Cyndi's List - United States - Illinois

Chicago & Illinois Midland Railfan Pages
Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy
- Camps by State
  - Illinois
Coal Mining in Illinois
GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Illinois

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable.
- Assumption, IL Tornado, June 1907
- Geneseo, IL Tornado May 1860
  
  Details of who lost property.
- Kingston Mines, IL Tornado, Jun 1902
- Mattoon, IL Tornado, May 1917
  
  Article on the deadly 1917 tornado that killed 101 people.
- Merna, IL Tornado, Jun 1902
Illinois History

A Historical Overview of Illinois from Native American Inhabitants through World War II. Article by Rickie Lazzerini.
Illinois History Pages
Illinois History Timeline
IllinoisHistory.com
The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820

Consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West including Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky & West Virginia from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century.
The Illinois History Resource Page
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