Two Volumes • 780 Pages • Portraits

Hardcover • 5.5 x 8.5 Page Size • Illinois Place Index • Copyright 2008

ISBN 10 digit 1878592602 • ISBN 13 digit 9781878592606

Set price $165.00

ILLINOIS BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY is the definitive biographical reference on Illinois. The persons profiled were chosen from various vocations. Activists, artists, authors, athletes, educators, business leaders, entertainers, historians, inventors, journalists, military figures, musicians, politicians, philanthropists, religious leaders and many other vocations. The Place Index will make it easy to research people from cities or towns in Illinois. 

The editorial content of the work is well balanced over all time periods, as well as gender and political affiliations. The work contains historical and contemporary figures.

Minority studies are of special interest in schools today.  February is Black History Month and November is National American Indian Heritage Month.  Biographies on Native Americans and African Americans are included in this reference work for research on minority studies. 

March is National Women’s History Month and ILLINOIS BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY includes biographies on hundreds of women from various vocations, ethnicity and time periods.

ILLINOIS BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY  Edition will be used year round by students and teachers on the various studies on Illinois history, Black history, American Indian history and Women’s history.

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