July 2025: New titles added to the IDNC

New titles have been made available for research in the IDNC! This batch is particularly exciting because it includes the first newspapers available in the IDNC for three counties: Henry County, Monroe County, and Ogle County.

Available dates (for new titles) and dates of new content (for existing IDNC titles) are formatted as YYYY/MM/DD. New titles include, by county:

Champaign County:

The Broadlands News (Broadlands, Ill.) | Available dates: 1927/10/01 – 1948/12/23 (819 issues) *digital files donated to the IDNC by the Homer Historical Society
Champaign County Gazette (Champaign, Ill.) | Available dates: 1869/03/03 – 1907/12/25 (1,965 issues)
Champaign County Herald (Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1878/01/02 – 1902/01/08 (911 issues)
The Champaign County News (Champaign, Ill.) | Dates of new content: 1891/02/21 – 1917/06/30 (1,670 issues)
The Champaign County Teachers’ Institute (Urbana, Ill.) | Available date: 1895/07/29 (1 issue)
Champaign County Union (Champaign, Ill.) | Available dates: 1861/06/06 – 1862/05/08 (4 issues)
Champaign County Union & Gazette (Champaign, Ill.) | Available dates: 1863/01/29 – 1863/08/13 (3 issues)
The Champaign Daily Gazette (Champaign, Ill.) | Available dates: 1883/11/05 – 1919/12/11 (10,393 issues)
The Champaign News-Gazette (Champaign, Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1919/12/14 – 1932/08/31 (24 issues)
The Champaign Times (Champaign, Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1875/08/28 – 1879/09/27 (29 issues)
Champaign Union (Champaign, Ill.) | Available dates: 1867/04/11 – 1879/08/20 (5 issues)
The Champaign and Urbana Citizen (Champaign, Ill.) | Available dates: 1931/03/20 – 1934/08/31 (180 issues)
The Daily Re-Union (Sidney, Ill.) | Available dates: 1884/08/21 – 1884/08/22 (2 issues)
The Gazette and Union (Champaign, Ill.) | Available dates: 1868/02/26 – 1869/02/24 (50 issues)
The Rantoul Weekly Press (Rantoul, Ill.) | Available dates: 1881/11/12 – 1884/08/15 (2 issues)
The Signal (Champaign, Ill.) | Available date: 1884/10/23 (1 issue)
Twin City Review (Champaign, Ill.) | Dates of new content: 1926/04/02 – 1929/10/16 (185 issues)
The Union and Gazette (Champaign, Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1866/04/13 – 1868/02/19 (92 issues)
Urbana Union (Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1853/05/05 – 1859/08/11 (35 issues)
The Urbana Weekly Courier (Urbana, Ill.) Available date: 1902/11/28 (1 issue)

Cook County:

Harlem Post (Forest Park/Harlem, Ill.) | Available dates: 1895/09/12 – 1904/08/25 (455 issues) [German-language newspaper]
Movienews Weekly (Chicago, Ill.) | Available dates: 1936/10/23 – 1937/11/26 (48 issues)

DeKalb County:

The True Republican (1873-1970) (Sycamore, Ill.) | Dates of new content: 1948/07/20 – 1949/02/22 (32 issues)

Henry County: [newly represented county!]

Kewanee Daily Courier (Kewanee, Ill.) | Available dates: 1896/05/14 – 1898/04/28 (436 issues)
Kewanee Daily Star-Courier (Kewanee, Ill.) | Available dates: 1898/05/02 – 1898/05/14 (12 issues)

Monroe County: [newly represented county!]

The Monroe County Clarion (Columbia, Ill.) | Available dates: 1939/06/15 – 1976/12/29 (1,694 issues)

Ogle County: [newly represented county!]

Rochelle Herald (Rochelle, Ill.) | Available dates: 1908/07/01 – 1914/12/30 (56 issues)

Whiteside County:

Daily Blade (Sterling, Ill.) | Available dates: 1881/09/20 – 1881/09/28 (4 issues)
Rock Falls News (Rock Falls, Ill.) | Available date: 1883/07/05 (1 issue)
Twin City Daily News (Rock Falls, Ill.) | Available date: 1918/02/21 (1 issue)

Williamson County:

Marion Weekly Leader (Marion, Ill.) | Available dates: 1929/01/03 – 1946/12/26 (417 issues)

 

More on the way!

 

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