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Vol. 1
#1  A Word of Introduction
#2  State-owned Historic Sites; Old Stone Arch Bridge (Clark Co.); Aaron G. Cloud Home (McLeansboro)
#3  I & M Canal; Chicago's "L"; Jacksonville's Historic District
#4  Lincoln Log Cabin (Lerna vic.); Illinois Preservation Caucus; Archaeological Preservation Plan; East Lynn Garage (East Lynn)
#5  U.S. Grant Home (Galena); Gen. Thomas Rodman Home (Rock Island); Charter Oak Schoolhouse (Schuline vic.); Robert Waugh House (Sparland)
#6  Lincoln's Tomb (Springfield); Historic Landscape at New Salem (Petersburg); Baker Hotel (St. Charles); Old Central Grade School (Lockport)

Vol. 2
#1  New Salem as an Outdoor Museum (Petersburg); Egyptian Revival Style Buildings; C. A. Petersen: Pioneer Gas State Architect
#2  French Colonial District; Table Grove; Shelbyville's Chautauqua; Fort Kaskaskia (Randolph Co.)
#3  Life in the Eighth Judicial Circuit; Batavia's Campana Factory; Richard J. Oglesby House (Decatur)
#4  Shawneetown Bank; The Villa (Chicago); Restoration of Lock 14 (I & M Canal); New Salem (Petersburg)
#5  Vandalia Statehouse; Zion Hospice; Surface Mining in Illinois
#6  Cahokia:  A Mississippian Metropolis; Rural Survey Begins

Vol. 3
#1  French Outpost on the Mississippi (Ft. de Chartres); Renovating Chicago's Marquette Building; Daniel Barrows Home (Galena)
#2  Cahokia Courthouse; Springfield's Union Station; The Black Watch (Ft. de Chartres)
#3  Henry Ford & the Postville Courthouse; Surface Mining Update; Pinecraig (Naperville); New Salem Volunteers
#4  Galena's Market House; Peoria Waterworks
#5  The Sauk & Fox Indians in Illinois; Ste. Genevieve--St. Joachim
#6  Bryant Cottage (Bement); Marvelous Maeystown; Jacksonville Labor Temple; John J. Lewis Home (Springfield)

Vol. 4
#1 Fort Massac (Metropolis); Mt. Carroll's Campbell Center for Historic Preservation (Carroll Co.)
#2  American Woman's League; Garrison Hill Cemetery (Chester vic.)
#3  Springfield's Dana-Thomas House; First Universalist Church (Elgin)
#4  Little Pistol: An Archaeological Mystery (Ft. de Chartres); Banking in Early Illinois; Boismenue House (Prairie du Rocher)
#5  Nauvoo State Historic Site; Lincoln Tomb Sanctuary Restored (Springfield)
#6  Lawrence Memorial Library (Springfield); Lincoln Joins the Militia; Ft. de Chartres Bastion Restored (Prairie du Rocher)

Vol. 5
#1 Bishop Hill State Historic Site; Warsaw Historic District; Stockade Excavations at Cahokia Mounds
#2  Mt. Pulaski Courthouse; Metamora Courthouse; Storefronts Revealed in Downtown Macomb; Grosse Point Light Station (Evanston)
#3  French Regime in Illinois, 1718-1740; CB&Q Roundhouse (Aurora); Union-Bluff City Brewery (Alton)
#4  French Regime in Illinois, 1739-1751; Second Remodeling of Lincoln's Tomb; I & M Canal
#5  Jarrot Mansion (Cahokia); The Round Barn in Illinois
#6  Diners; Shawneetown Bank Restoration; Hi-Tech Archaeology

Vol. 6
#1 Elihu Washburne House (Galena); Lloyd Lewis House (Libertyville); Ft. de Chartres
#2  Douglas Tomb (Chicago); Winchester Historic District
#3  Reuben Moore's Farmington Home; Champaign Confectionery; Postmaster A. Lincoln
#4  Matthew T. Scott Home (Chenoa); Pit House Reconstructed (Cahokia Mounds)
#5  Celebrating Main Streets; R. R. Donnelley & Sons Calumet Plant (Chicago)
#6  Gallatin County's Half Moon Lick; Illinois Heritage Association

