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Research Room Closures

There may be temporary Research Room closures through March 2009.

If you are planning to conduct research at the Regional Archives in Chicago, Illinois anytime before Spring, please contact us prior to your arrival to confirm that the Microfilm Research Room will be open on the day you want to visit:

To bring the Regional Archives into compliance with updated security guidelines, we will begin several weeks of construction work in our research rooms during November-December 2008. While construction is underway, we will make every effort to find alternate locations for researchers. However, it may be necessary to temporarily close the Microfilm Research Room for several days.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Upcoming Programs

An Introduction to Document and Photograph Preservation

These programs are held at our Chicago, Illinois facility.


Records Management News

Great Lakes Wave NewsletterFall 2008
Read about the Essential Records Summit, the Electronic Records Archives, RACO 2008 in Atlanta, 2009 workshops, and more.

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TVA postcard A postcard book containing 21 postcards with photographs from the early years of the TVA now on sale.

Also available is the book,
Great Plains Originals

The Regional Archives in Chicago, Illinois
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The Federal Records Center on Springboro Road in Dayton, Ohio
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The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001
Telephone: 1-86-NARA-NARA or 1-866-272-6272