Online Resources in Alphabetical Order
The Insurance Information Source
Redecorating or remodeling your home is a lot of work. It helps if you start with a good plan, but it can be hard to visualize everything in different places. This tool lets you build a 3-D model of your home. You can then fill it with furniture and decorations. You can move walls around. When you’re done, fly through the model to see how you like.
This website empowers Illinois’ booming Hispanic population with free self-help legal resources. Hispanics in Illinois unable to afford an attorney now have an online Spanish-language resource to help them resolve their legal problems 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The web has revolutionized the way we make and consume video. More video is stored on YouTube than ever existed before the site and you can watch it all online, but maybe you would like to download your favorites. You could watch them online or carry them on an iPod. This site will convert YouTube videos to the proper format. You can download them to your computer.
Ben’s Guide to U. S. Government
This site provides learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers. These resources will teach how our government works. Ben’s Guide provides additional links to U.S. Government Web sites developed for kids.
We often think of English as the common language online. Most of the sites you visit seem to confirm this, but the web is a global destination. You’ll find content in every language imaginable. If you run into a foreign-language site, grab the URL and head here. Bing can translate between dozens of languages.
Your pathway to career success. Tools to help job seekers, students, businesses, and career professionals. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.
At every stage of the financial aid process, ISAC is there, acting as a centralized source of information and guidance and offering a comprehensive array of programs and services.
These publications include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. The Background Notes are updated/revised by the Office of Electronic Information and Publications of the Bureau of Public Affairs as they are received from the State Department’s regional bureaus.
A comprehensive, categorized & cross-referenced list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online.
East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging
“We are dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for Older Americans and their families by providing information about and access to a variety of services in their community in the 16 counties of East Central Illinois”
(This database is paid for by the library for our patrons and requires a password. Call or come by the library for the password.)
A subscription service that provides several search tools for accessing information stored in databases. You can search for records pertaining to a topic of interest, then print, email, save, export, and cite those records.
Check new and used car values, read car reviews, get tips, and more.
Health Information for the whole family
For most of us, records of our ancestors provide a link to our past. An army of volunteers from around the world is now working to make these records available to everyone. Using FamilySearch.org, anyone who wants to help preserve this valuable family information can easily extract it from historical records and provide free searchable indexes. All of this can be done from the convenience of our own homes.
The core mission of Keeping America Informed, dated to 1813 when Congress determined to make information regarding the work of the three branches of Government available to all Americans. The U.S Government Printing Office (GPO) provides publishing and dissemination services for the official and authentic government publications to Congress, Federal agencies, Federal depository libraries, and the American public.
The FTC’s mission is to prevent business practices that are anticompetitive or deceptive or unfair to consumers; to enhance informed consumer choice and public understanding of the competitive process; and to accomplish this without unduly burdening legitimate business activity. This site contains information identity theft, free annual credit reports, etc.
Established in 1956, and today supported by more than 600 foundations, the Foundation Center is the nation’s leading authority on philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grant makers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust.
This is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. We live in a digital world, but we still have to deal with paper documents occasionally. You can use a scanner to get them onto your computer, but you don’t always have one nearby. This site is a nice workaround if you’re in a jam. Take a photo of the document and upload it to the site. It will extract the text. You can paste it into a new file for editing.
Healthfinder
A government website where you will find information and tools to help you and those you care about stay healthy. There are resources on a wide range of health topics selected from over 1,600 government and non-profit organizations to bring you the best, most reliable health information on the Internet.
Illinois Ancestors Tombstone Project
Many tombstones are disappearing fast and as a result, valuable history is in danger of being lost forever. As a way of preserving this history, we’re taking photos of as many tombstones in Illinois cemeteries as we can.
The Attorney General is the state’s chief legal officer and is responsible for protecting the public interest of the state and its people. The Attorney General provides services that cover a broad range of issues, reaching every corner of Illinois. This site contains hotline numbers for consumer fraud and identity theft.
This site is managed by a group of volunteers working together to provide free genealogy websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States.
Illinois Harvest is a unique service that provides access to publicly available online materials about or related to Illinois.
Welcome to the State of Illinois Health and Wellness one-stop source for your healthcare needs. Here, parents can sign up their children for the state’s affordable health insurance programs, seniors can sign up for one of our affordable prescription drug programs, women can find information on free breast and cervical cancer screenings, and much more.
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
The Illinois Historic Preservation Agency (IHPA) operates over 60 historic sites and memorials from U.S. Grant’s home in Galena to the Kincaid Mounds near Unionville covering more than 10,000 years of Illinois History.
Illinois Labor Market Information
Your source for Illinois labor market information
McLean County Legal Information
Illinois State Archives Online Databases
Check car values and more.
Extensive information on over 650 diseases and conditions from the National Institutes for Health and other trusted sources. Also available: lists of hospitals and physicians; a medical encyclopedia and dictionary; health information; in Spanish; information on prescription and nonprescription drugs; and links to thousands of clinical trials.
You want your writing to look its best. It could be a college research paper or a business report. It always helps to have someone else look it over, but you don’t always have someone to be your proofer. That’s where Paper Rater comes in. It will check your grammer and style. It also tests for signs of plagiarism.
The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.
RootsWeb is part of Ancestry.com – which is a pay-for-access site – but RootsWeb is free. It is a series of message boards that allow you to submit a query to others who may be researching a particular surname or have family information to share. There are message boards for specific surnames, locations, countries, etc.
Simpkins Military History Museum
Located in Heyworth, Illinois, this is the private collection belonging to Gary Simpkins. He started collecting when he was 12 years old. Gary is a veteran of the Vietmam war.
The Argus @ Illinois Wesleyan University
This collection consists of The Argus and ten earlier titles published by students and alumni of Illinois Wesleyan University. These records hold the opinions and artistry of students, alumni, faculty and administrators in the form of news about campus events, orations and essays spanning nearly every year from 1870 to the present.
Worldwide library catalog that includes books, manuscripts, maps, computer programs, musical scores, film, newspapers, journals and magazines, and everything else found in a library.
