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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.

African-American Cultural & Genealogical Society Of Illinois, Inc. Museum

American Theological Library Association

Chicago.

Augustana College - Thomas Tredway Library

Rock Island, Illinois.

Chicago Maritime Museum

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.

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.

F. M. Johnson Archives and Special Collection

From North Park University. This collection exists for the sole purpose of preserving and making available to researchers the historical records of the Evangelical Covenant Church. Founded in 1885 by Swedish immigrants, the Covenant values its rich heritage of churches, pastors, and lay people who have given the denomination its identity and who have carried out its mission. The collection includes books and serials, microfilmed newspapers and church records, files of local churches, pastors, missionaries, educators, and administrators.

FamilySearch - FamilySearch 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.

Historical Collections of the Great Lakes

The Historical Collections of the Great Lakes collects, preserves, and makes available historical materials documenting the Great Lakes region and connecting waterways. From Bowling Green State University.

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

LibDex - The Library Index - Illinois

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