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Biography In Context
This resource combines Gale biographies with related full-text articles from magazines and newspapers, thousands of images, and links to websites.
Chicago Tribune (1985 – present)
Full text of the newspaper from 1985 – present.
Historical Chicago Tribune (1849 – 1997)
Full-text of the newspaper from 1849-1997. The collection provides access to every page from every available issue.
Chicago Community News Coverage
Daily Herald (1995-present), Park Ridge Journal (2010-present), and Park Ridge Herald-Advocate (1995-present) full-text articles.
eRead Illinois Digital Catalog
A new service that offers additional eBooks for checkout. Limit 5 checkouts at a time. Visit the eRead Illinois Digital Catalog to browse the collection and check out eBooks. eRead Illinois is supported by the Illinois Secretary of State through the Illinois State Library. Try our tutorial to help you use eRead Illinois.
Gale eBooks
Thousands of full-text reference sources including arts, biography, business, history, literature, medicine, and more. Try our tutorial to help you use Gale eBooks.
Historical New York Times (1851-2017)
Digitized cover to cover from 1851-2017. The collection includes access to every page from every available issue.
Novelist Plus
Database that can help you search through over 100,000 fiction titles to find books that you would like to read. Try our tutorial to help you use Novelist Plus.
Novelist K-8
Database that has reading recommendations for both fiction and nonfiction, for kids in grades K-8. Use it to find just the right books for every reader.
Overdrive/Libby
Hundreds of digital books, audiobooks, digital videos, and now magazines to download and enjoy anytime, anywhere. Try our tutorial to help you use Overdrive. There’s a new even easier app called Libby available now! You can download it here for Apple, Android, and Windows devices!
World Book Online
The online multimedia version of the popular print encyclopedia for adults and children. Try our tutorial to get started with World Book!
WorldCat
Catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide with millions of bibliographic records representing 400 languages. Part of OCLC FirstSearch.
