OnLine Databases
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America's Newspapers America's Newspapers offers full-text coverage for local, regional, and national newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, Sun Times, and The Herald News, as well as the Chicago Tribune Historical Archives. | 
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 | Ancestry.com
This genealogy databases gives you access to a wide variety of resources including: census records, military records, immigration records, and much more.
Please note: Because this is the Library Edition of this product, it is ONLY accessible from computers located IN the library. | No Home Access |
 | CultureGrams™
A leading reference for concise and reliable cultural information on the countries of the world. It provides country reports that go beyond mere facts and figures and delivers a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture, including the background, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people. It includes reports covering 200+ countries, all 50 United States, and the Canadian Provinces. | |
 | eLibrary Elementary
More than 130 magazines, newspapers, books, transcripts, maps, images, weblinks, and audio/video titles, all selected as appropriate for elementary school studies. Every magazine, journal, newspaper, book, and transcript is provided in 100 percent full-text. | |
 | FirstSearch
FirstSearch provides access to over 50 billion library records, magazine articles, proceedings, and more. Much of the information is full-text. | |
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Grolier Online
Includes Encyclopedia Americana (Ages 13+), Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (Ages 10+) and the New Book of Knowledge (Ages 8+), plus the renowned reference resources: Lands and Peoples and the New Book of Popular Science. | |
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HeritageQuest Online
HeritageQuest offers a unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. | |
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Learn-A-Test
Learn-A-Test offers you the chance to do practice tests on topics ranging from Citizenship to GRE to Postal Worker. Library patrons can simply enter their library card number, and then choose a password that they will remember. This will allow access from within the library or from home. | |
 | Literature Online Reference Edition (LION)
Literature Online Reference Edition (LION) is a database collection of author information and literary criticism. | |
 | NoveList
NoveList is an online resource which helps match
fiction readers with authors and titles of interest. The database contains
information on over 100,000 titles. If you need additional help finding fiction,
please see a librarian. | |
| | ProQuest
ProQuest is a collection of databases containing articles from magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. The library
subscribes to general full-text information databases that are appropriate for children, teens and adults.
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 | PubMed
Source for medical information including full-text articles from medical journals. No password/login necessary; available free from any computer with internet access.
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 | Record Information Services
Record Information Services is a public records database that covers Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, and Will counties. It covers new homeowners, new businesses, foreclosures and sales, and bankruptcies.
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 | ReferenceUSA
The ReferenceUSA database contains directory listings on more than 12 million businesses and 120 million households in the
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 | SIRS Researcher This general reference database contains thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. It is a great resource for students writing position papers. Articles can be printed or e-mailed. | |
 If you need assistance with your research, please speak to a staff member at the reference desk, or contact the library at 815-485-2605 during regular library hours or e-mail us.
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