Lake County Libraries
- -Antioch 60002. Antioch Public Library 847-395-0874.
- -Barrington 60010. Barrington Area Public Library, 505 N. Northwest Highway. Phone (1.847.382.1300)
Under local information you will find pages for Barrington Area Digital Past, the Barrington Courier-Review Index, history of Barrington, genealogical research information, and Barrington area cemeteries. Other holdings include: Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly, 1969 to present on microfilm.Indexed to 1993. US Census Microfilms 1840-1880, 1900-1920 for the Barrington area portions of Cook, Lake, Kane, and McHenry Counties. Histories of Cook, Lake, and McHenry counties in the reference collection and some handwritten cemetery listings collected by a local historian, the late Arnett C. Lines. He died in 1970 and left his papers to the Library. The library staff will be happy to help anyone who comes to the Library to examine this material. However, budgetary restrictions and lack of staff time prevent the staff from answering most genealogy reference questions by mail. Copies of newspaper birth announcements, wedding notices and obituaries will be sent if specific dates are provided. For unindexed papers, if a specific date is given, the staff will search three weekly papers following that date. The charge is $5.00 for each name search. - -Buffalo Grove 60089. Family History Center, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 15 East Port Clinton Rd. Phone (1.847.913.5387). Hours: 10-2 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday & Saturday; 7-9:30 on Wednesday & Thursday nights. Has a volunteer staff and library may be closed at times. Call before your first visit. The facility is small with 3 computers, 6 microfilm readers, several microfiche readers, and one microfilm/microfiche printer. It is not set up for photocopying although copying a few pages is possible using the church copier. In addition to FamilySearch (i.e., IGI, Ancestral File, Library Catalog), many patrons have rented films on indefinite loan and they are available for everyone’s use. Any films you find in their catalog that they don’t have on hand you can rent for a small fee. An exploratory visit is worth your effort. They have some published books and a few of the LCIGS publications are among them.
- -Deerfield 60015. Deerfield Public Library
- -Fox Lake 60020. Fox Lake Library, 255 E. Grand Ave. Phone (1.847.587.0198). Open hours are listed on the web site. The collection includes LCIGS publications of the 1860 & 1870 censuses for Lake County and the 1850 census transcriptions for DuPage, Lake and McHenry Counties. In the Illinois History Area, you will find Bateman’s 1902 Encyclopedic History of Illinois and History of Lake County, Ruth Mogg’s original land sales plat book, History of Monaville by J. Proper, history of McHenry, and other histories of Lake County.
- -Grayslake 60030. College of Lake County Library 847-543-2071
- -Grayslake 60030. Grayslake Public Library 847-223-5313
- -Gurnee 60031. Warren-Newport Public Library 847 -244-5150
- -Highland Park 60035. Highland Park Public Library 847…
- -Highwood. Highwood Public Library (847) 459-1300
- 123 E. Scranton Ave.
Lake Bluff, IL 60044 847.234.2540 - -Lake Forest.360 East Deerpath, Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 847-234-0636 Lake Forest Public Library
- -Lake Villa101E. Grand ave. 60046. Lake Villa District Library 847-356-7711
- -Lake Zurich 60047. Ela Area Public Library has a local history section online.
- -Libertyville 60048. Cook Memorial Public Library 413 North Milwaukee Avenue, (1.847.362.2330).
- The library web site has a set of pages for genealogy detailing both its collection and genealogical research in general. A very good site. The Lake County (IL) Genealogical Society was headquartered at this library for 20+ years until the Society collection needed to move to a larger space. Since the collection was a group effort between the Society and the library, there is still an extensive collection of genealogical materials at Cook. Included is the complete series of Germans to America composed of 50+ volumes, census indexes for various years for several states, general references for many states, genealogical periodicals; and much more. A drawback of the site is that it doesn’t include any information about Lake County genealogy or local histories.The local genealogy materials were owned by the Society and moved with them but Cook has many items of local history that would be useful to researchers. They are stored in the Local History section of the library.
- -Mundelein 60060. Fremont Township Public Library, 1170 N. Midlothian Road. Phone (1.847.566.8702). Click for location and hours. The main library has materials of interest to genealogists in its own collection. Some local history links are found online. The Genealogy Room (on the second floor) contains the collection of the Lake County (IL) Genealogical Society. Phone number is (1.847.918.3208). If there is no answer, try the main library at (1.847.566.8702). The Genealogy Room is open most of the hours that the main library is open and is staffed by volunteers. Volunteers are available at least 85% of the time so it is best to call ahead before making a trip to the library. The Genealogy Room is not open if there is no volunteer on site.Lake County materials at the Family History Library in Salt Lake CIty.
- -Vernon Hills 60061. Vernon Area Public Library
- 801 N. Main Street
Wauconda, IL 60084
Phone: 847.526.6225 - -Wauconda 60084. Wauconda Area Library 847-52…
- -Waukegan 60085. Waukegan Public Library [skype_tb_img_flag] [skype_tb_img_arrow] (847) 623-2041
The former Special Collections Page showed that there is available at the library: an Obituary File that is an index to obits that appeared in the Waukegan newspapers prior to 1900; City Directories for 1874 and several years between 1892 and 1997, Waukegan High School Yearbooks, and local newspapers on microfilm. To see what newspapers they hold, try the online catalog or the reference desk. - 2400 Gabriel ave.,Zion,Il 60099 847 872 4680
