{"id":3619,"date":"2026-04-23T16:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/?p=3619"},"modified":"2026-04-28T20:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:34:12","slug":"april-2026-new-titles-added-to-the-idnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/april-2026-new-titles-added-to-the-idnc\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2026: New titles added to the IDNC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below is a list of all new newspaper titles added to the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections<\/a> this month. Specialized newspapers include a few issues of an anti-saloon newspaper published in Urbana, Illinois; four farm bureau newspapers; three newspapers from Black communities in Chicago, Illinois; and two newspapers published out of Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois. This batch also includes additional issues of Vilnis, a Lithuanian-language newspaper published in Chicago with an English section published on Fridays.<\/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:<\/h3>\n

\"Masthead<\/a><\/p>\n

The Chanute Field News and the Air Service Technical School Bulletin<\/a> (Rantoul, Ill.) | Available dates: 1926\/01\/15 – 1926\/07\/02 (12 issues)
\nThe Urbana Clarion<\/a> (Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1859\/10\/29 – 1860\/09\/01 (19 issues)
\nThe Urbana Issue<\/a> (Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1913\/03\/08 – 1913\/04\/12 (5 issues) [Anti-saloon newspaper]
\nThe U.S. Air Corps News<\/a> (Rantoul, Ill.) | Available dates: 1926\/07\/15 – 1926\/12\/21 (11 issues)
\nWeekly Courier-Herald<\/a> (Urbana, Ill.) | Available dates: 1905\/10\/20 – 1910\/04\/29 (3 issues)<\/p>\n

Clark County:<\/h3>\n

Clark County Farm Bureau News<\/a> (Marshall, Ill.) | Available dates: 1945\/10\/20 – 1962\/05\/19 (259 issues)<\/p>\n

Cook County:<\/h3>\n

Vilnis<\/a> (Chicago, Ill.) | Dates of new content: 1951\/08\/01 – 1974\/06\/27 (207 issues) [Lithuanian-language newspaper; English section printed on Fridays]
\nThe Weekly Chicago Times<\/a> (Chicago, Ill.) | Available dates: 1856\/04\/03 – 1861\/05\/23 (124 issues)
\nWest Side Torch<\/a> (Chicago, Ill.) | Available dates: 1965\/09\/01 – 1971\/11\/01 (117 issues) [Black Newspapers collection]
\nWest Side Times<\/a> (Cicero, Ill.) | Available dates: 1974\/10\/03 (1 issue)
\nWoodlawn Booster (Chicago, Ill.) | Available dates: 1961\/05\/24 – 1967\/08\/01 (31 issues) [Black Newspapers collection]
\nWoodlawn Booster and Bulletin<\/a> (Chicago, Ill.) | Available dates: 1967\/09\/05 – 1970\/04\/28 (43 issues) [Black Newspapers collection]<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/a>
Left: Woodlawn Booster (Chicago, Ill.), September 12, 1967; Right: West Side Torch (Chicago, Ill.), January 2, 1971<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

DeWitt County:<\/h3>\n

The Wapella Herald<\/a> (Wapella, Ill.) | Available dates: 1900\/09\/21 (1 issue)<\/p>\n

Ford County:<\/h3>\n

Farm Bureau News of Ford County<\/a> (Gibson City, Ill. and Melvin, Ill.) | Available dates: 1921\/07\/01-1971\/11\/01 (687 issues)
\nFord-Iroquois Farm Bureau News<\/a> (Watseka, Ill.) | Available dates: 1974\/03\/21-1984\/03\/28 (114 issues)<\/p>\n

\"Front<\/a>
Left: Clark County Farm Bureau News, April 1949; Right: Ford-Iroquois Farm Bureau News, March 21, 1974<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kane County:<\/h3>\n

Aurora Daily Beacon-News<\/a> (Aurora, Ill.) | Available dates: 1925\/01\/01 – 1926\/12\/31 (729) *digital files donated by the Aurora Public Library District<\/p>\n

McClean County:<\/h3>\n

McLean County Farm Bureau News<\/a> (Bloomington, Ill.) | Available dates: 1921\/05\/01-1929\/12\/01 (85 issues)<\/p>\n

Tazewell County:<\/h3>\n

The Tremont-Hopesdale News<\/a> (Tremont, Ill.) | Available dates: 1953\/11\/19 – 1953\/11\/26 (2 issues)<\/p>\n

Will County:<\/h3>\n

The Wilmington Independent<\/a> (Wilmington, Ill.) | Available dates: 1861\/09\/26 – 1868\/10\/14 (356 issues)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Below is a list of all new newspaper titles added to the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections this month. Specialized newspapers include a few issues of an anti-saloon newspaper published in Urbana, Illinois; four farm bureau newspapers; three newspapers from Black communities in Chicago, Illinois; and two newspapers published out of Chanute Air Force Base in […]<\/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":[4,38,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farm-newspapers","category-idnc","category-new-titles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619","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=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3634,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions\/3634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/illinoisnewspaperproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}