Hi! Does anyone know how I can track some business in Chicago in the early 1900s? I'm researching for a friend whose father worked for John Colby & Sons (furniture makers or upholsters) in Chicago in 1917 and by the 1940s had his own reupholstery business in Chicago. Anywhere I can search to find this kind of information? Any kind of Cook County records that are available to search for licenses and such? Thank you. Marilyn

City directories? They're good until 1929. Old newspapers? Old phonebooks? Molly has access to them at the Lincoln Presidential Library. www.mollx.com Lila Marilyn Krzus wrote: > Does anyone know how I can track some business in Chicago in the early > 1900s? > > > > I'm researching for a friend whose father worked for John Colby & Sons > (furniture makers or upholsters) in Chicago in 1917 and by the 1940s had his > own reupholstery business in Chicago. > > > > Anywhere I can search to find this kind of information? Any kind of Cook > County records that are available to search for licenses and such? > > > > Thank you. > > > > Marilyn > > > > ==== IL-COOK-CHICAGO Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from Digest: Send a message to > [email protected] > that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.6/151 - Release Date: 10/28/05