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Searching the Net? Here Are Places to Start:
- Google Advanced Search - Over 1 billion pages indexed and now with advanced searching.
- Google Directory NOT regular Google.This combines the best of Yahoo (directory) with rankings based on popularity.
- About.com has humans who scour the Net and assemble mini-sites on a wide variety of topics.
- Reference Desk excellent collection of well organized site links. A subjects covered
- Beaucoup Listing of specialized databases on the web that cannot be accessed with other search tools
- search.com has more obscure topic-oriented choices
- Alta Vista one of the largest free-text searching engines on the Web- use AltaVista to find images on the web. It's new
- Raging Search provides a quick interface for this search tool
- Blue Web 'N - excellent set of links for educators
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- StartSpot - starting points that cover numerous topics - people, government, travel, homework, plus more
- All the Web newest and largest of the search tools . Over 200,000 sites indexed
- Hotbot, forms based searching that scored high in a recent study of completeness
- Dogpile and Metacrawler offer simultaneous searches of multiple Web search engines
- Reference.com searches and archives mailing lists, web forums and Usenet groups
- ForumOne One-stop guide to forum topics around the Web
- CNet tech news, reviews, software and services. Also see their news.com and Snap! service
- Tile.Net will help you find Internet mailing lists
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College and Career
Career Cruising - "The Complete Guidance System" College Profiles Education Index ilworkinfo - Illinois Career Resource Network Federal Information Exchange - scholarship information
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The Reference Desk
- OnLine Converstion - makes over 8000 conversions available with the click of a mouse
- Library Spot - Extensive guide to online reference works
- YourDictionary.com and Onelook give access to hundreds of dictionaries, specialized and general
- National Geographic's Map Machine - great mapping site
- Encyclopedia Britannica - the real thing now for free
- Itools all-in-one reference desk
- Onelook has 260 dictionaries, specialized and general
- Internet Thesaurus
- Information Please Almanac Almanac, dictionary and the full Columbia Encyclopedia
- Biography.com
- Travlang language-to-language translation dictionaries
- Shark Talk: Nolo's Law Dictionary
- Gov Spot - index of US government web accessible info
- FedWorld Information Services: Comprehensive guide to Government databases
- 50 States.Com - comprehensive information about each state
- District 214 online subscription databases and reference material - to access from outside the district, use the password page link at the top of the page. Contact your school librarian for this password
Special Reference Sites
- ConvertIt converts measurements, currencies, timezones and more
- Bartleby Literature, reference, and verse
- Yahoo Yellow Pages comprehensive yellow page index of business throughout North America
- ZIP Code search fast easy way to look up ZIP (and ZIP+4) codes for any U.S. address
- Area Code Decoder enables you to look up country, area, and city telephone codes
- The New York Public Library
- Chicago Public Library
- National Library of Medicine and PubMed
- The Merck Manual, guide to diseases
- RxList: The Internet Drug Index Extensive information on prescription and over-the-counter drugs
- Nutrient database from the U.S.D.A.
- FindLaw and Martindale-Hubbell's Lawyer Locator
- U.S. Patents since 1971, from I.B.M.
- I.R.S. information and publications. For more tax sites, try taxsites.com.
- Mapquest gives a street-level map for any U.S. address
- Social Security death index
- Consumer World has consumer finance rates, company contacts, consumer information
- Currency converter from Olsen & Associates converts from any currency to another
- How Far Is It? gives the distance between two cities
- U.S. Naval Observatory clock
- State and County QuickFacts - from US Census bureau
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Telephone & E-mail Directories
- Switchboard nationwide telephone and address directory
- AnyWho reverse lookup, phone numbers, addresses, find your neighbors, all on one site
- Big Yellow National business yellow pages and residential listings from NYNEX
- 555-1212.com National and international phone and e-mail directories (still has a reverse directory)
- WhoWhere, Internet Address Finder and Four11 can help find people and places
- Zip Code and Zip+4 Finder Simple and efficient
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- ABC News offers top news, including the current ABC radio report, and (large) video clips
- BBC News British Broadcasting Corporation
- CNN
- Fox News Clean, simple search of AP and Reuters wires
- MSNBC from Microsoft and NBC News
- Boston.com from The Boston Globe
- The Electronic Telegraph from The Daily Telegraph of London
- The Gate from the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle
- Los Angeles Times
- Philadelphia Inquirer
- San Jose Mercury News
- The Times of London
- USA Today
- The Wall Street Journal
- The Washington Post
- Chicago Sun-Times Online
- Media Central stays on top of media and marketing
- TotalNews search for breaking news on the Web
- Newspaper archives on the Web from the Special Libraries Association
- Wired News
Magazines & Features
- The Atlantic
- CareerPath.com a classified ad service from many papers (including The Times)
- The Drudge Report
- National Enquirer The supermarket tabloid comes to the Web
- Pathfinder from Time-Warner
- Rolling Stone
