Research Tools

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.

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.

Explore your family history with the premier collection of U.S. obituaries and death notices for in-depth genealogical research from 1704 - today.

Search full-text (text only) local news in the Illinois Times, with coverage from 2003 to the present.

Browse and search the digitized version of the Illinois Times, with coverage from 1975-2014. Available for in-library use only. 

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.

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.

Digital newspaper archive of various editions of the Chicago Defender and Chicago Daily Defender, with coverage from 1909 to 2010. Offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.