Below are just a few of MANY digitized publications. Please visit https://archive.org/details/@mchistory to see more! The digitization of these resources was funded in part by Illinois Humanities.
To Sustain the Union: McLean County during the Civil War (Local History Series, Book I)
Journey through the Great Depression (Local History Series, Book II)
Presence, Pride, & Passion: A History of African Americans in McLean County (Local History Series, Book III)
Bloomington's C&A Shops: Our Lives Remembered
It Is Begun: The Pantagraph Reports the Civil War
History of African Americans in McLean County 1835-1975
A Matter Of Life And Death by Lucinda McCray Beier
Irish Immigrants in McLean County by Greg Koos
Heart of the Corn Belt: An Illustrated History of Corn Farming in McLean County by William D. Walters
Pages from the Past: Stories from the Sunday Pantagraph by Bill Kemp
The Illustrated History of McLean County by Greg Koos, Don Munson & Martin Wyckoff
Come & Get It! The McDonaldization and the Disappearance of Local Food from a Central Illinois Community by Robert Dirks
Pictorial Souvenir Central Illinois 1912
McLean County Blacks in the Civil War
History of the Illinois Association of Club Women and Girls, Inc. 1901-1975
Civil War Diaries of James W. Jessee 1861-1865
Gifts to the Prairie: The Work of Pioneer Nurserymen and the Art of the Prestele Family
Franklin Park Architectural Tour
Lexington Achitectural Tour
Rituals and Passages: 75 Years of The American Passion Play
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