Barrington Area Library-Historical Newspaper Resources
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Access World News: Chicago Sun-Times Historical and Current Collection. Full page reproductions of the paper under various names dating from 1929.
Barrington Review (Historical): Full page reproductions of the paper from 1890-1939. Digitized papers from 1940-2019 are available at the library.
Chicago Daily News Historical Archive: Full page reproductions of the paper from 1875-1978.
Chicago Tribune (Historical): Full page reproductions of the paper from 1849-2000.
FamilySearch: Searchable using the AI feature, indexes to GenealogyBank, indexes in Storied.
Fold3: A small selection of newspapers from the US and UK.
Heritage Hub: Obituaries from 1704 through today. Full page reproductions and other death records.
New York Times (Historical): Full page reproductions of the paper from 1851-2021.
Newspaper Archive: Full page reproductions of Illinois newspapers dating to 1831.
Historical Newspapers Online-Subscription Databases
Ancestry.com: All Access includes all databases, newspapers.com and Fold3 ($720/yr).
Find My Past: British and Irish Newspapers ($300/yr for full access to all databases).
GenealogyBank: A collection of newspapers dating to the 1690s. ($80/yr).
Newspaper Archive: Access to newspapers from the 1700s. (Illinois portion available through the library; free full access if you are an NGS member, $140/yr or $100/yr with Storied).
Newspapers.com: A collection of over 29,000 digitized newspapers dating from the late-1700s. (Stand-alone $150/yr or add to an Ancestry.com account).
Old News: Over 41,000 digitized historical newspapers world-wide. (Stand-alone $100/yr or with a MyHeritage account).
Historical Newspapers Online-Free Resources
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Chronicling America contains millions of newspaper pages from nearly every state and territory in the United States published from 1736-1963.
Old Fulton New York Postcards: Besides post cards, there is a database of digitized newspapers from New York and some other states and Canada.
Small Town Papers: Digitized community newspapers dating from the 1850s onward.
Illinois Newspaper Project: University of Illinois. The Illinois Newspaper Project (INP) identifies, preserves, and digitizes Illinois newspapers, some as far back as the 1840s.
Elephind: Includes digitized historic newspapers from collections around the world.
Cyndi’s List: Newspapers. Multitude of links to newspapers world-wide.
FamilySearch: Use the Wiki to find national and international newspaper websites.
International, Regional, State, and Local Archives and Libraries.
New News-Free with a BALibrary Card
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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Tribune
Daily Herald
New York Times and New York Times Cooking
Northwest Herald
PressReader
USA Today
Wall Street Journal
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Libby: Access national and international magazines
PressReader: Access national and international newspapers