MICHIANA HISTORY PUBLICATIONS
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MATERIALS ON:
ILLINOIS-INDIANA-MICHIGAN-OHIO AND SELECTED OTHER STATES
Illinois
Boone County
Garden Prairie Cemetery Bonus Twp. Boone County, Illinois and Poplar Grove Cemetery Poplar Grove Twp., Boone County, Illinois. Volume 5. Compiled and Researched by Helen Maxwell Williams. Kishwaukee Genealogists. 66 total pages. Softcover.
The records for Garden Prairie Cemetery go back to August 1863 but there are many graves with dates in the 1820's and 1840's. The records cover through June, 1990. This is a newly researched and corrected copy with a location map. Poplar Grove Cemetery information covers 1847 to June 1990. This is a newly researched and corrected copy with a location map.
Price: $10.00
Champaign County
Cornstalk and Chaff of Champaign County. By Richard L. Morgan. Sesquicentennial Committee of Champaign County, Illinois. 166 pages. Hardcover.
Note: Inscription "To Bob and Ruth with much love from Donna and Gil, Chris and Johnny."
Discusses the early occupation by Native Americans, white settlers, municipal beginnings, transportation, post-Civil War expansion, agriculture, education, the Depression, and World War II. Contains many photographs.
Price: $30.00
Chicago
Race and Ethnicity in Chicago Politics. A Reexamination of Pluralist Theory. By Dianne M. Pinderhughes. University of Chicago Press. 318 p. Hardcover.
An examination of the political integration of three important racial and ethnic groups in Chicago, describing the process by which blacks, Italians, and Poles transformed themselves from migrants and immigrants into American citizens and residents of an urban political environment. Measures both the speed of entry into and the participation of each group in the political area by contrasting voter participation records and the proportion of each group represented in elected office.
Price: $15.00
Creating Chicago's North Shore., a Suburban History. By Michael H. Ebner. University of Chicago Press. 1988. 338 pages. Hardcover.
Ebner explains the origins and evolution of the North Shore as a distinctive region. This area covers Evanston, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Glencoe, Highland Park, Lake Forest, and Lake Bluff. At the same time, he tells the paradoxical story of how these suburbs, with their common heritage, mutual values, and shared aspirations, still preserve their distinctly separate identities. He examines the relationship of the communities to each other and of the region to the city. Contains nearly 150 photographs.
Price: $20.00
Beyond the Martyrs. A Social History of Chicago's Anarchists, 1870 - 1900. By Bruce C. Nelson. Rutgers University Press. 1988. 305 pages. Softcover.
Nelson uses the Haymarket affair of May 4, 1886, as a window into Chicago's labor movement and the broader processes of historical, social, and political change from 1870 to 1900. He sees the leadership and active membership of Chicago's anarchist groups as the most visible segment of a much larger social movement. Unlike other studies of the Haymarket affair and this period, Nelson focuses on the rank and file of the anarchist movement rather than its leadership. Drawing on the multilingual sources of its diverse ethnic membership, he reconstitutes the anarchist movement and generates a collective biography of its membership. The movement's composition, organization culture, ideology, and modes of agitation and political strategies are all part of the author's fascinating study. with photographs, and some have transferred to the pages facing the photograph pages.
Price: $7.50
Cook County
Nazis in Skokie. Freedom, Community, and the First Amendment. By Donald Alexander Downs. University of Notre Dame Press. 1985. 227 pages. Softcover.
Front cover has crease from top to bottom. In 1977, a Chicago-based group announced its plans to demonstrate in Skokie, Ill., a suburb with a large Jewish population, where hundreds of Holocaust survivors lived. The community protested, and the issue went to court; the ACLU defended the Nazis' right to free speech. The court ruled in the Nazi's favor. Based upon interviews with participants in the controversy, the author asks if the court may have strayed too far from its function of maintaining the community's faith in the principle that the rule of law can protect their collective interests.
Price: $5.00
Edwards County
Boewe, Charles. Prairie Albion. An English Settlement in Pioneer Illinois. Southern Illinois University Press. Carbondale, Illinois. 1962. 317 pages. Hardcover.
Discusses the English settlement established in 1817 by Morris Birkbeck and George Flower in the Illinois Territory.
Price: $20.00
Fayette County
Stroble, Paul E. High On the Okaw's Western Bank. Vandalia, Illinois, 1819 - 39. University of Illinois Press. 1992. 178 pages. Hardcover.
The first complete history of Vandalia during its twenty years as the second capital of Illinois. Charts the towns earliest days and discusses its most important figures.
Price: $25.00
Montgomery County
Montgomery County, Illinois Cemeteries. Volume 1. Arranged and published by Lynn Boyd Reener. 1985. 32 pages. Softcover.
The original materials were compiled by Litchfield High School history students during the 1940's and 1950's. The present book reorganizes the materials according to township and cemetery. Many of the tombstones listed in the original sources can no longer be found. Includes township maps. This volume covers Bois D'Arc, Pitman, Harvel, and Zanesville Townships.
Price: $7.50
Peoria County
Records of Peoria County, Illinois. By Linda S. Allison. Vio-Lin Enterprises. 1972. Reprinted by Ye Olde Genealogie Shoppe 80 pages. Softcover.
Provides a listing of the names signed to the constitution f the Old Settlers' Association at the time of its adoption in the summer of1867 as well as a listing of people who later joined the association. Gives date of their settlement in Illinois as well as when they settled in Peoria County. Also contains an 1896 reference directory of Peoria County indicating the year in which they moved to Peoria county. Additional information includes the first tax assessment (1825), and an alphabetical index.
Price: $10.00
White County
Marriages From White County, Illinois. Volume No. 3: 1901 - 1915. Copied by Harriet Vaught. No publisher. No date. 177 pages. Softcover.
This book is arranged chronologically. Lists bride and groom, ages, parents and date of marriage. Contains nearly 4,000 names of brides and grooms and 8,000 names of parents.
Price: $10.00
Whiteside County
I Remember When . . . A Whiteside County Genealogists' Bicentennial Publication. 150 pages. Hardcover.
Contains more that 100 reminiscences by various town residents. Discusses commerce, agriculture, one-room school houses, eating habits, and much more.
Price: $10.00