General:
African-American Baptist Annual Reports, 1865-1990s. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1999. Illinois churches and associations. /Microfilm 42/

Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society. Constitution. Chicago, IL: Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society, 1984. 7p. /GC 977.302 C43af/

Armfield, Felix L. Black Life in West Central Illinois. Chicago, IL: Arcadia Publishing, 2001. 128p. Photographs. Black America Series. /GC 977.301 M14ar/

Materson, Lisa Gail. Respectable Partisans: African American Women in Electoral Politics, 1877 to 1936. Los Angeles, CA: L. G. Materson, 2000. 195p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.3 M419re/

Miller, Edward A., Jr. The Black Civil War Soldiers of Illinois: The Story of the Twenty-ninth U.S. Colored Infantry. Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 1998. 267p. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.34 IL5mil/

Muelder, Owen W. The Underground Railroad in Western Illinois. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2008. 191p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.3 M887u/

The Patricia Liddell Researchers News Journal. Chicago, IL: Patricia Liddell Researchers, 1991-. /Periodical/

Pirtle, Carol. Escape Betwixt Two Suns: A True Tale of the Underground Railroad in Illinois. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. 141p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.301 R15pa/

Portwood, Shirley Motley. Tell Us A Story: An African American Family in the Heartland. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. 242p. Genealogical Chart. Photograph. /GC 977.302 Sp84pn/

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. John Augustine Washington papers, 1824-1860. /Series M, Part 6, Roll 14/

Simeone, James. Democracy and Slavery in Frontier Illinois: The Bottomland Republic. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000. 289p. Bibliography. Index. Map. Notes. /GC 977.3 Si45de/

Surname Directory, 2004. Chicago, IL: Patricia Liddell Researchers, Chicago Chapter, Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, 2004. 57p. Index. /GC 977.302 C43pl, 2004/

Turner, Glennette Tilley. The Underground Railroad in Illinois. Glen Ellyn, IL: Newman Educational Publishing, 2001. 289p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Photographs. /GC 977.3 T851un/

Wilbur H. Siebert Collection: Microfilm Edition. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society, 2001. Underground Railroad. /Microfilm Rolls 1-3/

Zucker, Charles N. The Free Negro Question: Race Relations in Ante-Bellum Illinois, 1801-1860. Evanston, IL: C. N. Zucker, 1972. 403p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.3 Z831fr/

Cook County:
1927 Intercollegian Wonder Book or 1779 - The Negro in Chicago - 1927. Chicago, IL: The Washington Intercollegiate Club, 1927. 232p. /GC 977.302 C43neg V.1/

Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society of Chicago Newsletter. Chicago, IL: Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society of Chicago, v.1-, 1980-. /GC 977.302 C43afa/

Black, Ford S. Black's Blue Book: Business and Professional Directory (Chicago). Chicago: s. n., 1918, 1919, 1921, 1923/4. /GC 977.302 C43blu/

Blair, Cynthia Marie. Vicious Commerce: African American Women's Sex Work and the Transformation of Urban Space in Chicago, 1850-1915. Cambridge, MA: C. M. Blair, 1999. 434p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. /GC 977.302 C43blc/

Colored People's Blue-Book and Business Directory of Chicago, IL, 1905. Chicago: Celerity Printing Company, 1905. 140p. /GC 977.302 C43co/

Davis-Hayes, Kenya. Lessons of Place: The Creation of Physical and Curricular Segregation in Chicago Between 1910 and 1925. West Lafayette, IN: K. Davis-Hayes, 2005. 200p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.302 C43davi/

Dorsey, James. Up South: Blacks in Chicago's Suburbs, 1719-1983. Bristol, IN: Wyndham Hall Press, Inc., 1986. 113p. Notes. /GC 977.302 C43do/

Drake, St. Clair and Horace R. Cayton. Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1993. 858p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 977.302 C43dra/

Green, Adam. Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. 306p. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.302 C43grc/

Grossman, James R. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1989. 384p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.302 C43grj/

Hartfield, Ronne. Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. 178p. Photographs. /GC 977.302 C43har/

Lerner, Daniel J. Visions of a Sporting City: "Shadowball" and Black Chicago, 1887-1952. Lansing, MI: D. J. Lerner, 2002. 242p. Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.302 C43Ler/

