Big Update of Illinois Online Historical Newspapers

I recently published a list of the catalog of online historical newspapers from over 400 different collections put together by the Advantage Preservation Company, developed in conjunction with the libraries, historical societies and museums across the U.S. who preserve the historical newspapers for their communities. To see the entire list go to Search 40 Million Historic U.S. Newspaper Pages for Free! It totals over 40 million pages from 37 states from the U.S.

Included in that list are the state of Illinois collections.

And just a couple of months ago as I have done two times a year since 2014, I updated the Illinois list of free links - Illinois Online Historical Newspapers Summary.

Here are the new County and Library collections that were not in the previous Illinois update.  There are a total of 8 new collections with a total of 56 newspapers now available to search.

County and Library Collections (listed by county; number of issues in parentheses)

Brown County
Brown County Public Library 

• Brown County Democrat (2312)
• Brown County Democrat Message (19570)
• Brown County Republican (5293)
• Democrat Message (68917)
• Examiner (8)
• Illinois Weekly Message (1278)

Cook County 
River Forest Public Library

• Forest Leaves (118565)
• Forest Leaves (211837)
• Oak Leaves (25914)
• River Forest Forest Leaves (11087)

Hancock County
Warsaw Public Library 

• Daily Warsaw Bulletin (16)
• Daily Warsaw City Bulletin (216)
• Hamilton Pilot (188)
• Hancock County Journal (396)
• Hancock County Journal Pilot (47436)
• Hancock County Pilot (4)
• Hancock Democrat (6)
• Hancock Eagle Extra (1)
• Hancock New Era (254)
• The Mississippi Pilot (1123)

• Warsaw Bulletin (35729)
• Warsaw City Bulletin (1389)
• Warsaw Commercial Journal (12)
• Warsaw Express (136)
• Warsaw Message (185)
• Warsaw Signal (1686)
• Warsaw Signal Extra (11)
• Warsaw Weekly Express (248)
• Western World (192)

Kane County
Town and Country Public Library District 

• Elburn Enterprise (4)
• Elburn Herald (91156)
• Elburn Weekly Record (24)

Logan County
Atlanta Public Library and Museum  

• Argus (160)
• Atlanta Argus (20614)
• Atlanta Argus And The Armington Helper (4903)
• Atlanta Argus Lens (56)
• Atlanta Daily Argus (168)
• McLean County News (8)
• McLean Lens (2103)

Ogle County
Polo Public Library 

• Ogle County Press (1274)
• Tri County Press (5238)

Whiteside County
Erie Illinois Public Library 

• Erie Independent (5317)
• Review (5124)

Sterling Public Library

• Daily Gazette (24337)
• Evening Gazette (14095)
• Fulton Journal (43)
• Republican and Gazette (274)
• Sterling Daily Gazette (3587)
• Sterling Daily Gazette And Daily Standard (1052)
• Sterling Daily Standard (45841)
• Sterling Evening Gazette (39986)
• Sterling Gazette (12982)
• Sterling Republic (30)

• Sterling Semi Weekly Gazette (1021)
• Sterling Standard (14166)

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I now have updated the entire state's collections again and this can be found at Illinois Online Historical Newspapers Summary.

Thanks to the libraries of Illinois for continuing to make their historic newspapers available for us to search and research!

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