Illinois Genealogy Resources
Chicago and Cook County
History and General Information
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in Seven Letters by Men and Women Who Experienced Its Horrors.
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A
Brief History of Chicago. ChicagoRelo.com
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Cleveland, 1967. Photographic essay.
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Burnham Park Timeline.
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Our City - Chicago. New York, 1930.
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Chicago, 1874.
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Chicago and Cook County History From the 1876 Warner &
Beers Atlas.
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The Chicago Fire. Making of America.
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Chicago History Links. From Kathy Kahn's Ancestors.
- Chicago Tribune. Chicago Days: 150 Defining Moments in
the Life of a Great City. Chicago: Catigny First
Division Foundation, 1997.
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Years Ago and As It Is Today. Chicago, 1883.
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Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1999.
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Chicago, 1882.
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Great Conflagration. Chicago, 1871.
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Combined Master Index: An Index to Four Histories of the Skokie,
Illinois Area. Skokie Historical Society.
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of the "Garden City of the Sixties." Chicago: A.C. McClung &
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Cook County. From Wikipedia.
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Cook County. From Encyclopedia of Chicago.
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County, Illinois History. Ancestry.com subscription
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County, Illinois: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time.
Chicago, IL, USA: A. T. Andreas, 1884.
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Cook County, Illinois History and Biography. Ancestry.com
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Daniel D. Healy, ed.. History of Illinois - Being a
General Survey of Cook County History, Including a Condensed
History of Chicago and Special Account of Districts Outside the
City Limits; from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time.
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Cook County Public Records.
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Cook County Storms. NCDC Storm Events.
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Elements in the Life of Chicago. Chicago, 1941.
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McGraw-Hill, 1958.
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Francisco, California: Lexikos, 1984.
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Great West. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1992.
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Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1981.
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A Century of Marvelous Growth. Chicago, 1912.
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Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 1976.
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Mid-Continent. 4th edition. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern
Illinois University Press, 2006.
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Deaths, Disturbances, Disasters and Disorders in Chicago
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House, 1953.
- De Young, Robert W., compiler and Janice Helge, editor.
The Greater Roseland Area of Chicago: Van Vlissingen School
1893-1999. South Suburban Genealogical and Historical
Society, 2005.
- Duis, Perry. Chicago: Creating New Traditions.
Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1976.
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Early Chicago A Compendium of the Early History of Chicago
to the Year 1835,
when the Indians left.
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Early History of the Forest Preserve District of Cook
County, 1869-1922
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Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago. Thousands of historical
resources, including articles, photos, maps, broadsides and
newspapers related to Chicago's history.
- Farr, Finis. Chicago: A Personal History of America's
Most American City. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House,
1973.
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Documentary History, 1784-1970. Dobbs Ferry, New York:
Oceana Publications, Inc., 1974.
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Chicago: F. H. Revell Co., 1902.
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Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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Chicago: Its Men and Institutions. Chicago, 1905.
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Makers. Chicago, 1929.
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Great Chicago Fire and The Web of Memory. Chicago Historical
Society.
- Hamilton, Henry R. The Epic of Chicago. Chicago,
1932.
- Harper, William H., editor. Chicago: A History and
Forecast. Chicago, 1921.
- Hayner, Don and Tom McNamee. Metro Chicago Almanac:
Fascinating Facts and Offbeat Offerings About the Windy City.
Chicago: Chicago Sun-Times, Inc., 1991.
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of Chicago From Trading Post to Metropolis. Roosevelt
University.
- Hoffman, Charles Fenno. A Winter in the West: Letters
Descriptive of Chicago and Vicinity in 1833-34. Chicago,
1882.
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Homicide in Chicago: 1870-1930
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1881.
- Illustrated History of Chicago. Chicago: Chicago
Herald, 1887.
- Jewell, Frank. Annotated Bibliography of Chicago History.
Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1979.
- Johnson, Charles B. Growth of Cook County. 2 volumes.
Chicago: Board of Commissioners of Cook County, Illinois, 1960.
- Keating, Ann Durkin. Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the
Railroad Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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Chicago: Dibble Publishing Co., 1892-1894.
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History. New York: Bonanza Books, 1958.
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Its Reputation. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1929.
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David McKay Co., 1973.
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DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006.
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Chicago, 1890.
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1955.
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a Metropolis. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,
1969. Includes 1,000 photographs and fifty maps.
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Chicago: An Interesting, Entertaining and Instructive Sketch
History of the Wonderful City "By the Sea." Chicago, 1890.
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Civil War. New York: Citadel, 1967.
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Chicago and the Making of America. New York: Simon &
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2 volumes. Chicago, 1895.
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Panic of 1837.
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Impressions of Visitors 1673-1933. Chicago: The University
of Chicago Press, 2004.
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volumes. New York: Knopf, 1957, 1940, 1937.
- Quaife, Milo M. Checagou: From Indian Wigwam to Modern
City, 1673-1835. Chicago, 1935.
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A Study of the Evolution of the Northwestern Frontier, together
with a History of Fort Dearborn. Chicago, 1913.
- Reed, Christopher Robert. Black Chicago's First Century,
Volume 1, 1833-1900. Columbia, Missouri: University of
Missouri Press, 2005.
- Riley, Thomas James. The Higher Life of Chicago.
Chicago, 1905.
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1893.
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Philadelphia, 1920.
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Handbook. Urbana, Illinois: 1976.
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Chicago, 1933.
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the City, 1871-1919. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2005.
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Chicago. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000.
- Vandenberg, Kirk. An Index to the First Hundred Years,
1835-1935: Historical Review of Blue Island, Illinois. South
Holland, Illinois: South Suburban Genealogical and Historical
Society, 2000. The First Hundred Years was written and
compiled by John H. Volp.
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County and Selected Bibliography. 3 volumes. Chicago: The
Lewis Publishing Co., 1908.
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WWW-VL: History: USA: Chicago
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Columbian Exposition of 1893. Paul V. Galvin Library
Digital History Collection.
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Illinois, Chicago & Its Environs. Chicago, 1937.