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Chicago City Council Proceedings Files Index,
1833–1871

Compiled by the Illinois Regional Archives Depository System


This database provides access to the working papers of the Chicago City Council for the period before the Great Fire. Until their rediscovery in 1983, these files were presumed to have been destroyed in that catastrophe. The database contains entries for 35,650 different files. The University of Illinois at Chicago has made this database available for online searches.

Each entry shows the title of the file and a control number containing the fiscal year, file number, filing month and day.

The database may be searched by a single subject term, by a combination of two subject terms with the "and" operator, and by date.
 


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