Illinois Newspaper Project

The Illinois Newspaper Project identifies, preserves, digitizes, and helps people use historical Illinois newspapers.

[Illinois Newspaper Project @ILNewsProject]

Happy gameday, Illini! This visualization, printed in the October 29, 1897, issue of The Illini (predecessor of the Daily Illini) accompanied a recap of the 1897 Purdue v. Illinois game. Illinois beat Purdue 32-4. Can you track the ball?

[Illinois Newspaper Project @ILNewsProject]

Summer is the perfect time to plan a camping trip! For this #ChronAmParty, we're looking through #PaperTrails for all our camping inspo. Here's a fashion tip from 1913. Full issue: https://t.co/Tv5QEg0nvD

[Illinois Newspaper Project @ILNewsProject]

The INP will take part in the Preservation Emporium this Saturday! Come learn tips to preserve family heirlooms & see how the INP preserves print heritage. Experts can answer your Qs in a number of areas, including photographs, paper, textiles, artwork, artifacts, & digital files

[Illinois Newspaper Project @ILNewsProject]

More #GardenParty advice from the August 29, 1891, Rock Island Daily Argus: "Refreshment tables may be supplied plentifully with good things--jellies, creams, babas with jam and cherries, grapes, peaches and an abundance of cream, ices, sandwiches of various kinds" #ChronAmParty

[Illinois Newspaper Project @ILNewsProject]

Take advantage of these warm spring days without the Illinois humidity and bugs by hosting a garden party! Not sure where to start? Perhaps Mrs. Frank Learned's article in the August 3, 1913 issue of the Chicago Examiner might be of use! #ChronAmParty #GardenParty

[Illinois Newspaper Project @ILNewsProject]

Much of our work is in preparing microfilmed newspapers for digitization--going through reels, creating metadata, noting irregularities. Occasionally we see clues from the past connecting us to those whose past work we build on. #ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesSnapShot

[Illinois Newspaper Project @ILNewsProject]

And...we couldn't resist also sharing these select seasonal hats of yore from the March 11, 1919 issue of The Quill (LaHarpe, Illinois). #OldFashion in the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections: https://t.co/H9ZmUo34WB #ChronAmParty

[Illinois Newspaper Project @ILNewsProject]

Happy #ChronAmParty day! With Easter just around the corner, we'd like to highlight *the* Easter dress of 1915, from the March 3, 1915, edition of the Day Book (Chicago, Ill.). #OldFashion. Browse the issue: https://t.co/eWrXFx3suo

[Illinois Newspaper Project @ILNewsProject]

The Black Newspapers collection also contains the only existing copy of the Chicago Reflector (October 16, 1897), thought to have run from 1895 to 1906. Contents of the 1897 issue suggest the Reflector functioned much like a small-town paper.

[Illinois Newspaper Project @ILNewsProject]

For today's #ChronAmParty, we're highlighting the 15 newspapers in our Black Newspapers collection, including the Illinois Times (Champaign, Ill.) and The Broad Ax (Chicago, Ill.). Newspapers in this collection predominately cover the second half of the 19th c. through the 1950s.

[Illinois Newspaper Project @ILNewsProject]

A local newspaper, The News-Gazette, has a Teacher of the Week feature. Last month, Carrie McMenamin, a local high school social studies instructor, gave the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections a shoutout. Thanks, Carrie! We hope your students had fun exploring the IDNC!

[Illinois Newspaper Project @ILNewsProject]

Did you know that the IDNC has a collection of newspapers published by Black writers, editors, & communities? This collection also features abolitionist newspapers. Image: front page of The Broad Ax (Chicago, Ill.) 6 August 1904. Check out our titles here: https://t.co/zMcQo1TRZj

[Illinois Newspaper Project @ILNewsProject]

Happy New Year! Here's the cover of the January 4, 1913 issue of the Ohio Farmer.

[Illinois Newspaper Project @ILNewsProject]

Signing off until the new year. We hope you all have a happy, healthy, and warm holiday season!

[Illinois Newspaper Project @ILNewsProject]

The Illinois Newspaper Project is thrilled to announce that the advisory board has chosen the following newspapers to be digitized as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grant. Read more about the titles on our blog: https://t.co/4tLml8xZhQ

[Illinois Newspaper Project @ILNewsProject]

Published #OnThisDay in 1941, the Daily Illini (Urbana, Ill.) reports on the December 7 attack on Pearl Harbor, a US military base in Hawaii. This event solidified the US's entrance into WWII. Full issue here: https://t.co/wUknW9YeWi

[Illinois Newspaper Project @ILNewsProject]

Updates to the IDNC include an improved image viewer, pagination under images, permanent links for issues, & updates to text correcting. We also have several new issues and titles up, including titles from 3 previously unrepresented counties! Read more: https://t.co/oXNT4c3DMa

[Illinois Newspaper Project @ILNewsProject]

The Cairo Bulletin (Cairo, Ill.) reported #OnThisDay in 1909 about a fire that broke out in a coal mine near Cherry, Ill. About 500 men and boys were working that day, and half of them perished. The Cherry Mine Disaster is one of the worst mining disasters in US history.

[Illinois Newspaper Project @ILNewsProject]

Published in The Broad Ax (Chicago, Ill.) #OnThisDay in 1924...how's that for a headline? whew😮‍💨

[Illinois Newspaper Project @ILNewsProject]

Happy Halloween! Will you be watching any of these movies tonight?