The IDNC recently added new digitized titles, including: The Ava Citizen (Ava, Ill.) 21 December 1917 – 29 March 1946 (1296 issues) First digitized newspaper from Jackson County! The Galena Advertiser (Galena, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Ill.) 1829-1830 20 July 1829 – 17 May 1830 38 issues The Galenian (Galena, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Ill.) […]
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New issues and titles added to the IDNC
March 27, 2024
Advisory board selects newspapers for digitization
December 18, 2023
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
November 28, 2023
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 […]
IDNC adds previously undigitized Daily Illini issues
October 17, 2023
Daily Illini issues from 1976 to 1992 now in the IDNC Users of the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections (IDNC), particularly locals or those with ties to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, may be acutely aware of the infamous gap in availability of Daily Illini issues from 1976 to 1992. The Illinois Newspaper Project is […]
Learn more about the INP and the NDNP Digitization Opportunity
August 16, 2023
Check out the digital flyers to learn more about the history of the Illinois Newspaper Project (INP) and the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Also learn about the current opportunity to nominate newspapers for a chance to be made freely available online. Click on either image to open the full flyer PDF. Interested in […]
Opportunity to participate: nominate a newspaper to be digitized and made freely available for research!
July 6, 2023
The Illinois Newspaper Project (INP) is now accepting nominations for newspapers to be digitized as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. All Illinois cultural heritage institutions (including libraries, museums, archives, and historical and genealogical societies) are invited to nominate newspapers on microfilm […]
Using the IDNC: May Fetes and the “Triumph of Spring” at the University of Illinois
May 11, 2023
The month of May at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is most notable for Mom’s Weekend and campus commencement celebrations, but one campus tradition of yore, the annual May Fete, was an event enjoyed by both mothers and graduating seniors. The May Fete was founded in 1899 when a group of 24 women students […]
Illinois Newspaper Project Seeks Nominations for Digitization
April 13, 2023
Do you know of a historic Illinois newspaper that you think should be digitized and made freely available online? The Illinois Newspaper Project is pleased to announce a proposal-based process for selecting Illinois newspapers for digitization, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Selected titles will receive long-term digital preservation and […]