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Illinois -- Politics and government -- To 1865

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• Illinois -- Politics and government

• Junius and Joseph: Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), by Robert Sigfrid Wicks and Fred R. Foister
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Writings of Abraham Lincoln (national edition, 8 volumes; New York: Lamb Pub. Co., n.d.), by Abraham Lincoln, ed. by Arthur Brooks Lapsley, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt, Carl Schurz, Joseph Hodges Choate, Noah Brooks, and Stephen A. Douglas
  • Volume 1 (1832-1843): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (1843-1858): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (Lincoln-Douglas Debates I): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Lincoln-Douglas Debates II): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5 (1858-1862): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 6 (1862-1863): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 7 (1863-1865): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 8 (Life of Lincoln): multiple formats at archive.org
• The Writings of Abraham Lincoln (biographical eighth volume by Noah Brooks omitted), by Abraham Lincoln, ed. by Arthur Brooks Lapsley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 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)
• Complete works of Abraham Lincoln, (New York, Francis D. Tandy company, [c1905]), by Abraham Lincoln (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dunne, judge, mayor, governor, comp. and ed. (Chicago, The Windermere press, 1916), by Edward F. Dunne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty Years of Public Service: Personal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, Senior United States Senator from Illinois, by Shelby M. Cullom (Gutenberg ebook)

• British Policy in the Illinois Country, 1763-1768, by Clarence Edwin Carter (Gutenberg ebook)

• Journal of the House of Representatives, by Illinois House of Representatives (partial serial archives)
• Journal of the Senate, by Illinois Senate (partial serial archives)

• The New Majority (partial serial archives)

• Illinois Blue Book (partial serial archives)

• If Christ Came to Chicago! A Plea for the Union of All Who Love in the Service of All Who Suffer (Chicago: Laird and Lee, 1894), by W. T. Stead (PDF files with commentary at Northwestern)
• Dunne, judge, mayor, governor, comp. and ed. (Chicago, The Windermere press, 1916), by Edward F. Dunne (page images at HathiTrust)

• Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1988), by Ann Durkin Keating (PDF at Ohio State)

• Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1988), by Ann Durkin Keating (PDF at Ohio State)

• Letter of Hon. Thos. L. Harris, of Illinois, upon the repeal of the fugitive slave law. (Washington, Printed by J.T. Towers, 1851), by Thomas L. Harris (page images at HathiTrust)