The Illinois State Archives is the official depository for those records of government, both state and local, which have been appraised to have long-term legal, administrative, historical, or other research values. The archival records of state government are housed at the Margaret Cross Norton Building in Springfield. All three branches of state government are represented in 2,443 record series arranged under 191 different offices, departments, divisions, institutions, boards, the legislature, the supreme court, and several federal agencies whose records were transferred officially to the state of Illinois. The archives building contains more than 53,000 cubic feet of state governmental records. The objects of these records were both practical and varied, and as a consequence their contents are extremely diverse.
Access is at the record group and record series levels and is provided by source and by subject.
This publication is updated periodically. Macintosh and Windows versions of Acrobat Reader may be downloaded free of charge from Adobe. Click here to find out how to obtain the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 or later. Located on seven state university campuses, regional depositories house and service those records of local governments which have been appraised as having long-term values and have been transferred to the Archives' custody.