General                    

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost): Includes information in nearly every area of academic study including including the social and physical sciences, the humanities and arts & literature, engineering and computer science, humanities, education, and more. 
                     
• ProQuest One Search: Full text access to a broad range of source titles across all academic disciplines including the social and physical sciences, the humanities and arts & literature, engineering and computer science, humanities, education, and more. Includes full text of the New York Times and Chicago Tribune.
          
• Gale Global Issues in Context: Global Issues in Context offers global perspectives on issues of international importance and current world events and topics in the news related to these issues. 
                   
• Gale Virtual Reference Library: Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
                     
• Oxford English Dictionary: The authoritative reference on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. Includes etymologies, variant spellings, pronunciation & examples of words in context.

Education   

• Professional Development (Education): Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles.
                     
• ERIC: Contains more than 850,000 annotated references to non-journal material issued in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the monthly Index to Journals in Education (CIJE).

History/ Geography                   

• Biographies Plus Illustrated: Over 46,000 biographical profiles, many with illustrations. Coverage includes all of Wilson's Current Biography from 1940-present, World Authors Series, World Artists, Nobel Prize Winners, World Musicians, Handbook of American Women's History.
                     
• Harper's Historical Archive: Articles from Harper's historical archive dating back to the second half of the nineteenth century. ProQuest Black Studies Center: Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more.
                     
• Illinois Sanborn Maps: Fire insurance maps of Illinois cities.
  

Sciences                

• PubMed Central: PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
                     
• MeSH Browser: An online vocabulary look-up aid available for use with MeSH® (Medical Subject Headings). It is designed to help quickly locate descriptors of possible interest and to show the hierarchy in which descriptors of interest appear.                   

Literature /English/ Communications                    

• Gale Literature Resource Center: Literature Resource Center is comprised of content from journal articles and traditional reference sources including Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, and Contemporary Literary Criticism.
                     
• Oxford English Dictionary: The authoritative reference on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. Includes etymologies, variant spellings, pronunciation & examples of words in context. CQ Researcher: Covers controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into many sides of the issues, and bibliographies.
                     
• Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Draws on content from Greenhaven Press, Gale and Macmillan to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues.
                     
• CQ Researcher: Covers controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into many sides of the issues, and bibliographies. This resource includes access to the full text of all articles published since 1983.
  

Newspapers                    

• Chicago Sun Times: Full text access to the Sun-Times from 1985. 
                     
• Chicago Tribune: Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community.
                     
• Ethnic NewsWatch: Provides comprehensive access to the ethnic, minority and native press in the United States.
  Newspaper Source: Provides selected full text from over 180 U.S. and international newspapers, newswires, columns as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers.
                     
• New York Times: Full text access to the New York Times from 1999 with indexing from 1986.

Other Databases                   

• Books in Print: Find publisher-verified information on all U.S. books in print. Books in Print contains in-print and forthcoming books, and books declared out-of-print or out-of-stock since 1979. 
                     
• GPO Monthly Catalog: More than 450,000 records for documents printed by the U.S. government. It covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records, judiciary materials, and documents issued by executive departments. 
                     
• WorldCat: WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat database can search for popular books, music CDs and videos.
                     
• World Almanac: Includes the contents of The World Almanac and Book of Facts (1998), The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids.