Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . o V, - HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS. 335 it is destined, in the course of a few years, to bereckoned one of the leading libraries of its classin the United States, as it is one of the mostmodern and carefully selected. The Newberry and Chicago Historical SocietyLibraries fill an important place for reference pur-poses, especially on historical subjects. A tardybeginning has been made in building up a StateHistorical Library in Springfield; but, owing tothe indifference of the Legislature and the meagersupport it has received- the State which was, fo
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . o V, - HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS. 335 it is destined, in the course of a few years, to bereckoned one of the leading libraries of its classin the United States, as it is one of the mostmodern and carefully selected. The Newberry and Chicago Historical SocietyLibraries fill an important place for reference pur-poses, especially on historical subjects. A tardybeginning has been made in building up a StateHistorical Library in Springfield; but, owing tothe indifference of the Legislature and the meagersupport it has received- the State which was, fornearly a hundred years, the theater of the mostimportant events in the development of the Mis-sissippi Valley, has, as yet, scarcely accomplishedanything worthy of its name in collecting andpreserving the records of its own history. In point of historical origin, next to the IllinoisState Library, which dates from the admissionof the State into the Union in 1818, the oldestlibrary in the State is that of the McCormickTheological Sem
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