, social affiliation(s), geographic location(s), philanthropic activities, etc.Hide

Biography in Context

Biography in Context combines biographies from over 130 sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, More

Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with full-text biographical articles from more than 265 magazines.Hide

Biography and Genealogy Master Index

Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexes biographical dictionaries and who's whos, subject encyclopedias, and literary criticism. It also acts as More

an index to other indexes. BGMI indexes only reference works containing multiple biographies; it does not index periodical articles or books of biography about a single individual.Hide

Chicago Tribune

Detailed indexing for The Chicago Tribune with coverage back to 1985.

Chicago Tribune Archive

Useful for finding obituaries and news articles from 1849-1984.

E-Journal Portal Publications

Find specific online publications by title or by subject.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

History Study Center

History Study Center provides digitized primary and secondary sources with documents and articles organized under widely-studied topics, More

with reference works, images, video clips and links to 2,000 Web sites.Hide

Illinois Statewide Catalog

SILC is the Illinois catalog of materials for libraries throughout the state.

Newsbank: America's Newspapers

The electronic editions of record for local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers including: the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, More

the Daily Herald, the Glenview Announcements, the New York Times, major metro Newspapers, and local newspapers throughout Illinois.Hide

OCLC FirstSearch

A gateway to multiple databases for articles in business, management, science, humanities, education, health and medicine including ArticleFirst, ClasePeriodica, ECO, ERIC and Medline.

Proquest Newsstand

Detailed indexing to the following selection newspaper titles: USA TODAY, Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Barron's, More

The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel, the Advocate and more.Hide

SIRS Knowledge Source

Excellent database for student assignments on social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political, and global issues. Full text More

articles archived from 1989 to present many with graphics, charts, maps, and diagrams.Hide

World News Digest

Facts On File World News Digest since 1940 and a live newsfeed from Reuters® to answer questions about events, people, issues, facts, and figures of the last 60+ years.

WorldCat.org

The WorldCat library catalog lets you search for books and audio visual materials in library collections in our community, throughout Illinois and in thousands of libraries around the country and the world.