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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum

Springfield, Illinois. The Library is a public, non-circulating research facility that contains material on all aspects of Illinois' history. Particularly noteworthy are the Library's holdings in published resources, manuscripts, newspapers, audiovisual & Lincolniana.

American Theological Library Association

Chicago.

Augustana College - Thomas Tredway Library

Rock Island, Illinois.

Billy Graham Center Archives

Digital State Archives - Illinois

There's something not quite right when the online state archives for Illinois can only rustle up 42 documents on Abraham Lincoln. Still, the archives have some valuable collections for family history research. There are muster rolls here from the Civil War, town directories, old newspaper archives, and a scary looking clown. Do check it out.

Digitized Collections | Northwestern University Library

Located in Evanston, Illinois. The Digitized Collections include: archival and manuscript collection finding aids, photograph collections, maps, books and more.

Explore Chicago Collections

A free, centralized, web-based search engine and record-finding tool that will allow researchers, teachers, students, and the general public to locate or access over 100,000 maps, photos, letters, and other archival materials held at its member institutions. These twenty-one members include the likes of the Chicago History Museum and the Newberry Library.

FamilySearch - Family History Center Locator: Illinois

From the FamilySearch web site. Includes address, telephone number and hours of operation.

FamilySearch Catalog

From the FamilySearch web site, an online catalog to the holdings of Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. Microfilm loans can be ordered and then sent to your local Family History Center.

Illinois Digital Archives

Illinois Library and Information Network (ILLINET)

A statewide library alliance, representing over 3,000 academic, public, school and special libraries that are members of Illinois' library systems (RAILS, IHLS and CPLS).

Illinois Mennonite Historical and Genealogy Society

Includes a research library and Heritage Center located in Metamora, Illinois. The library collection began with the organizational meeting of IMHGS in 1969. Anabaptist history, records and stories from Mennonite and Amish families, congregations, and community life are the focus of the collection. It now includes encyclopedias and historical works, periodicals, family, county and congregational histories; indexes to ship passenger lists, census and marriage records on microfilm and microfiche, lists on CD ROMs and files of clippings, correspondence, fliers, pamphlets, and unpublished notes, letters and diaries.

Illinois Rail Museum

Union.

Illinois State Archives

The Illinois State Archives serves by law as the depository of public records of Illinois state and local governmental agencies which possess permanent administrative, legal, or historical research values. Its collections do not include manuscript, newspaper, or other nonofficial sources.

Illinois State Historical Library

Illinois State Library

Illinois State Museum

Index of Repositories in the St. Louis Area

Missouri. From the Association of St. Louis Area Archivists. Links to repostitories, contact information, and description of holdings.

LibDex - The Library Index - Illinois

A worldwide directory of links to library homepages and web-based OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs).

Library of Congress - Search results for Illinois