Mahoney, Olivia. Douglas/Grand Boulevard: A Chicago Neighborhood. Chicago, IL: Arcadia Publishing, 2001. 128p. Photographs. Images of America Series. /GC 977.302 C43mah/

Ogden, Mary Elaine. The Chicago Negro Community: A Statistical Description. Chicago: W. P. A., 1939(?). 246p. Index. Bibliography. /GC 977.302 C43un/

Our Heritage: Family Stories. Chicago: Heritage Publishing Consultants, 2010. 386p. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. /GC 977.302 C43ou/

Reed, Christopher Robert. Black Chicago's First Century, Volume 1, 1833-1900. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2005. 582p. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.302 C43ree/

Reed, Christopher Robert. The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920-1929. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2011. 271p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 977.302 C43rc/

Rice, Myiti Sengstacke. Chicago Defender. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2012. 127p. Illustrations. Photographs. Images of America Series. /GC 977.302 C43ric/

Sideman, Robert A. . African Americans in Glencoe: The Little Migration. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2009. 127p. Illustrations. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.302 G48si/

Strickland, Arvarh E. History of the Chicago Urban League. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2001. 287p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 977.302 C43str/

Thompson, Lowell D. African Americans in Chicago. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2012. 127p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographs. Images of America Series. /GC 977.302 C43tl/

Weems, Robert E., Jr. Black Business in the Black Metropolis: The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925-1985. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996. 158p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. Tables. /GC 977.302 C43we/

Gallatin County:
Blackmore, Jacqueline Yvonne. African Americans and Race Relations in Gallatin County, Illinois from the Eighteenth Century to 1870. DeKalb, IL: J. Y. Blackmore, 1996. 302p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 977.301 G13bl/

Musgrave, Jon. Slaves, Salt, Sex & Mr. Crenshaw: The Real Story of the Old Slave House and America's Reverse Underground R.R. Marion, IL: IllinoisHistory.com, 2004. 512p. Appendices. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.3 M972s/

Kane County:
Buck, Dennis. From Slavery to Glory: African Americans Come to Aurora, Illinois, 1850-1920. Aurora, IL: Aurora Historical Society, 2005. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 977.302 Au68bu/

Sutton, Raleigh. The African American Heritage of Elgin, Illinois and the Greater Kane County Area: A Genealogy of Most of the First Families from the Days as Contrabands to the Present Time(1856-1996. Elgin, IL: R. Sutton, 1996. 185p. "A Collection of Family Relationships." /GC 977.301 K13s/

McLean County:
Black Families of Normal, Illinois: Genealogies of Long-Time Residents of the Town of Normal. [Levant, ME: [B.E. Bryan], [2009]. 310p. /GC 977.302 N78BL/

Washington, Caribel. African-American Residents of Bloomington-Normal from the Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, City Directories, 1885-1917. Bloomington, IL: McLean County Genealogical Society, 2002. 90p. Bibliography. /GC 977.302 B63cy/

Peoria County:
Smallwood, Arwin D., Ph.D. Blacks at Bradley, 1897-2000. Chicago, IL: Arcadia Publishing, 2001. 128p. Photographs. Black America Series. /GC 977.302 P39ry/

Rock Island County:
McAdams, William H. Death Index: African-Americans and Others in Rock Island, Illinois Area. S. l: s.n., 200-. Vols. 1-9. /GC 977.301 R59a/

Saint Clair County:
Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita. America's First Black Town: Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2000. 276p. Index. Notes. Tables. /GC 977.301 L51ch/

Lumpkins, Charles L. American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2008. 312p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.203 Ea8Luc/

Lumpkins, Charles L. Black East St. Louis: Politics and Economy in a Border City, 1860-1945. University Park, PA: C. L. Lumpkins, 2006. 358p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 977.302 Ea8Lu/

Will County:
Rajala, Hope. Black and White Together. Lockport, IL: Will County Historical Society, 2004. 25p. /GC 977.301 W66rh/

Winnebago County:
Molyneaux, John L. African Americans in Early in Early Rockford, 1834-1871. Rockford, IL: Rockford Public Library, 2000. 161p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 977.302 R62mo/