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Resources for Lake County, Illinois; Illinois; historic law; post-adoption; continuing education; and forensic genealogy. Debbie Mieszala is a professional genealogist and popular lecturer for genealogical seminars and institutes.
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Session laws including public and private acts, compiled statutes, revised statutes, and other works that address Illinois territorial and state statutory law are included.
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A blog post by the author, Debbie Mieszala about using the Historic Illinois Statutes on her site.
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About Indexes to Illinois Statutory Law
A blog post by the author, Debbie Mieszala about using the indexes on her site.
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Advancing Genealogist - Law: Illinois
Resources for Lake County, Illinois; Illinois; historic law; post-adoption; continuing education; and forensic genealogy. Debbie Mieszala is a professional genealogist and popular lecturer for genealogical seminars and institutes.
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Black code of Illinois (Internet Archive)
by Eastman, Zebina
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Caselaw Access Project - Illinois
The Caselaw Access Project (“CAP”) expands public access to U.S. law. The goal is to make all published U.S. court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law School Library.
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Google Books - Illinois Statutes
Search results for digitized books on historical statutes for the state. For each book, view the book within your web browser or hover over "EBOOK - FREE" and choose the ebook option you wish to download.
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Hathi Trust Digital Library - Illinois Statutes
Catalog search results for digitized books on historical statutes for the state.
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Historic Chicago Legal Periodicals
The Advancing Genealogist's library of linked digitized legal periodicals includes the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and the Chicago Legal News.
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Historic Northwest Territory Law
The Advancing Genealogist's Online Law Library page of Historic Northwest Territory law links.
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Illinois General Assembly - Illinois Compiled Statutes
The current state statutory law.
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Internet Archive Texts - American Libraries - Illinois Statutes
Catalog search results for digitized books on historical statutes for the state.
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Law Library of Congress - Guide to Law Online - Illinois
A directory of law resources for the state: Constitution, Executive, Judicial, Legislative, Legal Guides, General Sources.
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The Federal and State Constitutions, 7 vols. | Online Library of Liberty
Francis Newton Thorpe was commissioned by the U.S. Congress to edit a 7 volume collection of Colonial, Federal and State constitutions in 1906. The volumes are in alphabetical order, with Volume 1 dealing with United States-Alabama-District of Columbia; Vol. 2 Florida-Kansas; Vol. 3 Kentucky-Massachusetts; Vol. 4 Michigan-New Hampshire; Vol. 5 New Jersey-Philippine Islands; Vol. 6 Porto Rico-Vermont; Vol. 7 Virginia-Wyoming.
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The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws[...] Vol. II Florida—Kansas (Google Books)
Series by Francis Newton Thorpe.
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The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws[...] Volumes I-VII (HathiTrust)
Series by Francis Newton Thorpe. Various options for a full view of each volume.