WAND: Illinois State Museum launches online database of 100 oral histories of Route 66. “The Illinois State Museum is launching an online database of 100 oral histories about Route 66. The Route 66 Oral History Project database includes video-recorded interviews and world-searchable written transcriptions.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/06/wand-illinois-state-museum-launches-online-database-of-100-oral-histories-of-route-66/

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Illinois Newspaper Project Receives NEH Grant. “The Illinois Newspaper Project (INP) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library has received a grant of $324,189 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), to digitize 100,000 pages of historical Illinois newspapers, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/21/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-illinois-newspaper-project-receives-neh-grant/

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: What was life in Chicago like in 2000? . “From January to December that year, more than 200 photographers, videographers and journalists captured moments like these to create a time capsule of life in Chicago at the turn of the millennium. The project, called CITY 2000, resulted in more than 500,000 images and nearly 800 audio and video recordings… […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/05/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-what-was-life-in-chicago-like-in-2000/

Do you have items that tell the story of how your family came to Madison County? We'd love to take a look! The Madison County Historical Society, in collaboration with SIUE's IRIS Center and Department of History, is hosting a History Harvest on the theme of migration and immigration.

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