The Illinois Newspaper Project is happy to announce the completion of our 2022 National Digital Newspaper Program grant (which took place between March 2023 and August 2025). We have officially digitized and provided access to the nine nominations selected by our advisory board for this grant cycle:
- Canton Weekly Register (Canton, Ill.) 1852-1914, nominated by Western Illinois University Archives & Special Collections
- The Citizen / Irish News and Chicago Citizen / The Chicago Citizen (Chicago, Ill.), 1882-1928, nominated by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library on behalf of an individual
- The Du Quoin Tribune (Du Quoin, Ill.), 1867-1871, nominated by Du Quoin Public Library
- East St. Louis Daily Journal (East St. Louis, Ill.), 1910-1926, nominated (twice!) by the St. Clair County Historical Society and the St. Clair County Genealogical Society
- Fulton Journal (Fulton, Ill.), 1877-1879, nominated by Schmaling Memorial Public Library District
- Genius of Liberty (Lowell, Ill.), 1840-1842, nominated by Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library on behalf of an individual
- Genius of Universal Emancipation (Hennepin, Ill.), 1838-1839, nominated by Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library on behalf of an individual
- The Grayville Herald / The Grayville Weekly Herald (Grayville, Ill.), 1855-1858, nominated by Groff Memorial Public Library & Museum
- The Greenville Advocate (Greenville, Ill.), 1858-1864, nominated by Bond County Historical Society
For this grant, we added 19 unique LCCNs (Library of Congress Calls Numbers, assigned when a newspaper title changes, noting preceding/succeeding titles of related newspapers), 10,879 issues, and 100,848 pages of historical newspapers available for research in both Chronicling America, the national digital newspaper collection hosted by the Library of Congress, and the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections, our own homegrown digital newspaper repository here at Illinois!
A Supplementary StoryMap
Interested in learning more about these titles? Explore our StoryMap for more information about each title, its nomination, and its historical contents!
Or, explore the issues in the IDNC:
– Canton Register (1849-1850) | January 26, 1849 and September 3, 1850 (2 issues)
– Canton Weekly Register (1850-1872) | January 17, 1852 through October 25, 1872 (879 issues)
– Canton Register (1872-1891) | November 1, 1872 through July 9, 1891 (840 issues)
– Canton Weekly Register (1891-1915) | July 16, 1891 through April 29, 1915 (1,187 issues)
– The Citizen | January 14, 1882 – January 30, 1897 (690 issues)
– The Chicago Citizen (1897-1919) | February 6, 1897 – March 14, 1919 (963 issues)
– The Irish News and Chicago Citizen | March 21, 1919 – April 28, 1922 (159 issues)
– Chicago Citizen | May 5, 1922 – November 9, 1928 (288 issues)
– The Du Quoin Tribune | March 28, 1867, through December 28, 1871 (246 issues)
– East St. Louis Daily Journal (1909-1914) | December 12, 1909 – May 7, 1914 (1,328 issues)
– The Daily Journal (1914-1918) | May 8, 1914 – June 5, 1918 (1,235 issues)
– East St. Louis Daily Journal (1918-1926) | June 6, 1918 – May 14, 1926 (2,452 issues)
– Fulton Journal | March 2, 1877 – December 26, 1879 (144 issues)
– Genius of Liberty | December 19, 1840 – April 2, 1842 (52 issues)
– Genius of Universal Emancipation | November 9, 1838 – September 13, 1839 (12 issues)
– The Grayville Herald (1855-1856) | August 11, 1855 – February 9, 1856 (24 issues)
– Grayville Weekly Herald | February 23, 1856 – July 3, 1858 (118 issues)
– The Grayville Herald (1858) | October 28, 1858 – November 24, 1858 (3 issues)
– The Greenville Advocate | February 11, 1858 – December 24, 1864 (257 issues)
THANK YOU!
The INP would like to thank all cultural heritage organizations who nominated a newspaper for digitization. We’ve kept a list of all nominated titles for potential use in future projects.