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Chicago & Illinois Midland Railfan Pages

Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy

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. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

History of the Great Lakes States

View or download digital historical and genealogical materials online, free. Books, magazines, newspapers, court records, documents, maps, archives, etc. for Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan & Wisconsin.

Illinois History Pages

Illinois History Timeline

IllinoisHistory.com

RiverWeb - Harvesting the River - Illinois State Museum

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