Governmental/Judicial

• Prime site for any U.S. government branch agency or department:
  www.firstgov.gov
• Securities Exchange Commission- for all corporate securities filings:
  www.sec.gov click on the search EDGAR archives for corporate filings.
• U.S. General Accounting Office: www.gao.gov
  reports on just about everything that congress is interested in.
• ERISA information, including private pension rights, lost pensions, etc.:
  www.pbgc.gov
• U.S. Dept. of Justice: www.usdoj.gov
• U.S. Federal Trade Commission: www.ftc.gov
• Official U.S. Medicare program site: www.medicare.gov
• U.S.Congress : "thomas" site: thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.html
• Official U.S. Time: the "atomic clock": www.time.gov
• Links to all federal courts and rulemaking: www.uscourts.gov
• Links to all Illinois State Courts: www.state.il.us/court
• Illinois State government gateway: wwww.state.il.us
• Illinois Secretary of State: www.sos.state.il.us/home.html
• Cook County Clerk (public records, birth certificates, etc.):
  www.cookctyclerk.com
• City of Chicago gateway: www.ci.chi.il.us

News sites:

• New York Times: www.nytimes.com
• Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com

Unclaimed Funds, Forgotten bank accounts and Lost Money!!!!

• Illinois Treasurer's Office: www.cashdash.net
• New York:
  www.osc.state.ny.us/cgi-bin/db2www/ouffrm.d2w/input
• Ohio: www.com.state.oh.us/odoc/unfd/unfdform.htm
• Texas: www.window.state.tx.us/up
• Links to most state unclaimed funds offices:
  www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9514/unclaimed.html

Law Schools:

• IIT-Chicago Kent School of Law.: www.kentlaw.edu/

Major Search Engine Web Sites

• Webcrawler
• Infoseek
• Lycos
• Excite
• HotBot
• AltaVista
• Overture
• Northern Light

Major Meta-Search Engine Web Sites - Meta search engines use more than one search engine when looking for information on the web.

• Dogpile
• MetaCrawler
• SEARCH.COM

Specialized Databases

• PubMed - National Library of Medicine
• US Newspaper Archives on the Web
• Delphion - Intellectual property research network

Sites for Locating Library Catalogs

• LIBWEB at Berkeley will find all types of libraries
• webCATS will only find Web based libraries

Major Directories

• Galaxy
• LookSmart
• Yahoo!

Virtual Libraries

• Infomine
• Librarians' Index to the Internet

Airlines:

• American: www.aa.com
• United: www.ual.com

Miscellaneous:

• Bandwidth: Test your bandwidth/speed of your connection to the internet:
  computingcentral.msn.com/internet/speedtest.asp
• Workers compensation: www.illinoiscomp.com
  

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