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!
Belleville jail and St Clair inmates in 1890s counties
Sorenzo mumps outbreak in area. St Clair county farm houses 165 inmates. Belleville jail holds 65 inmates with six women. Staunton union talks. Pontiac bank to open with 380000 capital. Belleville public schools total 2562 pupils. Mur physaboro waterworks tower toppled. Belleville painter Christian Hubn dies by self-inflicted gunshot. Smithboro Coal sold to Joseph Somers of Brazil Indiana. Seiter Dairy near Lebanon to move to Trenton. Chicago counts 4500 saloons. 1898 saw 100 businesses cease due to patronage loss. A Washington county man loses 118 shipping quail to St Louis markets. Breese vigilant committee aims to curb tramp nuisance. Trenton sanitary improvements project. Toulin and Marion fires destroy blocks of business. Mt Olive Staunton coal Co worker killed in mine accident. Peoria to run rubber-tired buses carrying 20 each against streetcars. Centralia near Minnois Central shops boosts local economy. G B Foyle of Peoria arrested in Davenport on seven wives charge. Carlyle State Bank narrowly escapes looting. Rev Thos Dulaney Bluford Baptist dies after throat slit. Carlinville clerk’s office fire destroys records. replacement costly. Champaign resident leaves ten acres for infirm women home. funds endowment. Chester man advertises for wife under assumed name. sister answers. W D Tolle Belleville embezzler pleads guilty. sentenced to Cheater prison.