- Slate, Microsoft's cyber magazine
- United Media, a collection of comics
- U.S. News
Guides to Many Publications
- Newslink, a guide to newspapers, magazines and broadcast organizations
- Project Gutenberg
- Newspapers of the world on the Internet -yahoo like index of newspapers online
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- Project Vote Smart, a guide to candidates and issues
- All Politics from Time and CNN
- Federal Election Commission data on campaign contributions
- Political Points, also from The NY Times on the Web, has more political links
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Chicago
- Chicago Architecture Foundation take a walking or bus tour of Chicago's famous buildings
- City of Chicago official Chicago homepage - also traffic info
- City Insights
- Metromix Chicago
- Yahoo! Chicago
- Guide to Chicago Museums
- Chicago Public Library
- CTA
- Chicago's Airports
Places
Fine Arts
ILLINOIS
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Commerce
- Amazon.com Books, music, videos, games, electronics, auctions -- and growing
- Barnesandnoble.com and Borders have books and music to enjoy off line
- BizWeb: Internet commercial sites by category
- Buyer's Index searches 6,700 Web sites and catalogs for the product you seek
- CD Now, itunes, Tunes.com Online music stores
- Ebay online auction house
- Internet Fashion
- NetMarket and Shopping.com have discounts on brand name goods
- PriceScan says it finds the lowest prices
- Product ReviewNet Reviews of products from a variety of publications
- Travelocity and Expedia have airline tickets, car rentals, hotel reservations, travel information
- PriceLine lets you name a price for travel, cars or mortgages, and see if anyone will bite
- Bizrate lets you see how fellow consumers rate online merchants
- Travelzoo - collects special travel offers from many sites
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Entertainment/Culture/Pastimes
- The Internet Movie Database
- Moviefone has theater times and advance ticket purchases in major cities
- Ticketmaster has information and tickets for music, theater and sporting events
- Film.com News from the movie industry
- Reel surveys your movie tastes and recommends ones it thinks you'll like
- Atom Films offers short films and animations on the Web
- TV Guide
- Ultimate Television Network
- PBS Online
- The Discovery Channel Online
- Culturefinder has schedules for the performing arts around the U.S.
- National Endowment for the Arts
- World Wide Arts Resources
- WebMuseum will take you to the virtual Louvre
- Art on the Net an exhibit by 80 artists, and links to other art sites
- mp3.com makes a wide variety of music available in its eponymous Internet format
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and museum
- Epicurious and the Food Network will help you answer the question, "What's for dinner?"
- AdCritic.com - you'll find your favorite TV commercials in Quicktime
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- ESPN
- Sportsline from CBS
- CNN/SI from CNN and Sports Illustrated
- Allsports has news, scores, odds, audio feeds and more
- NFL.com from the N.F.L.
- major league baseball from Major League Baseball
- GORP, the Great Outdoor Recreation Pages, has extensive information on parks and outdoor activities of all sorts
- Bicycle Lane
- The Tennis Server and Tennis Country have news, schedules, rules and more
- Golf.com
- The Chicago Bulls
- The Chicago White Sox
- The Chicago Cubs
- Chicago Bears
- Chicago Blackhawks
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Demonstrations and Miscellany
- QuickBrowse - lets you combine and fetch Web pages you frequently read into one long page
- How Stuff Works tells you just that
- The F.B.I.'s Most Wanted
- Tarot Card Reader, I Ching and moree
- iVillage concentrates on the women's perspective
- Earthcam has links to live cameras all over the Net
- Purportal - reference to combat hoaxes and misinformation about technology such as urban legends
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Data Collections for Research
- FedWorld Information ServicesComprehensive guide to Government databases
- Microsoft Terra Server - Satellite images of large portions of the US.
- Federal Government Agencies a clean, easy-to-use listing
- Fedstats collects and organizes statistics from 70 agencies
- National Archives and Records Administration catalogs records held by Government agencies
- The White House
- House of Representatives
- The Senate
- Thomas the Library of Congress information service
- Census Bureau home page for recent population and income data
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- United Nations and U.N. Web locator
- FindLaw has an extensive collection of legal links
- Landings Comprehensive aviation site offers databases of plane registrations, service difficulty reports, pilot certifications
- Top 200 Government contractors from Government Executive
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has links and information, including a fill-in-the-blanks Freedom of Information request. (This list of Federal freedom of information officers may be useful, as well as this New York State FOI page)
- National Hurricane Center
- Welcome to EduNET! A great source to locate top education sites on the internet. Many links organized
- Britannica online - Encyclopedia Britannica
- Blue Web'n Applications Library A comprehensive database of links to lesson plans and Net integration tips.
- HomeworkHeaven Hundreds of links to educationally valuable sites.
- WannaLearn links to online tutorals in many categories both academic and recreational.
- eHow - teaches you to do many everyday things.
- Rubistar - free rubric maker.
- Atomic Learning
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