How to Obtain Illinois Vital Records
This page provides information on obtaining copies of Illinois
birth certificates, Illinois marriage licenses, Illinois divorce
decrees and Illinois death records. There are also useful
links to past Illinois Vital Records for those of you conducting
family history research. General information about US vital
records can be viewed on this site's homepage
Illinois Vital Records may be obtained
from the following government office:
Division of Vital Records
Illinois Department of Public Health
605 West Jefferson Street
Springfield, IL 62702-5097
Illinois vital records order forms as
well as more information are available on the following
pages:
The Illinois Department of Public Health may be contacted
by phone on (217) 782-6553 or online at http://www.idph.state.il.us/
Remarks: State office has records since January 1916
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Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Records Online via Vital
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Other Illinois Vital Records Resources
I have included these additional sites because they may
contain Illinois vital records (birth records, marriage records,
divorce records or death records) that you might find useful
if you are conducting genealogy research:
Social
Security Death Index 
search over 80 million names - The Social Security Death
Index (SSDI) is a database that contains the names of deceased
persons who were assigned Social Security numbers and whose
deaths were reported to the SSA. These records usually include
a full name, birth and death dates, and last known residence
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Illinois Marriage Records Online - a comprehensive collection
of many online marriage databases for Illinois indexed in
county order
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Illinois Birth, Marriage & Death Records 
online databases of vital records
USGenweb Archives
Project - Illinois USGenWeb is an archive of free databases
including vital and other records such as marriages, church
records, wills,censusesand cemetery records.
World
Vital Records search over 800
million US names including marriage records, divorces and
death records
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