Newspapers Online
The University of Illinois offers full-text access to hundreds of current and historical newspapers through a number of databases. Browse the list below to find the right news source for your search.
Newsbank
Full-text articles from major metropolitan newspapers, international papers, and smalltown U.S. papers. This service includes both contemporary and historical databases. Access full-text articles from The News-Gazette (6/1/1997 to present) and Chicago Tribune (1985 to present). Click on America's Historic Newspapers (1690-1876), which features cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages as fully text-searchable facsimile images.
LexisNexis
Full-text access to hundreds of recent (and even not-so-recent) newspaper and magazine articles. Click on “Guided News Search” and select from a variety of regional perspectives under “World News,” “U.S. News,” “Wires,” and “Transcripts.” Then, enter your search terms and start searching. Note that you can restrict your search by date range. Some newspapers in Lexis-Nexis go back to the 1800s.
Library PressDisplay
Today's papers from around the world in their original full-page layout and design (advertisements and images intact). Over 250 titles from over 50 countries available online.
Proquest Historical Newspapers
Scroll to the bottom of the database menu to access these papers:
- Historical New York Times (1851-2003)
- Historical Chicago Tribune (1849-1985)
- Historical Chicago Defender (1905-1975)
- Historical Wall Street Journal (1889-1989)
A-Z List of Online Newspapers Available at UIUC
Scroll through this list to see the hundreds of current and historical newspapers you can access. When you select a title, you will be linked to LexisNexis, ProQuest, or another database to search the publication.