The City record online (CROL) is the electronic version of the Procurement Notices appearing in The City Record printed version. Includes a fully searchable database of current awards and solicitations. Users can search with a variety of criteria, such as due date, publish date, agency, procurement category, commodity codes, and keywords. Solicitations can be downloaded from the web site.

Local historian Margery Blair Perkins (1907-1981) provides a detailed narrative charting the growth and development of the North Shore city of Evanston, Illinois, a place boasting a rich and multi-layered history. Perkins brings the citys past to life through stories of its residents, architecture, and growth over the years. She charts the development of the city from its earliest days when it was known as the settlement of Grosse Pointe and later Ridgeville to its modern manifestation as a bustling city just outside of Chicago. Within a larger historical narrative, Perkins provides biographies of noted residents as she documents the evolution of the citys organizations, cultural life and institutions, such as Northwestern University.