I think of Wisconsin and Illinois as sister states. Here are some useful links for online information.
Cook County Illinois has an excellent site with searchable birth, death and marriage records. You can search and find the basic information for free. If you want the full record you pay a fee and then can download a digital image.
http://www.cookcountygenealogy.com
Click here to go to the site.
I discovered (by accident!) that some of the images of records are available for free on www.familysearch.org. I found Illinois, Cook County Deaths 1878-1922, and retrieved a image of a ancestore's death certificate.
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1463134
Click here to go to this record set.
The state of Illinois has a statewide Marriage index program 1763-1900. http://www.ilsos.gov/isavital/marriagesrch.jsp
Click here to go to this site.
Illinois also has a statewide death index for 1916-1950
http://www.ilsos.gov/isavital/idphdeathsrch.jsp
Click here to go to this site
There is a separate index for pre-1916 deaths
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases/death.html
Click here to go to this site.
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