Allerton Public Library maintains a Local History Collection in the Max Hency Local History Room at the Library.

The Library collects photographs, maps, print materials and non-print materials (including oral histories) focusing on Piatt County, Illinois.

• Local History Room closes 15 minutes prior to Library closing.
• Computers in Local History Room are for Historical and Genealogical research ONLY.
• Self service copying/printing in the Local History Room is $.15 per black and white page.
• Genealogical items in Local History Room are non-circulating

Some of the resources available include:

• History of Piatt County, Illinois by Emma Piatt c1883
• History of Dewitt and Piatt Counties, Illinois by Chapman Brothers c1891
• Past and Present of Piatt County, Illinois by Charles Mcintosh c1903
• Piatt County History by Francis Shonkwiler c1917
• The Good Life in Piatt County by Jesse Morgan c1968
• Piatt County State Census for 1855 and 1865
• U.S. Federal Census for Piatt County, Illinois 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930
• Piatt County, Illinois cemeteries indexed by township
• Piatt County, Illinois marriage index 1841-1910
• Piatt County, Illinois birth index 1877-1916
• Piatt County, Illinois atlases (indexed) 1865, 1875, 1896, 1910, 1927
• Piatt County, Illinois newspapers are also available on microfilm. 1874 to the present.