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start  START with these databases:

• Consumer Reports
Online subscription to the popular consumer magazine, plus exclusive online content, including Best Car Deals.
• Chicago Consumer's Checkbook
(Only available from within the Library)
Find ratings on Chicagoland services and retailers, including dentists, car repair, personal services, banks, and more.
• Chicago Tribune
Coverage of the full-text paper from 1985 to Current.
• LexisNexis® Library Express
(Access to the legal module is available in-Library only.)
News, consumer, business and legal information.

Additional databases to search:

•  The Official ABMS Directory of Board Certified Medical Specialists
Find certification status and professional information about board certified physicians from the, in more than 150 specialties and subspecialties. Search by geographic area as well as specialty.
•  American Book Prices Current
(Only available from within the Library)
ABPC is an essential tool for buying, selling and evaluating books, serials, autographs, manuscripts, broadsides, maps and documents, based on actual auction prices in the US and abroad.
• Business Insights
Includes company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodical articles from 1980 through today. (Guided Tour)
• Dulley.com
Home repair, earth-friendly living and utility saving information from the nationally syndicated columnist and do-it-yourself author, James Dulley.
• Foundation Center Directory
(Only available from within the Library)
National database of 77,000 grantmakers and over 400,000 grants. One of the most comprehensive resources for non-profits organizations who are seeking funding.
• General Reference Center Gold
Provides one-stop access to general interest magazines, business periodicals, reference books, and newspaper articles. (Search Tips)
• Illinois Public Records
Internet source for public records in the Chicago suburbs, including real estate transfers, foreclosures, business licenses and incorporations.
• Price It! Antiques & Collectibles
A valuable research and pricing tool with more than 20 million realized prices, more than 10 million images, and 125 searchable categories.
• Illinois Legal Forms
Illinois Legal Forms includes thousands of business, personal, litigation and federal forms.

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› Search our most popular databases.Super Search - our most popular databases.

• AnnualCreditReport.comext link

• Appliance Repairext link

• Autozone Vehicle Repair Guidesext link

• Bankrate.comext link

• Big Green Purseext link

• Buying a Homeext link

• Chicago Area Better Business Bureauext link

• Consumer.govext link

• Consumer Product Safety Commission Publicationsext link

• Consumer Searchext link

• Consumer Worldext link

• Consumers Unionext link

• Edmunds Automobile Guideext link

• Epinionsext link

• Foreclosure Resources for Consumersext link

• Fuel Economyext link

• Green Guardianext link

• Homefair.comext link

• Identity Theft Prevention and Survivalext link

• Illinois Attorney General – Protecting Consumersext link

• Illinois Lemon Lawext link

• Kelley Blue Bookext link

• Food and Agribusiness Guideext link

• Green Living Ideasext link

• Law Guruext link

• Lawyers.comext link

• MyRatePlanext link

• NADA Guidesext link (Cars, Boats, Motorcycles, RVs)

• National Foundation for Credit Counselingext link

• National Green Pagesext link

• Physician Profile Searchext link

• PriceGrabber.comext link

• Recallsext link

• Salvation Army Valuation Guideext link

• Who Writes What Directoryext link - who offers specific kinds of insurance policies

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