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The National Archives at Chicago has extensive microfilm holdings of value for genealogy research, including Federal population censuses, military service records, and selected passenger arrival lists. It also has more than 80,000 cubic feet of historical records dating from 1800 to the 1980s created or received by Federal agencies in Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and Federal courts in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.. Among subjects of local interest are: the Great Lakes and inland waterways, Native Americans, the environment, immigration and naturalization, inventions and technology, railroads, the automotive industry, and domestic conditions during World Wars I and II. The recordsThe National Archives at Chicago has extensive microfilm holdings of value for genealogy research, including Federal population censuses, military service records, and selected passenger arrival lists. It also has more than 80,000 cubic feet of historical records dating from 1800 to the 1980s created or received by Federal agencies in Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and Federal courts in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.. Among subjects of local interest are: the Great Lakes and inland waterways, Native Americans, the environment, immigration and naturalization, inventions and technology, railroads, the automotive industry, and domestic conditions during World Wars I and II. The records