Local History Online

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Local History Online, the Urbana Free Library's indexes to Urbana municipal government documents and Champaign County history and genealogy, is now available to users of the Internet. Local History Online provides perhaps the most comprehensive and unique resource for local historical and governmental information in the nation.

These indexes do not represent the complete book and periodical holdings of the Champaign County Historical Archives. To locate these materials, please search The Urbana Free Library Online Catalog, which is located here: Online Catalog - Urbana Free Library

The Champaign County Historical and Genealogical Index
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An outgrowth of the Library’s initial indexing projects of the 1960s and 1970s, which resulted in a 400,000-card name index to many Champaign County governmental records of genealogical interest, the Champaign County Historical and Genealogical Index was begun in 1995 with the intent to both reformat the information already indexed on cards and to expand upon the work that had been done by computer indexing other local history resources. In these areas, the Champaign County Historical and Genealogical Index has achieved its initial goals and greatly surpassed them. The index provides access to a massive amount of information on Champaign County people, places, and events.

Urbana Municipal Documents Index
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Indexing of City of Urbana government documents was begun by the Library in 1979 with the establishment of the Urbana Municipal Documents Center, a joint project of the City of Urbana and the Urbana Free Library. This cooperative project, nationally unique at its inception, gave both City of Urbana staff and residents improved access to municipal information through microfilming of records and computer-generated indexes available in City offices and the Library. From the Center’s beginning through its closing in 2003, a wide variety of City records were indexed, including meetings of the City Council and other City committees and commissions, City ordinances and resolutions, permits, plans, and reports. In all, nearly one half million index entries were created for the more than 63,000 municipal records and documents dating from 1855 through 2001 that were indexed.

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