The Champaign County GenWeb site has many Champaign County resources including documents and web links. The topics include: history, maps, townships, churches, residents, military records, cemeteries, Champaign County books, schools, and other resources.

The Champaign County Historical Archives is located on the second floor of the Urbana Free Library; Urbana, Illinois and the research site for CCGS.

Champaign County death certificates are indexed in this FamilySearch database titled, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947".

Champaign County death records may be found in this index to Illinois death records from 1916 to 1950.

This is an excellent resource for Champaign County information.

HPNL is a library at the University of Illinois and has current and historical newspapers. Their holdings consist of over 100,000 reels of microfilmed newspapers.

Titles Available: Daily Illini 1874-1975 & Urbana Daily Courier 1903-1935

The Champaign County Historical Archives catalog to their holdings.

Graveyards.com has lists and maps of cemeteries in Illinois. This link is directly to the Champaign County map.

A Standard history of Champaign County Illinois : an authentic narrative of the past, with particular attention to the modern era in the commercial, industrial, civic and social development : a chronicle of the people, with family lineage and memoirs. Volume 1 (1918) on the Internet Archive website.

A Standard history of Champaign County Illinois : an authentic narrative of the past, with particular attention to the modern era in the commercial, industrial, civic and social development : a chronicle of the people, with family lineage and memoirs. Volume 2 (1918) on the Internet Archive website.

The book contains portions of the Historical encyclopedia of Illinois (volume 1) and the full History of Champaign County (volume 2). This link takes you to the start of volume 2 (Page 134/628) which is the start of History of Champaign County on the Internet Archive website. To view the full Historical encyclopedia of Illinois use the webpage link: https://archive.org/stream/historicalencyclv1bate#page/n7/mode/2up

Portrait and biographical album of Champaign County, Ill. : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of Illinois, and of the presidents of the United States (1887) on the Internet Archive website.

The biographical record of Champaign County Ill. (1900) on the Internet Archive website.

In addition to the papers and artifacts on Abraham Lincoln, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library (ALPL) is a valuable resource for genealogists. Their collection includes manuscripts, newspapers, oral histories, books, pamphlets, maps, and periodicals.

Some of the databases include: Databases of Illinois Veterans; Illinois Statewide Death Index (1916-1950); Illinois Statewide Death Index, Pre-1916; and Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900.

Historical encyclopedia of Illinois (volume 1) is edited by Newton Bateman and Paul Selby and published in 1905. The book is available on the Internet Archive website.

The Illinois Digital Archives (IDA) is a repository for the digital collections of the Illinois State Library as well as other libraries and cultural institutions in the State of Illinois. The collection includes: photographs, histories, letters, IL government documents, postcards, posters, newspapers, maps, etc.

The Illinois GenWeb page has links to the county projects and state special projects.

The Illinois Newspaper Project (INP) team inventoried newspaper collections and created a database of all newspapers discovered. Search the INP database to find newspapers publications and the published dates.

Illinois State Archives is the depository of public records of Illinois state and local governmental agencies which possess permanent administrative, legal, or historical research values in the Norton Building. In addition to the State Archives, there are seven regional depositories located on state university campuses throughout Illinois with local government holdings.

The mission of ISGS is to provide leadership, education, and support in promoting genealogy and the ancestral heritage of Illinois.

A comprehensive, categorized & cross-referenced list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online.

Elizabeth Shown Mills' book Evidence Explained is the focus of this website. To learn more about citing your genealogy sources, review the QuickLessons and the Sample QuickCheck Models.

The Newberry Library provides an interactive map, county chronologies, and other resources to learn how county boundaries in the United States formed and changed.

The Atlas was originally published in the 1930s. The maps have been georeferenced to be used in an interactive map and allows the historic maps to be viewed in a new environment. A few examples of the available maps are transportation, political, settlement, and military.

David Rumsey is a private collector of maps and is digitizing his collection of maps to be viewed free-or-charge by users.

The maps for the years identified show the county boundary changes and newly created counties in Illinois.

The Digital Public Library of America is making records available for public use. Types of records include photographs, books, sounds, manuscripts, and more from libraries, archives, and museums in the United States.

A partnership of institutions and libraries who are preserving and sharing digital books and journals.

The Internet Archive is a digital library. Some features include the "Wayback Machine" which has archived versions of websites. The "Texts" section includes historical texts, academic books, and etc. Plus many more features and data.