Local History Publications & Sanborn Maps

General Reference

• History of McLean County Illinois Vol 1
  • Vol 2
• Heads of Families of McLean County, Illinois, at the Census of 1840
• The Biographical Record of McLean County, Illinois
• The Story of McLean County and its Schools
• The Good Old Times in McLean County, Illinois
• Portrait and biographical album of McLean county, Ill.
• The History of McLean County, Illinois; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men
• History of Bloomington and Normal in McLean County, Illinois
• Official Souvenir Program, McLean County Centennial, Aug.27,28,30, l930
• Bloomington's Deutch in Wort und Bild
• A Little McLean County History
• Robert Stubblefield, and His Son, John Stubblefield, Pioneers of McLean County, Illinois
• Historical encyclopedia of Illinois Vol 1
  • Vol 2
  • Vol 3
• Measuring the progress of extension work: a study of 590 farms and farm homes in McLean and Macon Counties, Ill., 1926
• American aerial county history series: (Volume 31 (McLean))

War and Jail

• The Good Old Times in McLean County, Illinois
• Evolution of the jail of McLean County, Illinois
• McLean County, Illinois, in the World War, 1917-1918
• Soldiers of the war of 1812 whose bounty land grants were located in McLean County, Illinois

Cemetery

• Soldiers of the Revolution and the War of 1812 Buried in McLean County, Illinois
• Some old gravestone inscriptions in Bloomington and Randolph townships. McLean County, Illinois
• Central Illinois Obituaries, 1871-1880

Sanborn Fire Maps

Browse all maps here: https://www.loc.gov/collections/sanborn-maps/?all=true&fa=location:illinois%7Clocation:mclean+county

• April 1885 (Chenoa, McLean Co., 2 images) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g41...
• April 1885 (Lexington, McLean Co., 2 images) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g41...
• April 1885 (Normal, McLean Co., 2 images) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g41...
• August 1886 (Bloomington, McLean Co., 16 images) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g41...
• January 1892 (Bloomington, McLean Co., 18 images) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g41...
• October 1892 (Chenoa, McLean Co., 3 images) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g41...
• November 1892 (Lexington, McLean Co., 2 images) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g41...
• October 1893 (Colfax, McLean Co., 2 images) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g41...
• October 1893 (LeRoy, McLean Co., 3 images) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g41...
• October 1893 (Saybrook, McLean Co., 2 images) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g41...
• June 1894 (Danvers, McLean Co., 2 images) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g41...
• December 1894 (Chenoa, McLean Co., 3 images) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g41...
• July 1896 (Bloomington, McLean Co., 32 images) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g41...
• February 1899 (Saybrook, McLean Co., 2 images) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g41...
• March 1899 (LeRoy, McLean Co., 4 images) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g41...
• August 1899 (Colfax, McLean Co., 2 images) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g41...
• August 1899 (Lexington, McLean Co., 3 images) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g41...

Historical Society Transactions

• Transactions of the McLean County Historical Society, Volume 1
• Transactions of the McLean County Historical Society, Volume 2
• Transactions of the McLean County Historical Society,Volume 3, 1900
• Transactions of the McLean County Historical Society, Volume 4, 1936
• Transactions of the McLean County historical society, Bloomington, Illinois. (1899, 1900, 1903)
• School Record of McLean County and Other Papers

Townships: Bloomington, Normal, Funks Grove, and LeRoy

• History of Bloomington and Normal, in McLean County, Illinois
• Funk Farms, Birthplace of Commercial Hybrid Corn.
• Heritage of the Prairie
• Early History of Pleasant Hill, McLean County, Illinois. Volume 10
• Bloomington-Normal area: McLean County, Danvers, Normal, LeRoy, and McLean quadrangles
• Guide Leaflet, Geological Science Field Trip, Bloomington-Normal Area: McLean County, Danvers, LeRoy, McLean, and Normal Quadrangles
• Lincoln in Some of His Unheroic Hours

Misc. Records

• Biographical History of the Members of the McLean County Medical Society of Illinois
• Phoenix plant catalogue including plant novelties, greenhouse & bedding plants in eight classes, each alphabetically arranged
• History of Holy Trinity Parish
• Art Work of Bloomington, Illinois, (published in nine parts)
• BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS AVIATION 1920,1930,1940