Newspapers

Obituaries, town happenings, world events, and pop culture come together in your local newspaper. The Archives holds a comprehensive collection of titles from Champaign County, spanning 1852 to the present. Most are available on microfilm. A complete list of newspapers and date ranges available in the Archives is available [PDF file].

Digitized Historic Champaign County Newspapers

Available through the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections

• Banker Farmer (1913-1927)

• The Champaign County News (1900-1916)

• The Champaign Daily News (1895-1919)

• Daily Illini (1874-2010), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 

• The Gargoyle (1921-2006), University High School, Urbana, IL

• The Hillel Bulletin (1924-1955), a Jewish-American newspaper 

• The Illinois Times (1949-1963), an African-American newspaper 

• The Prospectus (1968-2020), Parkland College

• Sidney Times (1908-1910)

• The St. Joseph Record (1894-1980)

• The Student (1871-1873), Illinois Industrial University

• Twin City Review (1920-1926), labor union paper

• Urbana Daily Courier (1903-1935)