Vol. 7
#1 Dwight's Pioneer Gothic Church; Unity Temple (Oak Park); Reconstructing Cahokia Courthouse; Lincoln's Role in the Case of the Clockwork Cradle
#2  Eagle's Nest Artist Colony, 1898-1942 (Oregon vic.); Jenny Lind Chapel (Andover)
#3  They're Not All Fancy Houses; Illinois Glass Co. (Alton); Egyptian Revival Style; Clifton Moore Home (Clinton)
#4  Jubilee College; Andrew Cunningham Farm (Sugar Grove); Rockton Historic District
#5  Rock Island's Turn-of-the-Century Amusement Park; Evanston's Suburban Apartment Buildings; Hancock County's Cambre House
#6  Bloomington's David Davis Mansion; Lewis Thomas House (Montgomery Co.)

Vol. 8
#1  Downtown Bloomington's Landscape Shaped by Fire; St. James Catholic Church & Cemetery (Lemont vic.); Galena, 1820-1830
#2  Ford Airport Hangar (Lansing); Civil War Memorials
#3   Schulze Baking Company (Chicago); Rathje Mill Restoration (Peotone); Springfield Mine Rescue Station; Dwight Village Depot; Limestone in Lower Illinois River Valley
#4  Illinois Historic Preservation Agency Established; Certified Local Government Program Underway
#5  Hofmann Tower (Lyons); Wilmette's Bahai Temple of Light; Constructing the Illinois State House (Springfield)
#6  Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices (Springfield); State Parks Structures Listed in National Register

Vol. 9
#1 Jersey County Courthouse (Jerseyville); Archaeological Investigations at Galena's Washburne House; Chicago's Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments
#2  George Grant Elmslie:  Designer of Five Aurora Buildings; Mactown Historic District; Fort de Chartres Excavations
#3  Edwardsville's LeClaire Historic District; Chicago's Yondorff Hall
#4  Chicago's Black Metropolis; History and Archaeology along the I & M Canal
#5  Archaeological Study of Letourneau Home (Bourbonnais); Lebanon Historic District (St. Clair Co.); Tax Reform Act Aids Preservationists
#6  A.G. Becker Estate (Highland Park); Drake Farmstead Archaeology (Stephenson Co.); Knox College's Old Main (Galesburg)

Vol. 10
#1 Archaeological Study at the Dana-Thomas House (Springfield); Mundelein College Skyscraper; Golden's Exchange Bank
#2   Alexis Opera House (Mercer Co.); Carrollton Courthouse Square Historic District (Greene Co.); Illinois Cemetery Project "Unwrapped Buildings" (Quincy and Woodstock)
#3  French Colonial Village Excavated (Cahokia); Alexis Phelps House (Oquawka)
#4  Nathan Ricker at the University of Illinois; The "Castles" at Eastern Illinois (Charleston) and Illinois State (Normal) Universities; Fabyan's Fabulous Geneva Retreat
#5  The Country Estate in Illinois; Carriage House Excavations at Davis Mansion (Bloomington); Chicago's Glessner House
#6  Chicago's Auditorium Building; Illinois Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Springfield); Rockwell Mound (Havana)


Vol. 11
#1  Villa Kathrine (Quincy); Elgin Historic District; Illinois' First Capitol (Kaskaskia)
#2  Illinois Water Towers; Schlosser Home (Okawville); Dana House Restoration (Springfield); Rockford's Haight Village
#3   Bloomington's David Davis Mansion; Illinois-Indiana Boundary Marker Refurbished; Bloom Township High School Frescoes Restored (Chicago Heights); South Henderson Church & Cemetery
#4  Chicago's Orchestra Hall; Millikin Monuments & Millikin Place (Decatur)
#5  Quincy's Architectural Crossroad; Great Lakes Naval Training Station; Lockport's Gaylord Building; Stinson Memorial Library (Anna)
#6  Log Buildings Through a Camera Lens; Illinois Cemetery Project Completes Second Phase; Goddard Chapel (Marion)

