CHICAGO and COOK COUNTY GENEALOGY

• CEMETERIES
  Acacia Park Cemetery
  Bohemian National Cemetery
  Catholic Cemeteries at the Archdiocese of Chicago
  Cook County Cemeteries (Internment.net)
  Cook County Cemeteries (ISGS Cemetery Location Project)
  Graveyards of Chicago
  Mount Hope Cemetery
  Mount Olive Cemetery
  Register of Confederate soldiers who died in Camp Douglas, 1862-65 and lie buried in Oakwoods Cemetery
  Rosehill Cemetery
  Walter Haertel Monument Records, 1903 to 1923
  Wunders Cemetery, Chicago - a CGS publication (and an Ancestry.com $ database)
  
• CENSUS
  A Look At Cook County
• CHURCHES
  Ada St. M.E. Church of Chicago: 1877 directory
  Archdiocese of Chicago
  Catholic Churches in Chicago
  Chicago Church and Synagogue Records
  Chicago Parish Histories collection at the University of Notre Dame
  Church of the Epiphany, Ashland Boulevard and Adams Street: Parish history and year book (1897)
  Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Archives
  First Congregational Church of Chicago: directory of members in 1873
  First Immanuel Lutheran Church Chicago Confirmations 1855-1865
  First Immanuel Lutheran Church Chicago Marriages Miscellaneous 1854-1869
  First Presbyterian Church 1833-1913 (only 1894-1913 is transcribed here)
  First St. Paul Lutheran Church Records 1301 N. LaSalle Chicago
  German Lutheran Churches of Chicago
  Hyde Park Presbyterian Church, 1860-1910: Fiftieth anniversary celebration
  Lutheran Churches of Chicago
  Marriage Index for Polish Parishes in Chicago through 1915
  New England Church, Chicago: directory of the congregation, 1891
  St. Charles Borromeo Church : Twelfth and Cypress Streets, Chicago: silver jubilee celebration, 1885-1910
  St. John Cantius Church, Birth Index, 1893-1895
  St. Michael's Catholic Church, Baptisms, 1870-1871- a German-speaking church on Cleveland Avenue
  St. Paul's Reformed Episcopal Church of Chicago: 1873 Directory
  
• CITY DIRECTORIES and STREET GUIDES
  1843
  1844
  1855/56
  1866
  1870
  1871 Edward's Census
  1873 Strangers' guide to the city of Chicago
  1875
  1880
  1885
  Town of Lake, 1885
  1892
  1900
  1910
  1923
  1928/29
  
• COUNTY GOVERNMENT OFFICES
  Chicago City Council Proceedings Files Index, 1833-1871
  Chicago City Council Proceedings
  Explore this collection of early petitions, ordinances, communications and other official records from 1827-1933 to discover how police and fire protection, public works, schools and taxation originated in Chicago. Find out about the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal beginning in 1827, the incorporation of Chicago as a town in 1833, and the Great Fire of 1871 and its aftermath.
  Cook County Assessor's Office
  Search properties in by address, neighborhood, or PIN number. Besides property value information, site also provides age of building, and photos.
  Cook County Clerk's Office
  Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court
  Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court. Archives Department (Phil Costello)
  Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court. Naturalizations Declarations of Intent
  - for more information about this digitized collection click here
  Cook County Recorder of Deeds
  Search properties by grantor/grantee, document number, PIN, trust number, find legal description.
• HISTORY
  Chicago in 1919
  Explore such topics as the 1919 race riot, new roles for women, the increasing uses of electricity, trends in the arts, labor organizing, business developments, and more. This unique multimedia history program makes you the historian as you sift through documents and photographs, listen to oral histories, and enjoy the top jazz, opera, and pop tunes of the day.
  Chicago Park District : history, background, organization (1936)
  Cook County IL Biographies
  Cook County IL Biographies
  Deaths, Disturbances, Disasters and Disorders in Chicago
  Cholera and influenza epidemics, Iroquois Theater and stock yards fires, Pullman strike, beer riots, etc.
  Digital Past - images of Chicago and suburbs
  Encyclopedia of Chicago
  Great Chicago Fire 1871 : list of missing, lost, found, and dead
  Old Chicago: history and architecture in vintage postcards
  World's Columbian Exposition of 1893
  World's Fair 1933-34 : A Century of Progress.
  Explore the theme of the fair, scientific discoveries and their impact on industry and daily life, by viewing 350 pamphlets and official publications of the fair from the University of Chicago Library's collection.
  
