Lately I have been focusing on researching historic buildings in Peru, Illinois, and trying to leverage the information published in, I believe, the 1980s in the Historic American Building Survey (HABS) report for that community. What I found was researching properties with these reports can be challenging. Even when covering only one community, the document can be lengthy, and I have not found them to be bookmarked. So if you want to know if a specific property is surveyed and in the report, you need to open the report and scroll or page through it. Even if you find a…