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Ancestry is allowing temporary remote access; enter your library card to get started. A premier genealogy resource only available for In-library use. Includes U.S. and worldwide census, immigration, military, and vital records collections.
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Bringing the diversity and history of the USA to life in a beautifully-illustrated resource. Covers all 50 states, five territories and the District of Columbia. Information includes local cuisine, animals & plants, history, government & politics, and historical map collections.
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From World Book, a comprehensive Spanish-language encyclopedia that includes more than 140,000 articles, and thousands of images, maps, videos, animations, sounds, and interactive media.
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Contains biographical information on more than 650,000 individuals from around the world and throughout history. Includes articles and images from books, magazines, and newspapers.
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Features reviews, recommendations, readalikes, author bios and interviews, resources for book clubs, and much more. Subscribe to their twice monthly newsletter.
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Provides live tutoring help from 2 p.m. - 11 p.m, plus lessons and practice tests for kids, teens, and adults on school and career topics.
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Contains company profiles, brand and industry information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, and articles.
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Contains consumer ratings on businesses and services for the Chicago metro area. Search for plumbers, roofers, doctors, dentists, and more. Note: registration is required.
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A publication of the Chicago History Museum. Coverage is from 1970 to current. Each issue has three to four articles covering some aspect of the history of Chicago.
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From World Book, uses dramatic readings of plays to help students gain reading fluency, understand core concepts, and internalize content. Activities, lesson plans, and mini-inquiry projects tie to curriculum correlations.
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Spanish-language articles, media, and websites for Spanish language learners from the World Book.
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Contains journal articles and reports on education topics. From the Institute of Education Sciences.
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Worldwide genealogical records. Access to images and documents are only available at the library.
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From Weiss Ratings & Grey House Publishing find financial strength ratings of banks, credit unions & insurance companies; buy-hold-sell ratings of thousands of investment instruments and more.
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A collection of databases available via the Illinois State Library. Search IllinoisCatalog for materials available throughout our state or WorldCat for materials from libraries across the country.
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Contains literature criticism, biographies, work/topic overviews, reviews, and full text of many literary works.
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Provides simultaneous searching of all Gale products. Find reference books plus newspaper and magazine articles, academic journals, images, audio, and more.
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Contains over 400 full-text reference eBooks including encyclopedias and almanacs. Use Power Search to find reference books from this database plus articles from Gale's Academic OneFile and General OneFile.
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Glassdoor holds a growing database of millions of company reviews, CEO approval ratings, salary reports, interview reviews and questions, benefits reviews, office photos and more. Unlike other jobs sites, all of this information is entirely shared by those who know a company best — the employees.
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The world’s most extensive country-by-country resource for learning about culture, travel, history, customs, and language. Profiles are available for 175 different countries and include information on business customs, travel essentials, food, and transportation.
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Contains up-to-date material on diseases and conditions, alternative medicine, drugs, and herbal remedies.
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Available for in-library use only. Find stock market news and analysis including research, charts, and videos. Investor's Business Daily website.
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Offers World Book's excellent editorial content and rich media in French.
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Contains literary criticism, author biographies, bibliographies, work overviews and explanations, websites, and journal articles.
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Contains articles on medicine, dentistry, and nursing.
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A course specifically created to help you succeed on the United States Citizenship Test. If you already have a Pronunciator login, you can use it to login to ProCitizen.
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More than 4,000 language learning combinations at your finger tips! Courses are offered in your native tongue and you can learn whatever language you choose. Live, teacher led conversation groups are offered in many languages. Want to prepare to be a citizen? Try ProCitizen as well.
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Search public records for new homeowners, new businesses, foreclosures, and bankruptcies for Illinois. Includes Check Illinois database for background check information.
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Directory of over 25 million U.S. and Canadian businesses (including historical data) and 89 million residential phone numbers. Search by industry or yellow page heading.
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A huge collection of steamy Romance novels for the older crowd!
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For ages 14 and up, thousands of primary source documents are fully integrated with the encyclopedia content. Includes research and teaching tools.
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World Book's differentiated instruction site features read-aloud and translation capabilities, more video, and clear, easy-to-read articles.
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Provides access to 2,500 titles including 460 that are proprietary to World Book. Download the World Book eBook app to take titles on the go (requires you to first create an account at World Book online. Click any World Book link and in the upper right corner, click the person icon and click "create account".
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Contains over 10,000 biographies, science experiments, a section in Spanish, and one for kids, and information on how to do research.
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Contains reference books, images, primary sources, academic journals, and more.
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New interface! Search the catalog to request items from libraries across the country. You will need to first login using your Indian Prairie library card and PIN. Don't know your PIN? Call us or click the chat icon on the right side of the screen to start a conversation.
Due to the Covid-19 shut downs, inter-library loan through WorldCat is not available at this time.
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