Genealogy

U.S. and U.K. census records and indexes, the Social Security Death Index, World War I draft registration cards, Civil War service records, immigration records and many more sources for genealogical research.

Full text, including display and classified advertisements, of this nationally significant African American newspaper from 1910 to 2010. (To search for articles in this paper from 2011 to present, use Black Newspapers or Illinois Newsstand.)

Full text of the Chicago Tribune, including classified and display advertisements, from 1849 to 2015.

Search for ancestors in the U.S. Federal Census, family and local histories and city directories, Revolutionary War records, Freedman's Bank records, genealogical periodicals and selected congressional documents and reports from the American State Papers and U.S. Serial Set.

Full text of over 180 historical Illinois newspapers, including Chicago Daily News, The Inter Ocean, News Journal and The Daily Herald.

Several historic White and Yellow pages, including several from Chicago.