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Search hundreds of newspapers and other news sources. Papers include the Chicago Sun-Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Kansas City Star, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Peoria Journal Star and State Journal-Register. Find additional newspapers in ProQuest Newspapers (Global Newsstream).

Articles from a number of African American papers, including the Afro-American (Baltimore/Washington, D.C.), Chicago Defender, Los Angeles Sentinel, Michigan Chronicle (Detroit) and New York Amsterdam News.

Full text, including display and classified advertisements, of this nationally significant African American newspaper from 1910 to 2010. (To search for articles in this paper from 2011 to present, use Black Newspapers or Illinois Newsstand.)

Full text of the Chicago Examiner from 1908 to 1918.

Articles from the Chicago Sun-Times from 1986 to the present.

Research Chicago history through the Chicago Sun-Times Historical and Current Collection with coverage from 1929 through current. Study trends, issues, events, advertisements, companies, and more through historical and current full newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online.

Historical Archive

• Chicago Sun-Times (1929 - 1985)   
  • Daily Times (1929 - 1947)
  • Chicago Sun (1941-1948)
  • Chicago Sun-Times (1948-1985)

Current Collection

• Chicago Sun-Times (1986 to the present)

Search or browse page images (as you would on microfilm) of the Chicago Sun-Times back to October 10, 2018. Earlier page images are available on physical microfilm at Harold Washington Library Center.

Full text of all articles in all editions and sections (including the RedEye) of the Chicago Tribune from 1985 to present.

Full text of the Chicago Tribune, including classified and display advertisements, from 1849 to 2015.

Full text of more than 4,000 U.S. newspapers from 1756 to 1963. Chicago-area papers are The Broad Ax, an African American newspaper digitized from 1895 to 1927; The Day Book, E.W. Scripps' experiment in advertisement-free newspaper publishing digitized from 1911 to 1917 and The Chicago Eagle, a publication with a strong focus on municipal political affairs digitized from 1889 to 1922.

Includes the Chicago Sun-Times, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights), News-Gazette (Champaign), Pantagraph (Bloomington), Peoria Journal Star and State Journal-Register (Springfield).

Articles from Illinois newspapers including the Chicago Defender, Chicago Tribune, Crain's Chicago Business, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights), La Raza, News Gazette (Champaign), and Pantagraph (Bloomington).

Articles from the New York Times back to 1980. Includes the New York Times Book Review and New York Times Magazine.

Full text of over 180 historical Illinois newspapers, including Chicago Daily News, The Inter Ocean, News Journal and The Daily Herald.

Search or browse page images (as you would view on microfilm) of over 40 newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Guardian, Indianapolis Star, New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. Coverage for most papers begins in 2008 and ends about three months prior to the present.

Articles from hundreds of newspapers and newsfeeds from around the world, including the Chicago Defender, Chicago Tribune, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights), New York Times, USA Today, Globe and Mail (Canada), The Times (London), The Times of India and Daily Yomiuri (Japan).Find additional newspapers in America's News.

Articles from the nation’s financial newspaper of record back to 1984.

Discover which of Chicago Public Library's magazine and newspaper databases includes the full text of a journal or article that you're looking for.