On my recently published website http://www.poorhousestory.com -- which is a clearinghouse for information about 19th Century American Poorhouses -- I have featured ILLINOIS as a state where poorhouse history has been very well documented. You can see this at page http://www.getccs.com/phl/houses.htm and you can read what we have posted to the ILLINOIS page at http://www.getccs.com/phl/poorhouses_in_illinois.htm If any of you know of any ILLINOIS Poorhouse information which we have not listed, I would really appreciate hearing from you. Thanks, Linda