Online Resource

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.