Vol. 12
  #1  Chicago's Fairbanks, Morse & Company Headquarters; Spencer's Canton and Rock Island Masterpieces; Galena's Coville House Archaeology
#2  Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower (Chicago); Archaeology at Lincoln Home (Springfield)
#3  Chicago Theatre; Samuel Hitt's Mt. Morris Mansion; Peoria Landmarks Preserved; Bridges to the Past
#4  Kane County Landmark Program; The Rookery Building (Chicago)
#5  Marseilles Hydro Power Station; Kennicott's Grove (Glenview); The Pierre Martin House (Prairie du Pont)
#6  Winnetka's Crow Island School; Re-created Cahokian Houses Burned, Studied; Davis Mansion Restoration (Bloomington)

Vol. 13
#1   Kewanee's Woodland Palace; Collinsville's Miner's Institute Theater; "Gem City" House Sparkles Again (Quincy);
Albany Burial Mound Excavated
#2   The Illinois State Fair; Century-Old Barn Restored (Knox Co.); Property Tax Assessment Freeze; Cloud State Bank
and Aaron G. Cloud Home  (McLeansboro)
#3   University of Illinois Observatory (Champaign); Grange Hall (Jackson Co.); Richard Eells Home (Quincy); Barrington's Catlow Theatre
#4   Scales Mound Historic District (Jo Daviess Co.); Highland Park City Hall Cupola Restored; Augustana College's
Old Main (Rock Island);  Ragdale(Lake Forest)
#5 David Dows (Lake Michigan); Albert H. Sears Home (Plano); Dana-Thomas House Restored
#6  St. Charles Municipal Building; Chicago's Graceland Cemetery; Calhoun County Barn Preserved; Putnam County Courthouse

Vol. 14
#1  DuQuoin Fairgrounds; Greene County Poor Farm (Carrollton vicinity); The Joseph Steffens Home (Carroll Co.)
#2  Gail Bordon &  the Illinois Condensing Co. (Elgin); Maeystown; Shelbyville: Home of the Pickup Baler
#3  National Historic Preservation Act:  25th Anniversary
#4   Washington Square (Chicago); The National Survey; Zimmerman Site (Utica vic.); Brick Street Renovation in Illinois;
Century-Old Church Preserved (Plano)
#5   Vermont Masonic Hall; Peoria is Illinois' Newest Certified Local Government; Carl Sandburg State Historic Site visitors center; Joliet Steel Works Historic District      
#6 Wells-Burt (Lake Michigan); John Hay Home (Warsaw)

Vol. 15
#1  U-505 Submarine (Chicago); Dwight Building (Chicago); The I & M Canal
#2  Kewanee's Ryan Round Barn; Price Round Barn (Greene Co.); Maywood (Cook Co.); Yanda Log Cabin (Glen Carbon)
#3  Washington Park (Springfield); Greenup Commercial District; Lincoln and Sargent Farms (Lerna vic.)
#4  Nike Missile Bases; Historic Landscapes; Cook County Poor Farm Cemeteries
#5   Macoupin County Courthouse (Carlinville); Illinois Central Railroad Depot (Amboy); Richard Hagen, Archaeologist; Buel House (Golconda)
#6  Bloomington's David Davis Mansion Re-Opens; Society of Friends Meeting House (Putnam Co.)

Vol. 16
#1  Colwell's Department Store (Monmouth); McLean County Courthouse (Bloomington); George W. Terp:  Architect  
#2  Streibich Blacksmith Shop (Newman); County Buildings Saved in Knoxville; St. Mary's Church of Gilberts
#3  The Lustron Home;  Kaskaskia Bell; Flood of '93; Point School (Grant Park vicinity) 
#4  William Day Gates & The American Terra Cotta Ceramic Company; Chicago's Ridge Historic District
#5   Bloomington's White's Place;  Nauvoo's Icaria; Icarian Museum (Nauvoo); Flood Grants Awarded; Grafton Buildings
Nominated to the National Register    
#6 Index to Historic Illinois, Volumes 1-16

