The Cook County Clerk's Office new website has an index to 6 million of the 8 million birth, death and marriage records for the county.  Free registration is required and copies are $15 plus $1.75 credit card processing fee.

Access the site at http://www.cookcountygenealogy.com/.

The McHenry County IL GenWeb site has moved to www.genwebsite.org/mchenry/.  The content has been re-organized into folders for easy access.  Genealogists and researchers will find surname lists, county histories, cemetery information and more.