Illinois

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Background • Federal Census Summary • Counties • Links to State ResourcesBackground

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Illinois was included in the Northwest Territory established in 1787 and then in Indiana Territory (1800). Illinois Territory was established in 1809, and included virtually all of present-day Wisconsin and portions of Minnesota and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Illinois was admitted as a State on December 3, 1818 with essentially its present boundaries.

Federal Census Summary

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In 1790 the Northwest Territory had no census coverage. The population shown for 1800 is the total of two counties and one community in present-day Illinois, at that time part of Indiana Territory. Knox County, Indiana Territory, also included some population in what is now Illinois. In 1810, the returns for the two counties of Illinois Territory included some settlements in present-day Wisconsin. The northern part of the State was not fully covered by the census until 1830.

1790: ---	1800: 2,458	1810: 12,282	1820: 55,211	1830: 157,445	1840: 476,183	1850: 851,470	1860: 1,711,951
1870: 2,539,891	1880: 3,077,871	1890: 3,826,352	1900: 4,821,550	1910: 5,638,591	1920: 6,485,280	1930: 7,630,654	1940: 7,897,241
1950: 8,712,176	1960: 10,081,158	1970: 11,113,976	1980: 11,426,518	1990: 11,430,602	2000: 12,419,293

Counties
Adams Alexander Bond Boone Brown Bureau Calhoun Carroll Cass Champaign Christian Clark Clay Clinton Coles Cook Crawford Cumberland DeKalb De Witt Douglas DuPage Edgar Edwards Effingham	Fayette Ford Franklin Fulton Gallatin Greene Grundy Hamilton Hancock Hardin Henderson Henry Iroquois Jackson Jasper Jefferson Jersey Jo Daviess Johnson Kane Kankakee Kendall Knox Lake La Salle	Lawrence Lee Livingston Logan McDonough McHenry McLean Macon Macoupin Madison Marion Marshall Mason Massac Menard Mercer Monroe Montgomery Morgan Moultrie Ogle Peoria Perry Piatt Pike Pope	Pulaski Putnam Randolph Richland Rock Island St. Clair Saline Sangamon Schuyler Scott Shelby Stark Stephenson Tazewell Union Vermilion Wabash Warren Washington Wayne White Whiteside Will Williamson Winnebago Woodford

State Resources

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Welcome to the Illinois State Archives
... ILLINOIS STATE ARCHIVES GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH ILLINOIS STATE ARCHIVES FEE SCHEDULE DESCRIPTIVE INVENTORY ... ARCHIVES OF THE STATE OF ...
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Illinois Genealogy Trails State Data
... from the 1850 Census - State-wide Illinois Post Office Directory 1884 1893 ... The History of Illinois' ...
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Illinois State Archives Databases
... Project of the Illinois State Archives   Illinois Statewide Death Index (1916–1950 ... Index (1888–1960) Records at Illinois ...
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Illinois State Archives Databases
... Project of the Illinois State Archives   Illinois Statewide Death Index (1916–1950 ... Index (1888–1960) Records at Illinois ...
http://www.ilsos.net/departments/archives/databases.html

Illinois Genealogy and History presented by Illinois Trails, now part of the Genealogy Trails Histor
... The History of Illinois' State Capitols Roster of the ... always, contact Kim Kim Torp, Illinois Genealogy Trails ...
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Welcome to the Illinois State Archives
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http://www.ilsos.net/departments/archives/archives.html

State Projects Page
State Projects Page State Tombstone Transcription Projects Alabama Carolyn ... charge of your state to arrange sending ...
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cemetery/registry.html

The Primitive Baptist Library
... inactive) in the State of Illinois (and other states ... Ministers in Hancock County, ...
http://www.carthage.lib.il.us/community/churches/primbap/pbl.html

POORHOUSE HISTORY by state
... POORHOUSE HISTORY by state POORHOUSE HISTORY by state   TABLE OF ILLINOIS ... STATES Poorhouse HISTORY CEMETERIES by State RECORDS by
http://www.poorhousestory.com/poorhouses_in_illinois.htm

Illinois Genealogy Trails State Data
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References

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Forstall, Richard L., Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, 1996.

Perry, Marc J., et. al., Population Change and Distribution: Census 2000 Brief, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, 2001.