Finding Aids about Immigration

Originally from Altenberg, Saxony, Germany, (Christian) Philipp Biederman (18 Jan 1814- Apr 1890) immigrated to the United States. But ...

The German Baptist Church of Bloomington, Illinois, was located at the southwest corner of West Locust Street and Western Avenue. It fi...

Irish immigrants first arrived in large numbers to McLean County in the early 1850s. Initially, many came as railroad workers. T...

Jacob Phillip Jung was born in Nauvoo, Illinois, the son of Christian and Elizabeth Brandenburger Jung, natives of Germany.  In 1869 he...

The McLean County Latino History Project seeks to research and record the culture and experience of Latinos who have settled in McLean ...

In 1927, a writer in the Pantagraph opined, “Probably no other family in Bloomington has played such a prominent part in the mercantile...

Helmuth and Augusta Mau came to the United States from Germany in the 1890s.  The Maus settled in Bloomington, and Helmuth worked as a ...

According to an article in The Pantagraph of July 17, 1942, John and William McEwen established their blacksmith shop in Cheno...

George H. Miller (1856 - 1927) was one of eight children born to German immigrants in Bloomington; he grew up on the family farm near B...

The Packard family was from Bolton in Quebec, Canada. Brothers Charles (MD), Walter, Jesse, Frank and Major all moved to Bloomington in...

The Stubblefield family originated in England, with brothers Edward, William, and John emigrating to Halifax County, Virginia. John’s ...