Here’s a list of all new titles added to the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections. Except from the titles from St. Clair County, these titles were digitized as part of a deal between Newspapers.com and the Illinois Newspaper Project. The titles from St. Clair County were digitized as part of a partnership between the Illinois Newspaper Project and the St. Clair County Genealogical Society, who provided funding toward the digitization of these titles.
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:
Boneyard Blast (Champaign, Ill.) | Available dates: 1937/10/30 – 1939/11/04 (2 issues)
Champaign County Democrat (1860-1861) (Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1861/01/12 – 1861/08/31 (16 issues)
Champaign County Democrat (1862) (Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1862/02/13 – 1862/10/23 (22 issues)
Champaign County Democrat (1898-1900) (Champaign, Ill.) | Available dates: 1899/12/01 – 1900/01/06 (5 issues)
Champaign County Patriot (Champaign, Ill.) | Available dates: 1862/11/06 – 1863/08/06 (18 issues)
Champaign Illinois Democrat (Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1861/11/06 – 1862/01/30 (4 issues)
Chanute This Week (Rantoul, Ill.) | Available dates: 1972/03/24 – 1972/12/21 (38 issues)
Chanute Wings (Rantoul, Ill.) | Available dates: 1966/03/03 – 1971/10/08 (80 issues)
The Tolono Herald (1875-187?) (Tolono, Ill.) | Available dates: 1875/11/26 – 1875/12/03 (2 issues)
The Tolono Herald (192?-195?) (Tolono, Ill.) | Available dates: 1928/10/26 – 1931/02/12 (74 issues)
Tolono Weekly Herald (Tolono, Ill.) | Available dates: 1878/02/08 – 1927/03/25 (189 issues)
The Wings (Rantoul, Ill.) | Available dates: 1952/01/07 – 1966/02/24 (726 issues)
Wings (1971-1972) (Rantoul, Ill.) | Available dates: 1971/10/15 – 1972/03/16 (21 issues)
Cook County:
The Chicago Times (Chicago, Ill.) | Available dates: 1861/09/03 – 1871/05/03 (17 issues)
Chicago Weekly Times (Chicago, Ill.) | Available dates: 1854/12/28 (1 issue)
The Commercial Advertiser (Chicago, Ill.) | Available dates: 1877/10/04 – 1878/09/26 (48 issues)
Lawndale News (Chicago, Ill.) | Available dates: 1974/09/26 – 1975/02/27 (17 issues)
News Letter of the Woodlawn Organization (Woodlawn, Ill.) | Available dates: 1964/02/29 – 1965/12/29 (28 issues) [Collection: Black Newspapers]
Marion County:
The Egyptian Labor Journal (Centralia, Ill.) | Available dates: 1945/06/01 (1 issue)
Marshall County:
The Toluca Star (Toluca, Ill.) | Available dates: 1895/03/23 – 1911/10/27 (504 issues)
McClean County:
Bloomington Pantagraph (1870-1878) (Bloomington, Ill.) | Available dates: 1870/05/18 – 1874/12/25 (239 issues)
McLean County Farm and Home Bureau News (Bloomington, Ill.)| Available dates: 1930/03/01 – 1974/04/01 (508 issues)
St. Clair County:
East St. Louis Daily Journal (1890-1914) (East St. Louis, Ill.) | Dates of new content: 1890/03/12 – 1898/06/09 (2,438 issues)*
The East St. Louis Journal (East St. Louis, Ill.) | Available dates: 1889/01/26 – 1890/03/08 (59 issues)*
*funding for digitization of this title provided by the St. Clair County Genealogical Society in partnership with the Illinois Newspaper Project
Tazewell County:
The Tremont News (Tremont, Ill.) | Available dates: 1897/03/05 – 1953/09/24 (131 issues)
Union County:
Jonesboro Gazette and Egyptian Vindicator (Jonesboro, Ill.) | Available dates: 1865/11/17 (1 issue)
Whiteside County:
The Tampico Tornado (Tampico, Ill.) | Dates of new content: 1943/04/08 – 1966/03/17 (1,197 issues)
Non-IL Newspapers:
Svoboda (Jersey City, NJ.) | Available dates: 1928/12/22 – 1977/12/31 (123 issues)