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Auto Care
Auto Repair Reference Center - Find information on repairing your car here.

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Computer Resources
Computer Source - Searches for Articles in Computer Source.
Print Documents - Enables you to print remotely, sending them to the Library where you can pay for and pick up your documents.

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Financial Resources
Financial Ratings Series - Combines the strength of Weiss Ratings and TheStreet Ratings to offer the library community with a single source for financial strength ratings and financial planning tools covering Insurance, Banks, Mutual Funds and Stocks.
Investor's Business Daily - Keep on top of your stocks.
Barron's - Investing ideas, blogs & columns, financial advisor rankings, and market data.
Calvert Investments - Market outlook, fund commentaries, and investment recommendations.
EDGAR Company Search - Research a company's financial information through EDGAR, provided by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissio
Yahoo! Finance - Market coverage, statistics, financial news, and personal finance information.
Zacks Investment Research - Proven ratings, investment research, and recommendations.

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Fiction & Literature Resources
MagillOnLiterature Plus - Gives author biographies, gives plot summaries, character information, and critiques.
NoveList - Provides reviews, annotations, subject headings, awards, and book discussions.
NoveList K-8 - Provides reviews, annotations, subject headings, awards, lexile charts, and book discussions.

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Genealogy Resources
Ancestry.com - Find your genealogy, family trees, and family history online! Note: We do not provide a subscription to this website.
Rootsweb.com - An Ancestry.com community designed to help people share their genealogical records.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites - A wonderful list of genealogical websites.

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Homework Resources
Tutor.com - Live homework help from tutors, available for PC and Mac users.
Citation Help - Get help with APA and MLA citation styles here!
Son of a Citation Machine - Free site that helps with all your citation needs.
OSLIS Citation Maker - Another great site to help with citations.
Facts - Information - Refdesk - A great place to find thousands of sites on many different subjects!
World Book Online - Users can search accurate, authoritative, easy to read articles from The World Book Encyclopedia online.

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Magazine and Newspaper Resources
Chicago Tribune RedEye - Search for articles in Chicago Tribune's RedEye. 2002-current
TribLocal.com - A free site from the Chicago Tribune which features events, stories, and photos from local experts: you and your neighbors.
MasterFILE Premier - Search for articles in various periodicals and newspapers.
Newspaper Source - Search for articles in various newspapers.
National Geographic Archives - Search the National Geographic Archives here.

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Medical Resources
National Library of Medicine - the world's largest biomedical library, has a lot of great resources for research. It does not provide specific medical advice.
MedlinePlus - Loads of helpful health information with medical encyclopedias, drug and supplement information, dictionaries, news, directories, health topics, and links to more resources.
National Institute of Mental Health - Mental health information from the National Institute of Mental Health

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Miscellaneous Resources
Occupational Outlook Handbook - Looking for occupational guidance?  The Bureau of Labor Statistics offers a free online handbook that has useful information about hundreds of different types of jobs.
Emergency Contact Database - In the event of a motor vehicle crash or other emergency situation, law enforcement may access this database through driver's licenses, identification cards, and instruction permits to help them reach the person's designated emergency contacts.
IDES (Illinois Department of Employment Security) Database - Great free resource for Employment and Unemployment in Illinois (job placement, referrals, unemployment insurance, training programs, career and labor market information, etc).
Librarians' Internet Index - Great free website full of resources on just about anything.
Financial Aid - Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) website.
Library Thing - Catalog your books at home, share books with others, get recommendations, and create collages! And its free!
Creative Commons - A free website that offers a variety of intellectual property licenses - for those that "want to share their work -- and the power to reuse, modify, and distribute their work -- with others on generous terms."
Getting Credit - Information about credit (everything from what credit is to identity theft to ways to improve credit) from the Federal Trade Commission
Fuel Economy - Loads of information about fuel economy.
Find-It! Illinois - The Find-It! Illinois has a library directory for Illinois, library holdings, statewide library catalog, databases, Illinois Government info, email reference services, and Askaway virtual reference.
The Library of Congress - Loads of great resources all in one place (including Veterans History Project, Book Festival Webcasts, Today in History, and more).
People's Network - 24/7 Reference, trustworthy internet sites, and opinions from other readers on what to read.
Palos Hills Municipal Code - This link provides an online version of the Palos Hills Municipal Code.
Hickory Hills Municipal Code - This link provides an online version of the Hickory Hills Municipal Code as well as zoning ordinances.
Mango Languages - Mango is an online language-learning system that can help you learn languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, Russian and more.

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Tax Information
Internal Revenue Service - The IRS has forms available online to file your federal tax return.
Illinois Department on Aging - File your Illinois Circuit Breaker form.
Illinois Department of Revenue - The Illinois Dept. of Revenue has forms available online to file your state tax return.
Tax Forms for All States - Find tax forms for all 50 states.

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