Genealogy

A great book for local research is now available online, all 842 pages!  See the link in the right hand column under genealogy for Portrait and Biographical Record of Ford County, Illinois, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and the Presidents of the United States.  Seriously, that's the title!  It was published in Chicago in 1892.