• MAPS
  Chicagoancestors.org. "Discover the past by address." An interactive online map of Chicago.
  Chicago Imagebase (Maps)
  Chicago Landmarks (Maps)
  Genealogy Research Locations - an interactive map project at the Newberry Library of genealogy research locations in Chicagoland
  Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
  Index of various Chicago maps
  Sanborn Maps for Illinois. These historical fire insurance maps of Illinois often include detailed drawings of the businesses, and occasionally details about operational hours or numbers of employees. For additional information about Sanborn maps, click here.
  State maps
  Topographical maps
• MISCELLANEOUS
  Chicago Biography and Industry File
  Chicago club yearbooks
  Chicago Genealogy Research Articles by Michael John Neill
  Chicago Institutions (mainly hospitals, medical colleges) from the "Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois" ©1901
  Chicago Orphan Asylum - Fifty-ninth Annual Report of The Chicago Orphan Asylum, For the Year Ending 1 Dec 1908. Incorporated November 5, 1849. 5120 South Park Avenue, Chicago. Telephone 520 Oakland. Published 1909.
  Civil War Pension Index Cards
  - for more information about this digitized collection click here
  Cook County, Illinois GenWeb Page
  Family Search Research Wiki - Cook County, Illinois
  Linkpendium Cook County Genealogy and Family History
  
• NEIGHBORHOODS
  Chicago's neighborhoods- this guide lists books, articles and maps in the Newberry Library
  Chicago: City of Neighborhoods
  Dominic Pacyga and Ellen Skerrett explore the neighborhoods and communities (The Loop; Lower West Side; Grand Boulevard - Washington Park; South Lakefront) that make Chicago one of the most diverse cities in the country.
  Andersonville
  Austin
  Beverly Hills
  Bridgeport
  Bronzeville
  Chatham-Grand Crossing
  Chicago Loop
  East Side
  Edgewater Historical Soc.
  Edison Park
  Englewood
  Englewood: Dorothy's 1945 Daily Diary
  Hegewisch
  Humboldt Park
  Hyde Park
  Hyde Park Historical Soc.
  Hyde Park, 1856-1910
  Lawndale-Crawford ("Mud Lake area")
  Lower West Side (Pilsen)
  Maxwell Street Market
  Morgan Park
  Near West Side
  North Lawndale
  North Lawndale
  Pullman
  Riverview Park
  Rogers Park-West Ridge Historical Soc.
  South Chicago
  South Deering
  South Lawndale
  South Shore
  Southeast Side
  West Garfield Park
  West (Near West) Side
  West Town
  Woodlawn
  
• NEWSPAPERS and JOURNALS
  Chicago Daily News, Photographs 1902-1933
  Daily Herald Index 1901-1956
  Death notices in Dziennik Chicagoski (a Polish-language newspaper)
  - 1890-1920
  - 1930-1971
  Hyde Park Herald (1888-2008 when completely digitzed)
  List of articles about Cook County in ISGS quarterly
  West Side Newspaper Collection
  
• REAL ESTATE / PROPERTY
  Chicago Building Permits, 1898-1912
  Chicago Street Address Conversion Guide
  - In 1909, Chicago changed its street-numbering system for most of the city. Use this address conversion guide to find a building’s original address.
  Chicago Street Name changes
  
• SCHOOLS
  Chicago Public Schools graduation and attendee’s records : also find alumni, and more!
  Chicago School Records : information, and what's at the Newberry Library
  Chicago schools : fact sheets, commencement programs, etc. (see boxes 35-37)
  
• VITAL RECORDS
  Chicago and Cook County Online Death Records and Indexes
  Chicago Police Department Homicide Record Index, 1870-1930 (by Illinois State Archives)
  Chicago Police Department Homicide Record Index, 1870-1930 (by Northwestern Univ.)
  - search 11,000 Chicago homicide cases and view the case details
  Cook County Birth Certificates 1878-1922 (Familysearch.org pilot)
  Cook County Birth Index, 1916-1935 (Ancestry.com)
  Cook County Birth Registers 1871-1915 (Familysearch.org pilot)
  Cook County Clerk's Office. Search for B, M, D
  Cook County Coroner's Inquest Record Index, 1872-1911
  Cook County Death Index 1908-1988 (Ancestry.com)
  Cook County Marriage Index 1930-1960 (Ancestry.com)
  Cook County Marriages 1871-1920 (Familysearch.org pilot)
  Illinois Statewide Death Index, Pre-1916
  Illinois Statewide Death Index, 1916-1950
  Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900
  Social Security Death Index
  

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