Resources For Illinois

CARLI Digital Collections was established in 2006 as a repository for digital content created by member libraries of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) or purchased by the consortium for use by its members. CARLI Digital Collections uses the CONTENTdm digital asset management tool to describe and deliver digital representations of myriad special collections including printed and manuscript materials, images, and sound recordings. It also guarantees researchers access to cross-institution and cross-collection searches integrating previously disparate and possibly remote special collections. -- copied from publisher's site (Full text) Service = Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI)

The place to discover the history and culture of Chicago. -- copied from publisher's site (Multimedia) Service = Chicago Collections Consortium

(1860-2015) This database includes full page and article images with searchable full text for all issues of the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago Press & tribune, and Chicago Tribune from 1860 through 2015. Newer content is added periodically by the database publisher. Note: Benner Library has a current print subscription and retains three months. (Full text) Service = ProQuest

IRIS Database Listings and Descriptions A to Z (Includes direct links to the available databases.) -- copied from publisher's site (Full text) Service = State of Illinois

Available databases specific to and provided by the state of Illinois. (Full text) Service = State of Illinois

The Illinois Digital Heritage Hub (IDHH) is a statewide initiative to bring together unique digital assets about Illinois and created by Illinois institutions. The digital Exhibits here are curated from our collections that are immense in volume and rich in historical detail, including photographs, manuscripts, books, audio recordings, and videos. (Full text) Service = State of Illinois

...state and local government records that have permanent administrative, legal, or historical value.. -- copied from publisher's site (Full text) Service = State of Illinois

The Digital Archive is hosted by Olivet Nazarene University's Benner Library on its Institutional Repository on JSTOR.org/sites/olivetnazareneuniversity. Copyright clearance covers July 1854 through one year before the current date, though only the years 1854-2023 have been digitized from microfilm. Kankakee Public Library, Benner Library (ONU), and Miner Memorial Library (KCC) are manually compiling these files into complete issues as time permits. Post-2023 issues are being added as circumstances allow. (There are some missing issues that are being periodically added.) (Full text) Service = JSTOR

We're sorry, as of May 21, 2017, CARLI is no longer able to provide off-campus authentication to the images in the Saskia Art Images and Sanborn Maps of Illinois (1867-1970) digital collections.

Access to these materials is available on-campus at CARLI Governing member institutions, or through their campus VPN or other IP proxy services offered by those institutions or libraries.

Sanborn maps are large-scale plans of a city or town, drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. They were created to assist fire insurance companies as they assessed the risk associated with insuring a particular property. They list street blocks and building numbers - numbers in use at the time the map was made as well as previous historical numbers. (Multimedia) Service = Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI)

Digitized materials from Olivet Nazarene University. (Full text) Service = JSTOR

Online access to the Chicago Tribune-current paper (Full text) Service = Chicago Tribune

Current newspaper for Kankakee County. This link will take you to a pdf with ONU access information. Here is the link to go directly to the Daily Journal: https://www.daily-journal.com/e-edition/. (Full text) Service = Daily Journal

This is a digitized collection of many volumes of the Laws of Illinois. (Full text) Service = Western Illinois University