{"id":3599,"date":"2026-03-25T21:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/?p=3599"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:36:16","slug":"march-2026-new-titles-added-to-the-idnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/march-2026-new-titles-added-to-the-idnc\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2026: New titles added to the IDNC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s a list of all new titles added to the\u00a0Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections<\/a>. 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.<\/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:<\/h4>\n

Boneyard Blast<\/a> (Champaign, Ill.) | Available dates: 1937\/10\/30 – 1939\/11\/04 (2 issues)
\nChampaign County Democrat (1860-1861)<\/a> (Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1861\/01\/12 – 1861\/08\/31 (16 issues)
\nChampaign County Democrat (1862)<\/a> (Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1862\/02\/13 – 1862\/10\/23 (22 issues)
\nChampaign County Democrat (1898-1900)<\/a> (Champaign, Ill.) | Available dates: 1899\/12\/01 – 1900\/01\/06 (5 issues)
\nChampaign County Patriot<\/a> (Champaign, Ill.) | Available dates: 1862\/11\/06 – 1863\/08\/06 (18 issues)
\nChampaign Illinois Democrat<\/a> (Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1861\/11\/06 – 1862\/01\/30 (4 issues)
\nChanute This Week<\/a> (Rantoul, Ill.) | Available dates: 1972\/03\/24 – 1972\/12\/21 (38 issues)
\nChanute Wings<\/a> (Rantoul, Ill.) | Available dates: 1966\/03\/03 – 1971\/10\/08 (80 issues)
\nThe Tolono Herald (1875-187?)<\/a> (Tolono, Ill.) | Available dates: 1875\/11\/26 – 1875\/12\/03 (2 issues)
\nThe Tolono Herald (192?-195?)<\/a> (Tolono, Ill.) | Available dates: 1928\/10\/26 – 1931\/02\/12 (74 issues)
\nTolono Weekly Herald<\/a> (Tolono, Ill.) | Available dates: 1878\/02\/08 – 1927\/03\/25 (189 issues)
\nThe Wings<\/a> (Rantoul, Ill.) | Available dates: 1952\/01\/07 – 1966\/02\/24 (726 issues)
\nWings (1971-1972)<\/a> (Rantoul, Ill.) | Available dates: 1971\/10\/15 – 1972\/03\/16 (21 issues)<\/p>\n

Cook County:<\/h4>\n

The Chicago Times<\/a> (Chicago, Ill.) | Available dates: 1861\/09\/03 – 1871\/05\/03 (17 issues)
\nChicago Weekly Times<\/a> (Chicago, Ill.) | Available dates: 1854\/12\/28 (1 issue)
\nThe Commercial Advertiser<\/a> (Chicago, Ill.) | Available dates: 1877\/10\/04 – 1878\/09\/26 (48 issues)
\nLawndale News<\/a> (Chicago, Ill.) | Available dates: 1974\/09\/26 – 1975\/02\/27 (17 issues)
\nNews Letter of the Woodlawn Organization<\/a> (Woodlawn, Ill.) | Available dates: 1964\/02\/29 – 1965\/12\/29 (28 issues) [Collection: Black Newspapers]<\/p>\n

Marion County:<\/h4>\n

The Egyptian Labor Journal<\/a> (Centralia, Ill.) | Available dates: 1945\/06\/01 (1 issue)<\/p>\n

Marshall County:<\/h4>\n

The Toluca Star<\/a> (Toluca, Ill.) | Available dates: 1895\/03\/23 – 1911\/10\/27 (504 issues)<\/p>\n

McClean County:<\/h4>\n

Bloomington Pantagraph (1870-1878)<\/a> (Bloomington, Ill.) | Available dates: 1870\/05\/18 – 1874\/12\/25 (239 issues)
\nMcLean County Farm and Home Bureau News<\/a> (Bloomington, Ill.)| Available dates: 1930\/03\/01 – 1974\/04\/01 (508 issues)<\/p>\n

St. Clair County:<\/h4>\n

East St. Louis Daily Journal (1890-1914)<\/a> (East St. Louis, Ill.) | Dates of new content: 1890\/03\/12 – 1898\/06\/09 (2,438 issues)*
\nThe East St. Louis Journal<\/a> (East St. Louis, Ill.) | Available dates: 1889\/01\/26 – 1890\/03\/08 (59 issues)*
\n*funding for digitization of this title provided by the St. Clair County Genealogical Society in partnership with the Illinois Newspaper Project<\/p>\n

Tazewell County:<\/h4>\n

The Tremont News<\/a> (Tremont, Ill.) | Available dates: 1897\/03\/05 – 1953\/09\/24 (131 issues)<\/p>\n

Union County:<\/h4>\n

Jonesboro Gazette and Egyptian Vindicator<\/a> (Jonesboro, Ill.) | Available dates: 1865\/11\/17 (1 issue)<\/p>\n

Whiteside County:<\/h4>\n

The Tampico Tornado<\/a> (Tampico, Ill.) | Dates of new content: 1943\/04\/08 – 1966\/03\/17 (1,197 issues)<\/p>\n

Non-IL Newspapers:<\/h4>\n

Svoboda<\/a> (Jersey City, NJ.) | Available dates: 1928\/12\/22 – 1977\/12\/31 (123 issues)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s a list of all new titles added to the\u00a0Illinois 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 […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599","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=3599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3601,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions\/3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}