Among Illinois counties, Champaign County possesses unusually rich historical documentation, hosting a number of institutions dedicated to the collection and preservation of our community’s historical record. This fall, we are fortunate to see the release of a grant-funded project that serves as the first phase of a portal to digital content about our county, drawn from a variety of repositories in our community, called Historic Champaign County: Neighborhoods and Homes.
Developed by staff at the Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana Free Library, and hosted at the Illinois Digital Archives, the collection should be of great interest to historic preservation enthusiasts and architectural historians, but also makes available primary source material to a broad audience of students, genealogists, historians, and others interested in the history of east central Illinois.