The Genealogy Unit of the Cook County Clerk's Bureau of Vital Records provides non-certified
versions of birth, death and marriage records for the purpose of genealogical research.
Records found on this site are for Chicago and Cook County dating back to 1872.
Another cooK county site is their Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County Archives naturalization petitions covering the years 1871 to 1929. More than 400,000 of these records are Declarations of Intention.
An Italian novel for kids called "La Freccia Azzurra" (The Blue Arrow) says that all the children in the world wait for Christmas Eve to get presents from Santa Clause, but Italian kids are the luckiest in the world because they get presents again on the 6th of January by the Befana. Who is the Befa...
