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Maps
Township Map
Chicago Neighborhoods
1933 Cemetery Map
Societies & Associations
Cook Co. Libraries
Family History Centers in Northern Illinois
IRAD Information:
Location, Hours, Available Records for Cook County
Links to sites containing more online data
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Cook County
History and
Genealogy
part of the Genealogy Trails Group
Illinois Genealogy Trails is an ALL-VOLUNTEER organization whose goal
is to put genealogical and historical information online for the free use of all researchers.
We transcribe genealogical and historical data so that you can track your ancestors through time, no matter where
their trails led them.
This Cook County website needs a dedicated host!
We're looking for folks who share our goals of putting free data online and who are interested in helping this
website be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim.
(Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe
data is required)
Until a permanent host volunteers, you can send your family's information to this website, via email, to us
We're looking to add the "raw data" folks can use to build their family trees (rather than the actual
trees themselves). This includes the transcribed data from the vital records, biographies from the county histories
as well as the county history information itself, transcriptions of obituaries, burials data from cemetery trompings
and/or readings, the data from military pensions and other service records; enumerations from census years, any
newspaper gleanings for the family members including birth announcements, marriage announcements, death notices/obits
and anything in between.
To help us get the data online quickly, it's very helpful to send the data transcribed (rather than sending in
a graphic).
**We regret that we do not have the time
to conduct personal research for you of ANY kind.**
We don't have time to find obituaries, death/birth/marriage/census/school
yearbook or cemetery records for you and still find time to transcribe data to put on this website. Thank you for
understanding!
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"COOK COUNTY, situated in the northeastern section of the State, bordering
on Lake Michigan, and being the most easterly of the second tier of counties south of the Wisconsin State line.
It has an area of 890 square miles; population (1890), 1,191,922; (1900), 1,838,735; county-seat, Chicago. The
county was organized in 1831, having originally embraced the counties of Du Page, Will, Lake, McHenry and Iroquois,
in addition to its present territorial limits. It was named in honor of Daniel Pope Cook, a distinguished Representative
of Illinois in Congress." (Historical Encylopedia of Illinois, 1901)
City of Chicago History
"Little is known about the Chicago area from 1700 until about 1779 when the pioneer
settler of Chicago, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable,
from Sainte-Domingue (Haiti), built the first permanent settlement at the mouth of the river just east of the present
Michigan Avenue Bridge on the north bank....Du Sable, who appears to have been a man of good taste and refinement,
was a husbandman, a carpenter, a cooper, a miller, and probably a distiller. In Du Sable's home, which he shared
with his Indian wife, the first marriage in Chicago was performed, the first election was held, and the first court
handed down justice. The religion of the first Chicagoan was Catholic and every contemporary report about Du Sable
describes him as a man of substance who started the story of Chicago as well as the story of the African American
in Chicago." [Source: A.T. Andreas "History of Chicago from
the Earliest Period to the Present Time" Chicago, 1884]
DuSable and his wife had two children, a boy named after his father, and a girl named Suzanna, whose birth is considered
the first recorded birth in the Chicago area. Today a plaque marks the site in Chicago where his home stood, a
high school in the city was named in his honor, and a memorial society exists to revere his memory. DuSable died
at St. Charles, Missouri.
The first white settler in Chicago was purported to be Quebec-born John Kinzie, an Indian trader. He established Kinzie's Trading Post in 1804, close to the Chicago River
or Lake Michigan. [Read about the American
Fur Company and Chicago]
Chicago was incorporated as a town in 1833
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Most Recent Website Updates
Jan 2012
Obits for SHERMAN, BROWN, WALTHER; Bios for ARNOLD, LUNDY, WOLFE, TAYLOR, COOKE. Obits for SHERMAN, BROWN, NEIGHTON,
RICE, SHATTUC, LUX; Birth Announcements for ENRIGHT, CHRISTIANSEN
Dec 2011:
FREYTAG obit; Burial of LEIS in St. Mar's German Catholic Cem; St. Adalbert Cemetery burials for KALASINSKI and
WASIELEWSKI; Bio for KRUITTSCHNITT, BURRELL/SHILES family data; Crime stories for HOCH, OLESON and Mrs COTTIER;
JOHNSON burial in Oak Forest Cem. BIEDERMAN, GILBERT obit; Native American news story; Obits for OHRENSTEIN, DUNN,
ENGELHARD; Marriage announcements for KRUEGER-MARQUARDT, KANDIK; bios for BERGFIELD, BRETSNYDER, BUCHANAN, BUSCH,
CALHOUN; obit for POULSON
Nov 2011:
FREYTAG obit; Burial of LEIS in St. Mary's German Catholic Cem; bio for KRUTTSCHNITT; Crime stories for HOCK, COTTIER,
OLESON; BIEDERMAN, GILBERT obits; Native American News Gleaning
Previous Updates
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