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Advantage Archives Newspapers
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America's Newspapers
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Search full-text local, regional, and national news in The State Journal-Register, Chicago Sun-Times, Peoria Journal Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and more.
Chicago Sun-Times
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Explore Chicago history through local news, events and people with the Chicago Sun-Times Collection. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online.
HeritageHub
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Explore your family history with the premier collection of U.S. obituaries and death notices for in-depth genealogical research from 1704 - today.
Illinois Times
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Search full-text (text only) local news in the Illinois Times, with coverage from 2003 to the present.
Illinois Times Image Edition
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Browse and search the digitized version of the Illinois Times, with coverage from 1975-2014. Available for in-library use only.
Newspapers.com World Collection
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Online access to 4,000+ historical newspapers from the early 1700s into the 2000s. Includes thousands of well-known, regional and state titles to small local newspapers in the United States and other countries.
Peoria Journal Star
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Explore Peoria history through local news, events and people with the Peoria Journal Star Collection. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online.
Prairie Flame
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Search and browse image editions of the Prairie Flame, a newspaper that reported "news of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered people of downstate Illinois and those who support them in their quest for equality."