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Consumer Reports
Ratings, reviews, recommendations, and buying advice from the source that buyers trust.
Consumers’ Checkbook
Ratings on Chicago-area service providers, such as auto repair shops, plumbers, dentists, banks, and insurance companies.
Foundation Directory Online (FDO) (access available at the Main Library only)
Candid’s grant-seeking tool, which includes 232,000+ funder profiles, 18.4+ million grants, 900,000+ grant recipient profiles, and 1+ million key grant decision-makers and leaders, along with contacts, maps, charts, federal grants, requests for proposals (RFPs), and more.
As a Funding Information Network partner, the library provides access to Candid’s websites: Foundation Directory Online and Grants to Individuals, both offering information and resources to assist and strengthen nonprofit organizations.
Gale in Context: Biography
Authoritative biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study.
Global Newsstream
The most recent global news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s, featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites—including Barron’s, Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Chicago Business, Daily Herald, Financial Times, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and more—in active full-text format.
Grants to Individuals (GTI) (access available at the Main Library only)
Candid’s tool for students, artists, researchers—and other individual grant seekers—with profiles on 10,000 foundations that provide grants, and details on scholarships, fellowships, and other grants available to individuals.
As a Funding Information Network partner, the library provides access to Candid’s websites: Foundation Directory Online and Grants to Individuals, both offering information and resources to assist and strengthen nonprofit organizations.
GreenFILE
Articles from scholarly and general interest titles focused on the environment, with the ability to limit to full-text or peer-reviewed.
Historical U.S. Major Dailies
Historical newspaper collection (covering 1849-2016)—including Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post—with easily-searchable first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time.
