General Reference

This book includes an alphabetical list of places to see (points of historic interest), notable people born here, special events that occurred here, and includes a fold out map of the city.

Pages from the Past includes 75 of the nearly 360 installments of "A Page from Our Past" that have appeared in The Pantagraph as of December 2012. Selections range from the 1730 siege of the Fox in eastern McLean County to the 1970 Vietnam War protests by Illinois State University students. Readers will find in these pages everything from new perspectives on oft-told local tales to offbeat forays into the lives of hometown eccentrics and rabble rousers.

This Guidebook, as its name implies, is for the purpose of pointing out historic places in McLean County. The casual visitor and the county resident, both will profit by its contents. The promotion of state tourism should bring increasing numbers of visitors to this area. County residents so familiar with our main highways of traffic will be surprised what lies hidden in the byways. 

Contains 261 sketches of old settlers, a complete historical sketch of the Black Hawk War, and descriptions of all matters of interest relating to McLean County.

Contains full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of Illinois and of the presidents of the United States.

German-language publication.

"A Little McLean County History" is an article from Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1908-1984), Volume 8.

This illustrated history of McLean County is the first of two volumes.

This illustrated history of McLean County is the second of two volumes.

In this volume of over 500 illustrations the story of this land, called McLean County, Illinois, is explored. Starting with the land itself, the reader is shown the earliest inhabitants, the white settler, the Yankee and his war against slavery. These photographs, most of them never before published, then allow us to view the growth of our towns and city, with their inherent closeness to the land and the farmers who grew with it.