Genealogy and local history research: digitized images of the U.S. Federal Census from 1790 forward,  Passenger and Immigration Lists Index.

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

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

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

Find specific online publications by title or by subject.

Facts On File Biographies of important personages both past and present.

A cross searching platform of e-reference books on multiple topics.

Research materials for tracing family history and American culture for beginning or professional genealogists.

History Study Center provides digitized primary and secondary sources with documents and articles organized under widely-studied topics, with reference works, images, video clips and links to 2,000 Web sites.

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

The electronic editions of record for local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers from around the United States. Select newspapers by state or region.

Search The Chicago Sun Times, The Daily Herald, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and several other Midwest regional newspapers, as well as nationally known magazines and journals.

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

Formerly SuperTOM, this database is designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers More

A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, More

Designed for school-aged students, this encyclopedia contains every article from the 22-volume print set plus state-of-the art multimedia and editor-reviewed Web sites.

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.

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.