The Local History Collection is located on the second floor, next to the stairs. Genealogy resources and assistance are also available upstairs.
New Lenox & Lincoln-Way Area
Rural Historic Structural Survey of New Lenox Township, Will County, Illinois
For the Will County Land Use Department and the Will County Historic Preservation Commission.
Lincoln-Way Community High School San Diego Band Trip 1997
Lincoln-Way Community High School
Heritage of Faith, Heritage of Land: A History and Background of the Marley Community Church of Marley, Illinois, 1833-1983
By Iva Gillett Sproat
Joliet
The First Catholic Church in Joliet, Illinois
A Look at Joliet and Will County, Illinois
Written and compiled by Jean Stout; edited by Roberta Williams
Joliet Junior College 1901 to 2001: A Pictorial History of America's Oldest Public Community College
By Robert E. Sterling
Will & Kankakee Counties
A Look at Joliet and Will County, Illinois
Written and compiled by Jean Stout; edited by Roberta Williams
Development of Public School Administration in the Public Schools of Will County, Illinois, s shown in a comparison of three selected years, 1877, 1920, and 1965
By Leslie Joseph Farrington
Digging Up the Dirt: the History and Mysteries of the Will County Poor Farm and Potter's Fields
By Gina Wysocki
Documents Relating to the Organization of the Joliet and Northern Indiana Railroad Company
By Joliet and Northern Indiana Railroad Company
FAP 340 (I-355 South Extension) Interstate Route 55 to Interstate Route 80, Cook, DuPage and Will Counties
Fifteen Years Ago: or, The Patriotism of Will County
Designed to preserve the names and memory of Will County soldiers, both officers and privates – both living and dead: to tell something of what they did, and of what they suffered, in the great struggle to preserve our nationality
By George H. Woodruff
Historical essays on the Illinois & Michigan Canal
By John M. Lamb ; compiled and edited by Michael P. Conzen ; foreword by James Gaffney
I & M Canal Pioneers' Stories: Bringing History to Life in the Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor
By Canal Corridor Association
John Lane: Inventor of the First Steel Plow, 1833 by Dorothy Frazer Francis
John Lane and His Steel Plow by Monna Milton Rowley
John Lane, Blacksmith by Harry H. Hull
Land Atlas and Plat Book, Will County, Illinois
Compiled and published by Rockford Map Publishers
Prairie Farmer's Directory of Will and Southern Cook Counties, Illinois
Rural Historic Structural Survey of Channahon Township, Will County, Illinois
For Will County Land Use Department and Will County Historic Preservation Commission [by] Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.
Rural Historic Structural Survey of Joliet and Troy Townships, Will County, Illinois
For Will County Land Use Department and Will County Historic Preservation Commission [by] Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.
Rural Historic Structural Survey of Will County, Illinois: Context History, August 2003
For the Will County Land Use Department and the Will County Historic Preservation Commission.
Souvenir of Settlement and Progress of Will County, Illinois: A review of the lives of our presidents, political, military and commercial history of the United States and of the state of Illinois & Business Directory of Joliet
The History of Will County, Illinois: containing a history of the county ... a directory of its real estate owners; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; general and local statistics ... history of Illinois ... history of the Northwest ...
The John M. Lamb Collection
Chicago & Cook County
Atlas of National Wetlands Inventory Maps in the Chicago Metro Area
By Ronald E. Erickson and Marvin E. Hubbell
The Book of the Fair: An historical and descriptive presentation of the world's science, art, and industry, as viewed through the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893
By Herbert Howe Bancroft
Chicago and Cook County Sources: A Genealogical and Historical Guide
By Loretto Dennis Szucs
Chicago's Highways, Old and New, from Indian Trail to Motor Road
By Milo M. Quaife, with an introduction by Joy Morton
The Encyclopedia of Chicago
Edited by James R. Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating, Janice L. Reiff ; cartographic editor, Michael P. Conzen
Exploring Route 66 in Chicagoland: Journeys Through History on the Mother Road in Cook County, Illinois
By David G. Clark
FAP 340 (I-355 South Extension) Interstate Route 55 to Interstate Route 80, Cook, DuPage and Will Counties
Graveyards of Chicago: The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries
By Matt Hucke and Ursula Bielski
History of Cook County, Illinois: being a general survey of Cook County history, including a condensed history of Chicago and special account of districts outside the city limits; from the earliest settlement to the present time
Editors, Weston A. Goodspeed, LL. B. and Daniel D. Healy
Planning the Region of Chicago
Prepared under the direction of the Chicago Regional Planning Association by Daniel H. Burnham, Jr., and Robert Kingery. Edited by John Barstow Morrill and Paul O. Fischer
Illinois
History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, during the War of the Rebellion
By L.G. Bennett and Wm. M. Haigh
Illinois Valley Community College: The First Seventy Years
By Elizabeth Cummings with appendices by William Danley
Lincoln in Illinois: Commemorating the Bicentennial of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln, February 12, 2009
Ron Schramm, photographer; Richard E. Hart, compiler and editor
Record of Proceedings: Sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention, December 8 ,1969–September 3, 1970
Springfield: A Reflection in Photography
Compiled by Edward J. Russo, Curtis R. Mann, and Melinda L. Garvert
United States
Deeds of Valor: How America's Civil War Heroes Won the Congressional Medal of Honor
Edited by W.F. Beyer and O.F. Keydel
Liberty's Victorious Conflict: A Photographic History of the World War
Other Reference
High School Handbook of Composition
By Edwin C. Woolley, Franklin W. Scott, and J.C. Tressler