There is quite a bit of information in the Illinois Archives if you are hunting people before 1900. <A HREF="http://www.ilsos.net/departments/archives/databases.html">Illinois State Archives Databases</A> If you have access to Ancestory, the archive of the Pantagraph at Bloomington is in their database. I'm not sure of the years but I think the list covers somewhere around 1970 to present. If you are not a subscriber, send me the names and I'll look to see if I can find them. Joan