Illinois Digital Newspaper Project

FAIN: PJ-287774-22

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Champaign, IL 61801-3620)
Celestina Savonius-Wroth (Project Director: January 2022 to present)
William Schlaack (Co Project Director: August 2022 to present)

The digitization of 100,000 pages of historical Illinois newspapers with a focus on suburban areas and southern regions of the state.

The Illinois Digital Newspaper Project at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign seeks funding to digitize 100,000 pages of newspaper content representing geographically and demographically diverse Illinois communities. The titles will be selected through a proposal process open to all Illinois libraries and cultural heritage repositories. This approach will yield a list of Illinois newspapers for digitization from geographic areas and demographic groups of Illinois (including suburbs, regional cities, rural communities, and small towns) that are not yet represented in Chronicling America. It will also serve as an opportunity to promote the importance and value of the National Digital Newspaper Program, the Library of Congress, and the National Endowment for the Humanities to interested citizens throughout the state. The Illinois Digital Newspaper Project has contributed over 500,000 pages of newspaper content to the National Digital Newspaper Program since 2009.