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.
The name Italia, probably a Graecized form of Italic Vitelia (='calf land'), was originally restricted to the southern half of the 'toe' but was gradually extended. By 450 B.C. It meant the region subsequently inhabited by the Bruttii; by 400 it embraced Lucania as well. Campania was included after ...
