The Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections continues to grow! Our team has just added three new titles, as well as additional issues to an existing title, to the IDNC. With this latest batch, we’ve added one new county (Morgan County) to our coverage map. Exciting stuff! (See the full coverage map on our homepage: https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/) New […]
Illinois Newspaper Project Blog
New issues and titles in the IDNC: June 2024
June 18, 2024
New issues and titles added to the IDNC
March 27, 2024
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.) […]
Spanish Influenza vs. COVID-19
January 17, 2024
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, […]