FREE ILLINOIS DEATH CERTIFICATES

This procedure worked in the fall of 1998 to obtain free death certificates for anyone that died in Illinois in 1919 or later. Some counties' records are available prior to that time, but probably not Clinton County's.
 

By email - You may send email to the IL State Archives for free death records. You can only order 2 at a time, they are uncertified, but they are death certificates and have all the information. Wait until you receive the first two before you request your next two. Send the name, date and location of death to secryan@ccgate.sos.state.il.us
 

By telephone - You may call 1-(217)-782-3556, the request desk for death certificates, chances are 50-50 that they will tell you they need it in writing.
 

By snail mail - Send your request to:

• Illinois State Archives
  Norton Building
  Springfiled IL 62756

No SASE required

Could take less than a month
 

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Illinois State Archives and more can be found at:
http://www.sos.state.il.us/depts/archives/arc_home.html
 

The phone number for information is 1-(217)-782-4682, ask for the library.