This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Provincial notes from Illinois towns and events
A wide survey of local happenings includes hotel patronage at Starved Rock, La Salle County teaching staff numbers, suffrage meeting plans in Kewanee, livestock and exotic animal reports, snake and pearl discoveries along waterways, a Wenona resident’s California winter plan, and various community actions from gravel walks in Chatsworth to credit policy proposals in LaHarpe. Also noted are medical and obituaries, state fair corn exhibits, and a horse and carny of regional interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Starved Rock
la Salle County
State Suffrage Association
Kewanee
Burgess Bros
Europe
George Ryan
Bradford
Peoria
Marshall County
Charles Fosbender
Wenona
California
Walnut
Bureau County
Berrying
Howard Williams
Rock River
Putnam Beckwith
Chicago
Basco
John Gull
Henry
Amana Foster
Madison Street
Ottawa
Republican
Comstock, Avery & Co
Illinois
Gore
Andrew Keefer
Princeton
Keefer
Waterloo
Napoleon
Charley
Los Angeles
Cal
Anna Manock
la Moille
Wendell
Peru
Illinoia
W. H Garrard
Springfield