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'''The [[National Archives Great Lakes Region (Chicago)]]''' has a card index of 1,000,000 names of people recorded in many courts of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) District 9, which comprised the northern third of Illinois, northwestern Indiana, southern and eastern Wisconsin, and eastern Iowa. This record indexes both civil and military petitions for the U.S. District and circuit courts for the Northern District, Eastern Division of Illinois, the circuit, county, criminal and superior courts of Cook County, Illinois, and the county and municipal courts. A microfilm copy of this index is:  
'''The [[National Archives Great Lakes Region (Chicago)]]''' has a card index of 1,000,000 names of people recorded in many courts of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) District 9, which comprised the northern third of Illinois, northwestern Indiana, southern and eastern Wisconsin, and eastern Iowa. This record indexes both civil and military petitions for the U.S. District and circuit courts for the Northern District, Eastern Division of Illinois, the circuit, county, criminal and superior courts of Cook County, Illinois, and the county and municipal courts. A microfilm copy of this index is:  


*United States. District Court (Illinois: Northern District). ''Soundex Index to Naturalization Petitions for U.S. District & Circuit Court, Northern District of Illinois and Immigration and Naturalization Service District 9, 1840–1950''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1988. (On 183 Family History Library films beginning with {{FHL|1432001|film|disp=1432001}}). Partial digital version at [http://search.ancestryinstitution.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1629 Ancestry] (free section) (Described as "Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa" in ''U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791-1992 (Indexed in World Archives Project)''.)
*United States. District Court (Illinois: Northern District). ''Soundex Index to Naturalization Petitions for U.S. District & Circuit Court, Northern District of Illinois and Immigration and Naturalization Service District 9, 1840–1950''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1988. {{FHL|232846|item|disp=FHL film 1432001 (first of 183)}}.
 
*{{RecordSearch|1838804|Illinois, Northern District Naturalization Index, 1840-1950}} at [http://www.familysearch.org/FamilySearch FamilySearch]–Free; Online version with browsable images. Browse by [[Soundex|Soundex number]] of surname.  
For a description of the judicial districts in Illinois, the counties they included, and the location of the court seat, see pages 384–85 of Frederick B. Crossley’s Courts and Lawyers.  
*Partial digital version at [http://search.ancestryinstitution.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1629 Ancestry] (free section) (Described as "Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa" in ''U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791-1992 (Indexed in World Archives Project)''.)  
*Crossley, Frederick B. ''Courts and Lawyers of Illinois.'' Chicago: American Historical Society, 1916. [http://www.worldcat.org/title/oclc/20954802/ Other Libraries (WorldCat)] {{FHL|291807|item|FHL Film 934965 Book 977.3 D3c}}. For a description of the judicial districts in Illinois, the counties they included, and the location of the court seat, see pages 384–85.


== '''Post-1906 Records'''  ==
== '''Post-1906 Records'''  ==
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