Below is a list of all new newspaper titles added to the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections this month. Specialized newspapers include a few issues of an anti-saloon newspaper published in Urbana, Illinois; four farm bureau newspapers; three newspapers from Black communities in Chicago, Illinois; and two newspapers published out of Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois. This batch also includes additional issues of Vilnis, a Lithuanian-language newspaper published in Chicago with an English section published on Fridays.
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 Chanute Field News and the Air Service Technical School Bulletin (Rantoul, Ill.) | Available dates: 1926/01/15 – 1926/07/02 (12 issues)
The Urbana Clarion (Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1859/10/29 – 1860/09/01 (19 issues)
The Urbana Issue (Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1913/03/08 – 1913/04/12 (5 issues) [Anti-saloon newspaper]
The U.S. Air Corps News (Rantoul, Ill.) | Available dates: 1926/07/15 – 1926/12/21 (11 issues)
Weekly Courier-Herald (Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1905/10/20 – 1910/04/29 (3 issues)
Clark County:
Clark County Farm Bureau News (Marshall, Ill.) | Available dates: 1945/10/20 – 1962/05/19 (259 issues)
Cook County:
Vilnis (Chicago, Ill.) | Dates of new content: 1951/08/01 – 1974/06/27 (207 issues) [Lithuanian-language newspaper; English section printed on Fridays]
The Weekly Chicago Times (Chicago, Ill.) | Available dates: 1856/04/03 – 1861/05/23 (124 issues)
West Side Torch (Chicago, Ill.) | Available dates: 1965/09/01 – 1971/11/01 (117 issues) [Black Newspapers collection]
West Side Times (Cicero, Ill.) | Available dates: 1974/10/03 (1 issue)
Woodlawn Booster (Chicago, Ill.) | Available dates: 1961/05/24 – 1967/08/01 (31 issues) [Black Newspapers collection]
Woodlawn Booster and Bulletin (Chicago, Ill.) | Available dates: 1967/09/05 – 1970/04/28 (43 issues) [Black Newspapers collection]
DeWitt County:
The Wapella Herald (Wapella, Ill.) | Available dates: 1900/09/21 (1 issue)
Ford County:
Farm Bureau News of Ford County (Gibson City, Ill. and Melvin, Ill.) | Available dates: 1921/07/01-1971/11/01 (687 issues)
Ford-Iroquois Farm Bureau News (Watseka, Ill.) | Available dates: 1974/03/21-1984/03/28 (114 issues)
Kane County:
Aurora Daily Beacon-News (Aurora, Ill.) | Available dates: 1925/01/01 – 1926/12/31 (729) *digital files donated by the Aurora Public Library District
McClean County:
McLean County Farm Bureau News (Bloomington, Ill.) | Available dates: 1921/05/01-1929/12/01 (85 issues)
Tazewell County:
The Tremont-Hopesdale News (Tremont, Ill.) | Available dates: 1953/11/19 – 1953/11/26 (2 issues)
Will County:
The Wilmington Independent (Wilmington, Ill.) | Available dates: 1861/09/26 – 1868/10/14 (356 issues)