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Illinois Newspaper Project Blog

Spanish Influenza vs. COVID-19

Imagine being able to sit down with the Surgeon General of the United States during the Spanish Influenza outbreak of 1918 and a top doctor from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the current COVID-19 crisis at the same time and ask them a few questions about the pandemic du jour. Well, […]

Advisory board selects newspapers for digitization

The Illinois Newspaper Project is thrilled to announce that the advisory board has selected the following newspapers for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) digitization grant:   Canton Weekly register (Canton, Ill.) 1852-1914 The citizen / Irish news and Chicago citizen / The Chicago citizen (Chicago, Ill.), 1882-1928 The Du Quoin tribune (Du Quoin, Ill.), […]

Updates and new titles added to the IDNC

Updates were recently made to the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections. Users of the IDNC will notice: An improved image viewer The Open Sea Dragon viewer is faster and more responsive. Try for yourself! Pagination now exhibited underneath each image Helpful when viewing larger newspapers with several pages. Permanent links for each issue is now available […]