Illinois Heartland Library System
Illinois Heartland Library System
In the early 1980s, Allerton Public Library created audiocassettes interviewing prominent local citizens. Subsequently the cassettes were digitized to CD and their information was added to the IHLS Digital Gems website.
Non-museum quality replicas and art objects from around the world are available for loan to educators from the Giertz Education Center at Krannert Art Museum. The items are intended to be touched and examined closely by students, leading to a more complete understanding of the culture from which the object comes.
In 1941, the 99th Pursuit Squadron was activated by Chanute Field in Rantoul, IL, becoming the first all-black fighter squadron in the U.S. Army Air Corps. William R. Thompson, trained at Chanute Field as an armaments officer, and then became one of the squadron's first black officers. Thompson and the 99th Pursuit Squadron …
Our goal is to provide a space where libraries and other agencies, such as genealogical societies, museums, and archives, can digitize and provide access to historically significant materials in a web-based environment.
". . .it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country." -- Thomas Jefferson
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