{"id":3518,"date":"2025-07-29T20:40:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/?p=3518"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:58:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:58:37","slug":"july-2025-new-idnc-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/july-2025-new-idnc-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2025: New titles added to the IDNC"},"content":{"rendered":"

New titles have been made available for research in the IDNC! This batch is particularly exciting because it includes the first newspapers available in the IDNC for three counties: Henry County, Monroe County, and Ogle County.<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

Champaign County:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Broadlands News<\/a> (Broadlands, Ill.) | Available dates: 1927\/10\/01 – 1948\/12\/23 (819 issues) *digital files donated to the IDNC by the Homer Historical Society
\nChampaign County Gazette<\/a> (Champaign, Ill.) | Available dates: 1869\/03\/03 – 1907\/12\/25 (1,965 issues)
\nChampaign County Herald<\/a> (Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1878\/01\/02 – 1902\/01\/08 (911 issues)
\nThe Champaign County News<\/a> (Champaign, Ill.) | Dates of new content: 1891\/02\/21 – 1917\/06\/30 (1,670 issues)
\nThe Champaign County Teachers’ Institute<\/a> (Urbana, Ill.) | Available date: 1895\/07\/29 (1 issue)
\nChampaign County Union<\/a> (Champaign, Ill.) | Available dates: 1861\/06\/06 – 1862\/05\/08 (4 issues)
\nChampaign County Union & Gazette<\/a> (Champaign, Ill.) | Available dates: 1863\/01\/29 – 1863\/08\/13 (3 issues)
\nThe Champaign Daily Gazette<\/a> (Champaign, Ill.) | Available dates: 1883\/11\/05 – 1919\/12\/11 (10,393 issues)
\nThe Champaign News-Gazette<\/a> (Champaign, Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1919\/12\/14 – 1932\/08\/31 (24 issues)
\nThe Champaign Times<\/a> (Champaign, Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1875\/08\/28 – 1879\/09\/27 (29 issues)
\nChampaign Union<\/a> (Champaign, Ill.) | Available dates: 1867\/04\/11 – 1879\/08\/20 (5 issues)
\nThe Champaign and Urbana Citizen<\/a> (Champaign, Ill.) | Available dates: 1931\/03\/20 – 1934\/08\/31 (180 issues)
\nThe Daily Re-Union<\/a> (Sidney, Ill.) | Available dates: 1884\/08\/21 – 1884\/08\/22 (2 issues)
\nThe Gazette and Union<\/a> (Champaign, Ill.) | Available dates: 1868\/02\/26 – 1869\/02\/24 (50 issues)
\nThe Rantoul Weekly Press<\/a> (Rantoul, Ill.) | Available dates: 1881\/11\/12 – 1884\/08\/15 (2 issues)
\nThe Signal<\/a> (Champaign, Ill.) | Available date: 1884\/10\/23 (1 issue)
\nTwin City Review<\/a> (Champaign, Ill.) | Dates of new content: 1926\/04\/02 – 1929\/10\/16 (185 issues)
\nThe Union and Gazette<\/a> (Champaign, Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1866\/04\/13 – 1868\/02\/19 (92 issues)
\nUrbana Union<\/a> (Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1853\/05\/05 – 1859\/08\/11 (35 issues)
\nThe Urbana Weekly Courier<\/a> (Urbana, Ill.) Available date: 1902\/11\/28 (1 issue)<\/p>\n

Cook County:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Harlem Post<\/a> (Forest Park\/Harlem, Ill.) | Available dates: 1895\/09\/12 – 1904\/08\/25 (455 issues) [German-language newspaper]
\nMovienews Weekly<\/a> (Chicago, Ill.) | Available dates: 1936\/10\/23 – 1937\/11\/26 (48 issues)<\/p>\n

DeKalb County:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The True Republican (1873-1970)<\/a> (Sycamore, Ill.) | Dates of new content: 1948\/07\/20 – 1949\/02\/22 (32 issues)<\/p>\n

Henry County: [newly represented county!]<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Kewanee Daily Courier<\/a> (Kewanee, Ill.) | Available dates: 1896\/05\/14 – 1898\/04\/28 (436 issues)
\nKewanee Daily Star-Courier<\/a> (Kewanee, Ill.) | Available dates: 1898\/05\/02 – 1898\/05\/14 (12 issues)<\/p>\n

Monroe County: [newly represented county!]<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Monroe County Clarion<\/a> (Columbia, Ill.) | Available dates: 1939\/06\/15 – 1976\/12\/29 (1,694 issues)<\/p>\n

Ogle County: [newly represented county!]<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Rochelle Herald<\/a> (Rochelle, Ill.) | Available dates: 1908\/07\/01 – 1914\/12\/30 (56 issues)<\/p>\n

Whiteside County:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Daily Blade<\/a> (Sterling, Ill.) | Available dates: 1881\/09\/20 – 1881\/09\/28 (4 issues)
\nRock Falls News<\/a> (Rock Falls, Ill.) | Available date: 1883\/07\/05 (1 issue)
\nTwin City Daily News<\/a> (Rock Falls, Ill.) | Available date: 1918\/02\/21 (1 issue)<\/p>\n

Williamson County:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Marion Weekly Leader<\/a> (Marion, Ill.) | Available dates: 1929\/01\/03 – 1946\/12\/26 (417 issues)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

More on the way!<\/p>\n

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New titles have been made available for research in the IDNC! This batch is particularly exciting because it includes the first newspapers available in the IDNC for three counties: Henry County, Monroe County, and Ogle County. Available dates (for new titles) and dates of new content (for existing IDNC titles) are formatted as YYYY\/MM\/DD. New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":815,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idnc","category-new-titles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3526,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions\/3526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}