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Books

Search the local history book collection in our catalog.

Clippings File – In Library Use

Over 700 Subject and House Folders (PDF)

Online Exhibits

Walking Tours

Libertyville’s Historic Milwaukee Avenue

Maps – In Library Use

Sanborn Maps

Map File Inventory (PDF)

Newspapers

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Microfilm

• Little Fort Porcupine (1845 – 1847 select issues)
• Waukegan Weekly Gazette (1850 – 1886 select issues)
• Lake County Independent (February 1894 – April 21, 1916)
• Libertyville Independent (April 28, 1916 – 1922)
• Lake County Register (July 4, 1923 – April 1, 1930)
• Independent-Register (April 3, 1930 – December 1987)
• The News-Sun (January 1988 – December 1999)
• Daily Herald (January 1999 – present)

Browse Online

• Lake County Independent Feb. 9, 1894-March 16, 1906
• Lake County Independent and Waukegan Weekly Sun March 23, 1906-April 21, 1916
• Libertyville Independent April 28, 1916-1925
• Lake County Register 1923-1925

Obituary Index (1894 – 1999)

Photos, Postcards, Documents

From the Libertyville History Collection of the Illinois Digital Archives

Telephone Books

Online (select years 1913 – 1959)

In Library Use (select years 1913 – 2010)

Yearbooks

Libertyville High School, 1918-present (in library use at Cook Park Library)

Vernon Hills High School, 2001-present (in library use at Aspen Drive Library)