There are some free publications available from that state of Illinois that can be ordered on-line at http://www.sos.state.il.us/cgi-bin/special/puborder.s Check out the links for 'Archives and Records', 'Library and Literacy' and 'Miscellaneous' One of the publications is 63 page booklet on the 'Origin and Evolution of Illinois Counties' Also a 144 page catalog of the newspaper holdings at the State Historical Library. There are several other publications that may be of interest to a genealogist. All for free, dont even have to pay postage!

Several of those publications are available online. http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/services.html Cheryl Rothwell [email protected]