As we locate electronic books relevant to Cook County history & genealogy, we will share them here.
Biographical
- A compendium of freemasonry in Illinois embracing a review of the introduction, development and present condition of all rites and degrees; together with biographical sketches of distinquished members of the fraternity. (1897)
- Album of Genealogy and Biography of Cook County, Illinois – 1897, 1899, 1900
- History of the Norwegians of Illinois (1905)
- Portrait and Biographical Record of Cook and Dupage counties, Illinois (1894)
- Eliza Chappel Porter: A Memoir (1892) – first public school teacher in Chicago
- Biographical sketches of some of the early settlers of the city of Chicago (1876)
Cemeteries
- The Roll of Honor, Containing the Names of Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines of All the Wars of Our Country Who Are Buried in the Cemeteries of Cook County by Eli Robert Lewis (Chicago, Ill.: Printing Products Corp., 1922) available online at Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana
History
- The Blue Island Story (1962)
- Civil Manual for Chicago, Cook County and Illinois (1910)
- Chicago (1933)
- Chicago Antiquities: Comprising Original Items and Relations, Letters, Extracts, and Notes, Pertaining to Early Chicago; Embellished with Views, Portraits, Autographs, Etc. (1881)
- Early Chicago. A Lecture delivered before the Sunday Lecture Society, at McCormick Hall, on Sunday afternoon, May 7th, 1876
- Great Chicago Theater Disaster by Marshall Everett
- The First Hundred Years 1835-1935 Historical Review of Blue Island, Illinois (1938)
- History of Chicago. Historical and Commercial Statistics, Sketches, Facts and Figures, Republished from the “Daily Democratic Press.” What I Remember of Early of Early Chicago; A Lecture, Delivered in McCormick’s Hall, January 23, 1876
- Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois (1901)
- History of Cook County (1909)
- Historical Review of Chicago and Cook County (1908)