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The Decatur Herald (Herald-Despatch Co., pub.; 1899−1980) – Decatur [6] Morning Herald-Dispatch (Herald-Despatch Co., pub.; 1890−1899) – Decatur [7] The Decatur Daily Despatch (W. F. Calhoun, pub.; 1889−189?) – Decatur [8] The Decatur Morning Herald (Hostetler & Ela, pub.; 1880−1890) – Decatur [9] The Herald-News – Joliet
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf , gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Google News Archive is an extension of Google News providing free access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web, both free and paid. Some of the news archives date back to 18th century. There is a timeline view available, to select news from various years.
The Rev. Alfred F. Wuensch founded the Decatur Review as a weekly newspaper in April 1872. [7] C.N. Walls founded the Daily Herald in 1878. In 1931, the morning Herald , by this time owned by the Lindsay family, and the evening, daily, Decatur Daily Review , owned by the Schaub family, merged their operations.
Newspaper begins 150th year today (August 29, 2002, updated October 14, 2013), Daily Journal. Newspaper sale announced (May 18, 2019), by Lee Provost, Daily Journal . This article about an Illinois newspaper is a stub .
The Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway (reporting mark EJE) was a Class II railroad, making a roughly circular path between Waukegan, Illinois and Gary, Indiana.The railroad served as a link between Class I railroads traveling to and from Chicago, although it operated almost entirely within the city's suburbs, only entering Chicago where it served the U.S. Steel South Works on the shores of ...
The newspaper was founded in 1831 as the Sangamo Journal by William Bailhache and Edward Baker, and describes itself as "the oldest newspaper in Illinois". As such, it and its editor, Edward L. Baker, supported the political career of the Springfield-based Abraham Lincoln in the years before the American Civil War; in fact, it was in the Journal ' s office that Lincoln and his friends waited ...
The city was founded in 1829 and is situated along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in Central Illinois. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 70,522. [4] It is the seventeenth-most populous city in Illinois. [5] Decatur has an economy based on industrial and agricultural commodity processing and production.