Vol. 17
#1 Pana's Chautauqua Days; "A Slow Motion Response to a 'Slow-Motion Disaster;'" Peoria's Peace and Harvest
#2  Jarrot Mansion Excavations (Cahokia); Talkin' With Tom Teague
#3    Chippiannock Cemetery (Rock Island);  From "Ineligible" to Unqualified Success (Sheridan Park); The U of I Dairy Barns (Urbana)  
#4  Lincoln Park (Chicago); Aurora's Preservation Plan
#5  The National Watch Company Observatory (Elgin); Art for the Appetite:  A Taste for Architecture
#6    Broadway Historic Area (Rock Island); Index to Historic Illinois, Volume 17, June 1994-April 1995    

Vol. 18
#1 Restoring the Rookery (Chicago); Illinois, Virginia, and the Information Superhighway
#2    Down on Main Street:  Downtown Renovations Looking Up; Prophetstown:  A Main Example; Covered Bridges of Illinois   #3 A Family Business Affair: "Snappy Service" in Central Illinois; Normal Theater Restoration; Structural Glass
#4  The South Fulton Churchhouse; New Network Benefits Museums Large & Small; The I & M Canal
#5  The Rock Island Arsenal; County Historical Society Takes In Tourist Cabin (McHenry Co.)
#6    Preservation in Oak Park; Index to Historic Illinois, Volume 18, June 1995-April 1996   

Vol. 19
#1  Hegeler-Carus Mansion (LaSalle); Bishop Hill State Historic Site
#2  The Millikin Homestead (Decatur); A Room with a Preservation View (Edwardsville ArchiRoom); Sugar Grove's Old Hotel
#3 The Peoria Automobile Club; George Fawn's Service Station Career (Williamsville)
#4 Legend of the Skies: The DC-3; The Home of Edward H. Bennett (Lake Forest)
#5   Vermont Architecture Inspires Local Preservationists; Route 66: Historical Road Leads to Museums; Atlanta Grain Elevator Rehabilitation     
#6   Preservation at Six Mile (Madison Co.); Macoupin Gallery; You Can Have That Old House and a Great  Room Too;

Index to Historic Illinois, Volume 19, June 1996-April 1997
   
Vol. 20
#1 The Frederick C. Robie House (Chicago); St. Mary's Church of Beaverville
#2    Preservation in Galesburg; Monks Mound (Cahokia Mounds)     
#3  The Kirk/Dillon Home (Sterling); Blackburn College's Pullman Car Buildings (Carlinville)
#4  The Hemingway House (Oak Park); Grass-Roots Preservation (McHenry Co.); Property Tax Assessment Freeze  
#5    Illinois Houses from Geo. F. Barber & Co.;  Moffet Family;  Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry Launches Effort to Save Sub              
#6   Springfield's Union Station; Railroad Depot Preservation Heurtley House (Oak Park); Index to Historic Illinois, Volume 20, June 1997-April 1998

Vol. 21
#1   Route 66; The Terre Haute Western Traction Company
#2  Frances Willard and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Restoration for Rest Cottage; New Life for Old Post Offices
#3  Franklin County Jail Museum (Benton); The Statue at Lowden State Park (Ogle Co.)
#4  Illinois and the Origins of the American Picture Postcard; Trobaugh-Good House (Macon Co.)
#5   St. Charles's Hotel Baker; George Davenport House (Rock Island); Green Ridge Rediscovered (Macoupin Co)
#6   Illinois Industrial School for Girls (Park Ridge); Lincoln Colored Home (Springfield); Index to Historic Illinois, Volume 21, June 1998-April 1999  

Vol. 22
#1  Chicago's Boyce Building; Paving the Way for Preservation (Route 66)
#2  Legacy of Vishnu Springs (McDonough Co.); Glenview Naval Air Station
#3  Grosse Point Lighthouse (Evanston); Bridging the Gap in Lake Forest
#4  Geneva's Riverbank Laboratories; Building Blocks of Bishop Hill; Galena's Old Market House
#5  Rediscovery and Reconstruction of Apple River Fort (Jo Daviess Co.); Aurora Railroad Roundhouse and Hotel Rehabbed
#6   Special Issue: The Underground Railroad in Illinois; Owen Lovejoy: Illinois Abolitionist; Index to Historic Illinois, Volume 22, June 1999-April 2000  

