Discovering Family and Local History

              How do I contact a
depository?
IRAD—Booth Library
Eastern Illinois University
600 Lincoln Ave.
Charleston, IL 61920
(217) 581-6093
IRAD—Williams Hall
Illinois State University
Campus Box 5500
Normal, IL 61790-5500
(309) 452-6027
IRAD—Regional History Center
Founders Memorial Library
Room 400
DeKalb, IL 60115
(815) 753-1807
IRAD—LIB-144
University of Illinois at Springfield
P.O. Box 19243
Springfield, IL 62794-9243
(217) 206-6520
IRAD—c/o Special Collections
Morris Library-6632
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901
(618) 453-3040
IRAD—Ronald Williams Library
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 N. St. Louis Ave.
Chicago, IL 60625-4699
(773) 442-4506
IRAD—University Library
Western Illinois University
1 University Circle
Macomb, IL 61455-1390
(309) 298-2716
www.cyberdriveillinois.com
Discovering
Family and Local
History
Illinois Regional Archives
Depository System
JESSE WHITE
Secretary of State
and State Archivist
IRAD Resources
Several resources are available to assist
in your research:
Publications
• A Summary Guide to Local Gov-ernmental
Records in the Illinois
Regional Archives, second edi-tion
(1999), lists all county,
township and municipal
records, including those from
Chicago and Cook County.
Cost: $6.
• Chicago City Council Pro-ceedings
Files: 1833-1871:
An Inventory and an Index
is a 989-page inventory
accompanied by an index
containing 93 microfiche.
Cost: $35.
County listings
Computer listings of IRAD records ar-ranged
by county, office and record
title are free. Please limit requests to no
more than five counties at a time.
Web site resources
A database of IRAD holdings, indexes
to some county records and a guide to
IRAD service is available (www.
cyberdriveillinois.com).
Inquiries or orders for these research
aids should be sent to:
IRAD, Illinois State Archives
Norton Building
Springfield, IL 62756
(217) 785-1266
Printed by authority of the State of Illinois
July 2002 – 8M – GA-908
AR D-119.9
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