Cook County, Illinois
Links to Online Data
Cook County, Illinois
Links to Online Data
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Link Categories
(Sites with online data)
Please Email me if a link doesn't work
Click on a category to see what links to online data are availableGeneral Cook County Links
("How-to" sites, Maps, etc)
Al Capone - A nice history presented by the Chicago Historical Society - with mug shots!
Al
Capone - 29 chapters of nothing but Al - presented by Court TV's Crime Library
Illinois Biographies Project: Cook County Album of Genealogy and Biography, Cook County, Illinois with Portraits 3rd ed. revised
and extended (Chicago: Calumet Book & Engraving Co., 1895)
Chicago
Cemetery Photos - Search by surname or by cemetery. All photos (very graphic-intensive)
Graveyards of Chicago
Haunted Chicago - The Ghosts & Haunted Places of the Windy City.
[I hesitated to add this link, but often these types of websites mention the history of the place in question,
often naming individuals - ghostly or otherwise]
Roster of the Four Hundred
and Five Ex-Confederate Soldiers whose remains were buried in Oakwood Cemetery
at Chicago, IL
1870 Census of the Orphanage in Lakeview
1880 Census for Chicago Protestant Orphan Asylum for Homeless Children
1880 Census for St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum in Chicago
1900 Census Info for
Chicago Nursery & Half Orphans' Asylum, North Town, Chicago, Cook County
Chicago Orphan Asylum, Cook County
Children's Temple Home, North Town, Cook County
Englewood Infant Nursery, Lakewood Twp., Cook County
Epworth Children's Home, Cook County
Foundlings Home, West Town, Chicago, Cook County
Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home, Cook County
Norwegian Lutheran Children's Home, Cook County
Orphan Asylum, Auburn Park, Cook County
St. Anthony's Hospital & Orphanage, West Town, Cook County
St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, Southtown, Chicago, Cook County
St. Mary's Home for Children, West Town, Cook County
St. Mary's Mission House (Episcopal), West Town, Cook County
St. Vincent's Infant Asylum, Cook County
St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum & St. Joseph's Home (old folks home), Cook County
Uhlich's Orphan Asylum, North Town, Cook County
1900 Census of the Chicago Home for Jewish Orphans, 34th Ward, Chicago, Hyde Park Township
Cook County, Illinois, A.D. 1900
1920 Chicago Census for the unnamed orphanage in Morgan Park on Prospect Ave, Chicago
Chicago-Specific Historical Links
1893 World's Columbian Exposition - held in Chicago
1897 Faculty of Rush
Medical College, Chicago, Illinois A Century of Progress - 1933-1934 - Chicago's World Fair
Chicago Black Sox - 1919 World Series Scandal
Chicago Genealogy - at the Newberry Library
Chicagology - This website
is broken down by eras of Chicago history: Early Chicago, The Great Fire, The Golden Age, The Columbian Exposition,
Sears. Lots of pictures if you have the patience to wait for them! The site is super slow to load.
Chicago State Hospital - Pictures from 1902-1933. Courtesy of the Chicago
Daily News
The Chicago Fire - presented by the Chicago Historical Society
Chicago Jewish Marriages
from the Sinai Congregation in Chicago - This is a database of information
on 526 marriages, contained in two small books with handwritten notations attributed to Rabbi Bernhard Felsenthal.
Title: Marriage records, Sinai Congregation, Chicago, IL, records entered from 1861-1905. Compiled by Fran Loeb
Luebke
Chicago Jewish Obituary
Database - This is a database of over 8,800 obituary notices presented by
the Jewish Gen organization for the Chicago, Illinois area, compiled by Richard Hoffman and covering December 1994
through September 1998
Pointers in Person - Chicago Chapter of POINT (Pursuing Our Italian Names Together). A list of all Chicago churches,
with addresses and links to the corresponding records in the FHL catalog can be found here, along with other info.
Marriage Index for Polish Parishes
in Chicago through 1915 - Presented by The Polish Genealogical Society of
America. This is just the index which contains names of both spouses, the date of the marriage, the parish location
and town where the marriage took place and citation data (volume, page, etc...). Once you find your folks in this
index, you can order the microfilm containing the actual record through your local LDS.
View the other databases the Polish Genealogical Society of America has online
-- None at the moment --
[If a site is selling something, we prefer not to link to it]
Early Cook County Roads (pg. 1 and pg. 2) presented by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County
Chicago Street
Name Changes - Compiled by Daniel E. Niemiec or Read the Chicago Historical Society's 1948 version (.pdf file - long
download time)
Cook County
Assessor's Office - Plug in an address, get a picture of the house. See where your
ancestors actually lived (as long as the house is still standing). Churches, and other institutions who do not
pay taxes, are not included.
Clerk of the Circuit Court - Archives Department - Explanation of what they have from when. Count
on everything prior to the Chicago Fire being destroyed. Their "Holdings" page is here. These 2 pages work, but some of the other links don't - click
on them, go to the page, then get whisked away to another page before you can finish reading. Maybe they'll iron
out the website kinks....
The South Suburban Genealogical and Historical Society covers the townships of Bloom, Bremen, Calumet, Lemont, Orland, Palos, Rich, Thornton, and Worth
in the southern part of Cook County, Illinois, as well as the Roseland and Pullman neighborhoods of the city of
Chicago. They now have a catalog search engine
Northwest Suburban Council of Genealogists - focus on history and genealogy in Mount Prospect, Arlington Heights and surrounding suburbs
Newberry Library
Obtaining Masonic records - Illinois Masonic records can be obtained by writing to:
Office of Grand Secretary
PO Box 4147
Springfield, Il 62708
Phone: 217-529-8900, 8:30 am until 4:00 pm weekdays.
Their e-mail address is: grsecy@afam-il.org
They will do genealogy research as time permits. Send as much information, lodge, year, etc. as possible.
"Vital Records from Chicago Newspapers 1833 - 1848" - presented by the Chicago Genealogical Society Photographs from the Chicago Daily
News, 1902-1933. Presented by the Chicago Historical Society. Click here for the index to the pictures available, arranged
by subject
ChurchAngel.com - Find the churches within an individual town/city
Archdiocese of Chicago's Joseph Cardinal
Bernardin Archives & Records Center.
711 West Monroe
Chicago, IL 60661
Phone: (312) 831- 0711
Fax: (312) 831- 0610
Vice chancellor E-mail: JTreanor@chgocatholicarchives.org
Genealogical Information Guide: "The Archdiocese of Chicago's Archives & Records Center welcomes genealogical
researchers. However, genealogical research is confined to records prior to December 31, 1915, unless searching
for his/her own records. In addition, Pre-1916 records are available for research on microfilm. For records from
still existing parishes, please contact the parish, since these records remain with that church. The archives holds
only records of parishes which have closed, and the earliest books of Old St. Mary's and St. Elizabeth's. A complete
list of these is available upon request."
Names &
Addresses of Chicago Churches - presented by POINTERS IN PERSON
Lutheran Churches
of Chicago - gives the history of the various Lutheran churches and tells
where their records are archived.
Parker High School
Class of 1922 Pictures - Courtesy of DeadFred.com
Proviso
East High School's Bataan WWII Commerative Research Project
Illinois
Archives Databases - Marriages
and Deaths
Online Chicago
& Cook County, Illinois Death Records & Indexes
And well, you can't really have a links page and then not include the biggest genealogy
link site there is Cyndislist.com
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