Vol. 23
#1  The Fife Opera House (Palestine); Opera House Phenomenon; Duane Ulmer: Fulton County Mechanic & Auto Dealer
#2   The P-51D Mustang; Taming the 8th Air Force Mustang: A Pilot's Perspective; North American Aviation's P-51D-NA25
44-73287 Worry Bird; Establishing Local Preservation Ordinances (Part 1)
#3  Domestic-Style Gas Station: The 419 Building (Chicago); Establishing Local Preservation Ordinances (Part 2); Delavan Bridge
#4   Peoria's Greenhut Memorial Hall; John Benedict Greenhut; Colonel John Bryner; Hidden Hulls Exposed (Grundy Co.); The Mustangs Flew in the Pacific, Too
#5   Chicago's Quigley Preparatory Seminary; George Cardinal Mundelein; Hotel LaSalle Parking Garage (Chicago); Rose Hotel State Historic Site (Elizabethtown); Apple River Fort State Historic Site (Elizabeth)
#6  Preservation in Orangeville; Orangeville Celebrates 150 Years; Index to Historic Illinois, Volume 23, June 2000-April 2001

Vol. 24
#1   Meadowland Farm (Lake Forest); Camp Logan National Guard Rifle Range (Waukegan vicinity)
#2   Rockford's Coronado Theatre; Reliance Building Restored for Reuse (Chicago)
#3   Modest Bungalow Makes Metropolitan History (Chicago); Clean & Easy Living: The Lustron Still Offers It; The Country Corners at Withrows Garage in Sherman
#4  Meis Van Mies van der Rohe's Crown Hall (Chicago); Can Uptown Square Come Full Circle (Chicago)
#5   Leslie E. Keeley Institute (Dwight); The Warm Air Research Residence (Urbana)
#6   The Streamliner in Illinois; Detoured Train Follows Historic Train Route: The Ghost of the Green Diamond; Towanda's Historic Route 66; Index to Historic Illinois, Volume 24, June 2001-April 2002

Vol. 25
#1 Special 25th Anniversary Issue
#2   The Sears Homes; Sears was the Standard in Three Illinois Communities; Are You Living in a Sears Home? Historic Gardening at the Davis Mansion
#3  Principia College; Tax Freeze Turns Twenty; Tax Freeze Case Study 1 (Rock Island); Case Study 2 (Alton); Case Study 3 (Ft. Sheridan)
#4  Historic Sites in Jersey County; Wilmette's Chicago & North Western Railroad Depot;
#5  Illinois Rail Bridges Span Space and Time; Illinois Bridge Types; Picturing the Past (Lincoln)
#6  HAARGIS--Historic Architecture and Archaeology Geographic Information System; The Automatic Electric Company; Index to Historic Illinois, Volume 25, June 2002-April 2003  

Vol. 26
#1  St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Sheffield); The Train Depot's Station in Illinois History
#2   Chicago's Motor Row Historic District; The Canton Toll House
#3   Springfield's Uptown Garage; Immortality in Lewistown: Oak Hill Cemetery
#4  Czechs Make a Home in Edwardsville: The Narodni Sin; John Deere's Legacy in Illinois; John Deere Historic Site
#5   Chicago’s Holy Family Church; The Illinois Traction System; William B. McKinley; An Orange-Car Ride to a Heavenly Christmas
#6  Rock Village and the Potawatomi; Henry Hobson Richardson and the Glessners; Index to Historic Illinois, Volume 26, June 2003-April 2004

