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Resources in This Category

• Illinois Historic Preservation Agency

  http://www.illinois.gov/ihpa/
  collecting, preserving, and interpreting the historical heritage and culture of the state of Illinois

• Illinois History Pages

  http://illinois.outfitters.com/illinois/history/
  Courtesy of Infobahn Outfitters.

• Illinois Maps

  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/illinois.html
  The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.

• Illinois State Museum

  http://www.museum.state.il.us/
  Fine art, anthropology, and natural history come together.

• Protestant Exiles from Madeira in Illinois

  http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/portam/exiles.html
  A group of religious exiles from Madeira (Portuguese islands off the coast of Morocco) settled in Illinois in the 1850s. This website chronicles this episode and identifies some place names of probable Portuguese origin.

• The Page of Everything Frith

  http://thurmanfrith.tripod.com/
  Profiles the life and crimes of Thurman Kingsbury Thriff, who was convicted for two murders in 1978.

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