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• Life and Services of Colonel James J. Healy (1913), by C. C. Bowsfield (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A True Picture of Emigration, or, Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America (London: G. Berger, ca. 1848), by Rebecca Burlend and Edward Burlend (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Italians in Chicago: A Study in Americanization (Chicago: Italian American Pub Co., 1928), by Giovanni Ermenegildo Schiavo, contrib. by Jane Addams, illust. by Rocco D. Navigato (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Babe: Child of Boom and Bust in Old Chicago, Umbilicus Mundi, by Alfred De Grazia (HTML at grazian-archive.com)
• Chicago: The Book of its Board of Trade and Other Public Bodies (1900), by George W. Engelhardt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mormon Midwife: The 1846-1888 Diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1997), by Patty Bartlett Sessions, ed. by Donna Toland Smart (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Book for the People! To Be Read by All Voters, Black and White, with Thrilling Events of the Life of Norvel Blair, of Grundy County, State of Illinois (Joliet, IL: Joliet Daily Record, 1880), by Norvel Blair (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Book for the People! To Be Read by All Voters, Black and White, with Thrilling Events of the Life of Norvel Blair, of Grundy County, State of Illinois (Joliet, IL: Joliet Daily Record, 1880), by Norvel Blair (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Book for the People! To Be Read by All Voters, Black and White, with Thrilling Events of the Life of Norvel Blair, of Grundy County, State of Illinois (Joliet, IL: Joliet Daily Record, 1880), by Norvel Blair (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Sixty Years in Chicago: Autobiography of August Lueders (Chicago: Printed by F. Klein Co., 1929), by August Lueders
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Petticoat Surgeon (reprint edition; New York: Arno Press, 1980), by Bertha Van Hoosen (page images with commentary at loc.gov)

• Sketches: Judiciary Candidates (1903), by Republican Party (Cook County, Ill.) Campaign Committee
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Petticoat Surgeon (reprint edition; New York: Arno Press, 1980), by Bertha Van Hoosen (page images with commentary at loc.gov)

• Walter Patton Murphy, 1873-1942: A Biography (c1952), by Walter Dill Scott (page images at HathiTrust)

• A True Picture of Emigration, or, Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America (London: G. Berger, ca. 1848), by Rebecca Burlend and Edward Burlend (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A True Picture of Emigration, or, Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America (London: G. Berger, ca. 1848), by Rebecca Burlend and Edward Burlend (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Petticoat Surgeon (reprint edition; New York: Arno Press, 1980), by Bertha Van Hoosen (page images with commentary at loc.gov)

• Petticoat Surgeon (reprint edition; New York: Arno Press, 1980), by Bertha Van Hoosen (page images with commentary at loc.gov)

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• Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Illinois (1869), by Illinois (page images at MOA)

• John Francis Snyder: Selected Writings (Springfield, IL: Illinois State Historical Society, 1962), by John Francis Snyder, ed. by Clyde C. Walton, contrib. by Phyllis Connolly and Melvin L. Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Illinois As It Is, by Frederick Gerhard (page images at MOA)
• Summer Rambles in the West (New York: J. C. Riker, 1853), by E. F. Ellet (page images at MOA)
• A True Picture of Emigration, or, Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America (London: G. Berger, ca. 1848), by Rebecca Burlend and Edward Burlend (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wau-Bun, The Early Day in the Northwest, by Mrs. John H. Kinzie (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• When Wilderness Was King: A Tale of the Illinois Country, by Randall Parrish (Gutenberg text)
• Spanish Peggy: A Story of Young Illinois (New York: Herbert S. Stone and Co, 1899), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood (multiple formats at Indiana)

• John Francis Snyder: Selected Writings (Springfield, IL: Illinois State Historical Society, 1962), by John Francis Snyder, ed. by Clyde C. Walton, contrib. by Phyllis Connolly and Melvin L. Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illinois As It Is, by Frederick Gerhard (page images at MOA)

• Record of the Services of Illinois Soldiers in the Black Hawk War, 1831-32, and in the Mexican war, 1846-8 (Springfield, IL: H. W. Rokker, state printer, 1882), by Illinois Military and Naval Department, contrib. by Isaac H. Elliott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Illinois Party Platforms, 1914, With Select Bibliographies of Available Material on File in the Legislative Reference Bureau, Relating to the Subjects Enumerated Therein (1914), by Illinois General Assembly Legislative Reference Bureau (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1998), by Wanda A. Hendricks (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Illinois Blue Book (partial serial archives)

• Register of Confederate Soldiers Who Died in Camp Douglas, 1862-65 and Lie Buried in Oakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, Ills., 1892 (Cincinnati: Cohen and Co., 1892), by Ex-Confederate Association of Chicago
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn., With Reminiscences of Camp Douglas, by John M. Copley (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois: Being a Pictorial History of the Miracle of the Illinois Cantonment (Rockford, IL: Oscar F. Wilson Print. Co., 1917) (page images here at Penn)

• The Great Conflagration, Chicago: Its Past, Present and Future (Chicago and Philadelphia: Union Pub. Co., 1871), by James W. Sheahan and George P. Upton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Historic Waterways: Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1888), by Reuben Gold Thwaites (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Kankakee: River of History (ca. 1960), by Marion C. Isaacs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Indian Trails Centering at Black Hawk's Village (reprinted from the Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society, 2921), by John H. Hauberg
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Historic Waterways: Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1888), by Reuben Gold Thwaites (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The History of Negro Servitude in Illinois, and of the Slavery Agitation in That State, 1719-1864 (Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Co., 1904), by Norman Dwight Harris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Vidette (partial serial archives)

• Constitutional Convention, by Illinois General Assembly Legislative Reference Bureau (page images at MOA)
• Journal of the Convention, Assembled at Springfield, June 7, 1847, by Illinois (page images at Google)

• Journal of the Convention, Assembled at Springfield, June 7, 1847, by Illinois (page images at Google)

• Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Illinois (1869), by Illinois (page images at MOA)

• Golfers' Green Book, 1901: Containing Complete Details of the Golf Clubs Drawing Membership From Chicago, with a History of Golf Since Its Introduction to the West (Chicago: National Golf Bureau, c1901), ed. by Joseph E. G. Ryan (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Illinois Crime Survey (1929), by Illinois Association for Criminal Justice (PDF files with commentary at Northwestern)
• De Mau Mau: A Factual Account of Racism in the White Press (ca. 1973), by De Mau Mau Defense Fund (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Illinois Crime Survey (1929), by Illinois Association for Criminal Justice (PDF files with commentary at Northwestern)

• A Manual of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure for Police (1931), by Ernst W. Puttkammer (PDF files at Northwestern)

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