Searching through Cook County records is non stop fun if you are inclined to do some madness. You can check it out here. One of the big problems is that the entity names vary, or at least vary how they were recorded. This is illustrated by the heading at the top of the page. And that is only for Acme! Interlake has it’s own long list of entity names so you will have to search to find them all, then you can begin to review the many documents available. They are all water marked but if you are so inclined, you can purchase copies without watermarks and get the PDFs. The website has undergone some upgrades in the beginning of 2023 and is much more user friendly now, at the time I had some serious issues when I tried to purchase documents:
Would you believe that they actually asked to see a copy of my credit card statement as proof that I am the actual purchaser? I inquired about putting some money ‘on the books’ so I could just continue to purchase at will within my balance. They said they would get back to me but never did.
But that is OK because after reading a great many documents I found that many were dull boilerplate. But I did find a couple interesting ones, which I did purchase and now I share them with you here, for nothing! The first is from 1986 when the Acme name revived. The second is a bit more sad – as the Interlake name truly died in 2000.