Advice

• Advice for Researching Church Records
• Film Numbers for Illinois Genealogy Research

Genealogy Societies

• Afro-American Genealogical & Historical Society of Chicago
• South Suburban Genealogical and Historical Society
• Chicago Genealogy Society -3 offers online Vital Records from Chicago Newspapers

Archives/Libraries/Museums

• Chicago Public Library: Genealogy
• Cook County Clerk: Genealogy Online - order and download birth, marriage and death certificates
• Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court: Records and Archives
• Evanston History Center - located in the home of former Vice-President Charles G. Dawes
• Newberry Library
• Chicago History Museum
• Glenview Public Library - offers genealogy database searches
• Wilmette Historical Museum online genealogical databases