Vol. 27
#1   Black Gold Fueled Development of Southern Illinois; Coal Mining History Has Gone Underground; From the Mine to the Furnace; Rossville Revisited
#2   19th-Century State Hospital Architecture (Jacksonville, Kankakee, Peoria); Mazon Creek Fossil Beds; Bradley University’s Bygone Athletic Field
#3   Lincoln School (ClarkCo.); Vachel Lindsay; Lindsay’s Visual Art; Japanese Jackpot Discovered in La Salle: Art Treasures at the Hegeler-Carus Mansion
#4   Greenville College a Legacy to Local Leaders; Greenville Public Library; Music Under the Stars at Orion; A Picture of Flat Rock; The Girard Auto Campground
#5   A Naturalized Politician: The Life of Gustave Koerner; A Wabash River Town's Asset: The Darwin Ferry
#6   Chicago’s Garden Homes District; Documentation Project “Saves” Historic Structures (Bloomington); Dale Clatfelter’s Auto Dealership; Index to Historic Illinois, Volume 27, June 2004-April 2005

Vol. 28
#1  Chicago’s South Water Market; The Illinois Traction System and the Prairie Landscape (Vermilion Co.); Documentation Project “Saves” Historic Structures (Elgin); U-505 Submarine Resurfaces
#2  One Governor’s Legacy to Higher Education: Altgeld’s Castles; Tracking the Prairie State’s Railroad Towns
#3   Aurora’s Cell Phone Tour; Historic (Fife) Opera House Holds an Artistic Gold Mine (Palestine); The Morrow Plots Weather Station (Urbana)
#4  Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Dome (Carbondale); The Woodworth Hotel (Robinson); Robinson’s Visionary: A. P. Woodworth
#5  An Early Illinois Army Base: Cantonment Wilkinson (Pulaski Co.); Springfield’s Union Station An Early Illinois Army Base: Cantonment Wilkinson (Pulaski Co.); Springfield’s Union Station
#6   The Meskers’ Sheet-Metal Businesses; The Three Meskers; Got Mesker?; Index to Historic Illinois, Volume 28, June 2005-April 2006

Vol. 29
#1   Chicago’s Central Park Theater; Bismarck’s Storied Business Building; Roy Handell: His Community’s Photographer; The Street of Forty Doors: Alta Vista Terrace (Chicago)
#2  American Dream by Mail Order: Sears Houses in Aurora; Buildings a By-Product of Resource Management: Water Diversion in Chicago
#3   The St. Charles Heritage Center; Richard Brownfield Gray, Architect; Oregon’s Chana School
#4   The Illinois Central Railroad; Keeping History Afloat at Lincoln’s New Salem: The Talisman
#5  The “Man from Libertyville”: Adlai Stevenson II; Polo’s Birth by Fire: The Buffalo Grove Lime Kiln
#6  The Chicago Post Office; The Obee House (Highland Park); Index to Historic Illinois, Volume 29, June 2006-April 2007

Vol. 30
#1   Keeping Time at Westclox (Peru); The Face Behind the Clocks; A Look at the Westclox Plant; The Dark Side of Illumination
#2   Sustaining the Wings: Chanute Field (Rantoul); Aviation Pioneer: Octave Chanute; Bohemians and Mexicans on Common Ground: Pilsen Historic District, Chicago
#3   The Peoria YWCA; Dixon’s Lowell Park
#4  The Williamson County Jail; The Brown Shoe Company Building (Litchfield); The “Upstairs Downtown” Program
#5   Paradise on the Prairie: The Robert Allerton Estate (Monticello); Allerton Estate Hosts Groundbreaking Public Broadcasting Conferences; Short-Line Railroads in Illinois
#6   The Green Mill (Chicago); Difficult to Pigeonhole Menard Home Outbuilding; Pierre Menard and His Elegant Home; Dating the Menard Home; Mesker Seekers Find Success; Index to Historic Illinois, Volume 30, June 2007-April 2008

Vol. 31
#1 Greenup: A River, A Road, and A Rail Run Through It; Historical Weather Data Contributes to Current Climate Debate;
Camp Butler National Cemetery
#2   Moses King Brick & Tile Works (Colchester); McKendree University’s Civil War Story (Lebanon); A Metropolitan Artists’ Colony: West Burton Place Historic District (Chicago)
#3   Dement-Zinser House (Washington); Denhart Bank (Washington); Cemetery Preservation Keeps History Alive; Effingham’s Benwood Hotel; Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Bridge (Vermilion County)

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