Illinois State Archives
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[edit] Address and Contact Info
Address:Office of the Secretary of State, Margaret Cross Norton Bldg., Springfield, IL 62756
Phone:(217) 782-4682
Fax: (217) 524-3930
E-mail: djoens@ilsos.net
Web page: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/archives.html
Director: David Joens
Online Finding Aids: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/collections.html
[edit] Hours and usage restrictions
Hours: Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; Saturday, 8:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m. (except on holiday weekends).
[edit] Collection Summary
The Illinois State Archives is the official depository for those records of government, both state and local, which no longer have immediate use for the agency that created them and which have been appraised to have long-term legal, administrative, historical, or other research values. The archival records of state government are housed at the Margaret Cross Norton Building in Springfield. All three branches of state government are well represented, as there are 2,443 separate functional record series arranged under 191 different offices, departments, divisions, institutions, boards, the legislature, the supreme court, and several federal agencies whose records were transferred officially to the state of Illinois. The archives building contains over 73,000 cubic feet of state government records. The functions of these records were both practical and varied, and as a consequence the subjects with which they dealt were extremely diverse. Database topic entries run from “abandoned airports” to “zoning.”
The state archives administers the Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD) system to manage the archival records of local governments. Based at seven state university campuses, regional depositories house and service those records of local governments that have been appraised as having long-term values and have been transferred to the archives’ custody. While one depository is devoted solely to Cook County, the other six include regions made up of from 14 to 23 contiguous counties. Records holdings represent 101 counties and over 200 cities, towns, townships, and villages. In all there are 4,143 individual record series that bulk at 13,910 microfilm rolls and 8,174 cubic feet of materials. These records concern courts, schools, land, taxation, elections, welfare, accounts and audits, inquests, military service, jail prisoners, professional practitioners, births, deaths, marriages, mortgages, naturalizations, and the multifaceted considerations of local boards and councils.
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