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America's Newspapers
America's Newspapers offers full-text coverage for local, regional, and national newspapers, including the Sun Times, and The Herald News, as well as the Chicago Tribune Historical Archives.
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Auto Repair Reference Center
The most comprehensive collection of automobile repair reference information Auto Repair Reference Center (ARRC) contains repair and maintenance information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles. New repair procedures, TSBs and updates are added to the product on a regular basis. All of the content in ARRC has been created by ASE certified technicians.



Career Cruising
Career Cruising is an online career guidance and planning system. People of all ages can use the Career Cruising tools to find the right career, explore education and training options, and even build a resume or portfolio. Career Cruising allows you to input your interests and skills and, based on your reponses will give you potential career paths, relevant schools and/or training suggestions and more!


Chicago Tribune Historical Archive
The Chicago Tribune Historical Archive covers news stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The information in this vast historical archive provides a look at noteworthy local and national issues and events occurring over the past 150 years, from 1849 to 1984. It includes:

• Obituaries and Death Notices (2.5 million) - very unique data covering 1860-1984, including front-page obituaries for notables from Chicago and worldwide.
• Chicago Tribune Morgue clippings file (nearly 3 million) - major stories covering events and issues clipped and indexed by the Chicago Tribune staff at time of publication. Coverage is from the 1920's through 1984.
• Front pages (16,614 pages containing over 155,000 articles) - image of entire front page as it appeared when published from the early 1900 through 1984.

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Consumer Health Complete
Includes full-text for more than 250 health reference books and encyclopedias Consumer Health Complete™ (CHC) is the single-most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support the information needs of patients, and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics.

CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full-text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition and dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc.

CHC offers a unique search interface designed to call attention to the full text content available from many important source-types, and to provide an intuitive means for searching this specific information.

Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.


Record Information Services
Record Information Services is a public records database that covers Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, and Will counties. It covers new homeowners, new businesses, foreclosures and sales, and bankruptcies.
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ReferenceUSA
The ReferenceUSA database contains directory listings on more than 12 million businesses and 120 million households in the United States.
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