Illinois State Guide

Selected Bibliography

General Interest

Biles, Roger. Illinois: A History of the Land and its People. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005.
LC Call Number: F541.3 .B55 2005 [Catalog Record]

Gove, Samuel Kimball. Illinois Politics and Government: The Expanding Metropolitan Frontier. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996
LC Call Number: JK5716 .G66 1996 [Catalog Record]

Illinois; A Descriptive and Historical Guide, Compiled and Written by the Federal Writer’s Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Illinois. St. Clair Shores, Mich.: Somerset Publishers, 1973.
LC Call Number: F539.3 .F4 1973 [Catalog Record]

Kay, Betty Carlson. Illinois from A to Z. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
LC Call Number: F541.6 .K39 2000 [Catalog Record]

Meyer, Douglas K. Making the Heartland Quilt: A Geographical History of Settlement and Migration in Early-Nineteenth-Century Illinois. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.
LC Call Number: F545 .M55 2000 [Catalog Record]

Petterchak, Janice. Historic Illinois: An Illustrated History. San Antonio, Tex.: Historical Publishing Network, 2005.
LC Call Number: F541 .P47 2005 [Catalog Record]

For Younger Readers

Heinrichs, Ann. Illinois. Chanhassen, Minn.: Child’s World, 2006.
LC Call Number: F541.3 .H455 2006 [Catalog Record]

Santella, Andrew. Illinois History. Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2003.
LC Call Number: F541.3 .S265 2003 [Catalog Record]

-----. Illinois Native Peoples. Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2003.
LC Call Number: E78.I3 S26 2003 [Catalog Record]