The Partnership is a diverse, bi-state partnership of environmental, cultural and historical organizations and individuals, libraries, educational institutions, municipalities, and governmental agencies. Each partner is committed to celebrating, preservin
Through the early 19th to mid-20th century, coal mining was the industrial engine of downstate Illinois. Workers organized under the banner of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) to win safe working conditions and better pay.
This event is held in anticipation of the 2008-2009 CAS Initiative on Immigration - History and Policy which will bring together scholars in the social sciences, law, computer science, engineering and humanities to explore new approaches to immigration an
This is a list of other Genealogical Societies in Illinois with sites currently accessable via the World Wide Web. If you do not find your county of interest listed, they probably haven't placed a site online yet.
This history of the City of Kewanee, Henry County, Illinois was originally published in the "Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County Illinois," written in 1885 and published by The Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago. Copies provided by Lin
Welcome to the Lewis University Illinois and Michigan Canal World Wide Web Home Page. This photograph collection is the largest existing pictorial record of the history of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. No other museum or library has these photographs.