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There were
no newspaper published in the present day county prior to 1852. Prior to
1852 the Danville, Vermilion County, IL, newspaper was used for legal and
official publications. Below is listed the various newspapers that have
been published in the county, the time period and if there are missing
issues. There is also reference to a German language newspaper being
published in the county but to-date no copies of this newspaper have been
found. If you locate any of the missing issues, they can be sent to the
Illinois State Historical Newspaper Library for microfilming or to the
Champaign County Historical Archives in care of Joan Lund. Newspapers are
listed by the town of publication, the name and the time period and a
little bit of history of the paper. Often, newspapers were used for insulation of older buildings so watch when tearing down old buildings. You may have copies of the missing issues! They are usually rolled up very tightly. DO NOT TRY TO UNROLL THEM let professionals do it. |
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Allerton (Covered Champaign and Vermillion Counties) |
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| Times: | Jan 4, 1907 | |||
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Broadlands |
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Boardlands
News (Missing Issues: 1952. Jun 26; 1956, Nov 23; 1957, Jul 26; 1960, Jun 17.) |
1941-1972,- became the Southern Champaign County Today (Villa Grove) | |||
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Chanute Air Force Base |
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Air Puffs (Missing Issues: 1918, Apr 12, 26, May17, Jun 28-Ag 1, 15) |
1918 (published in Champaign) | |||
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Wings (Missing Issues: 1941, May 30, July 18-Aug 1, Sept 5, Oct 10, 24, Nov 17; 1950, Dec 11; 1951 Jan 15, Apr 9; 1952, Sept 25; 1953, Jan 5-19) |
1941 | |||
| Champaign-Urbana | ||||
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Urbana Union
- first paper in the county (Missing issues: 1854, May 25?, Dec 21?; 1855, Apr 19-26?, Oct 4?; 1856, Aug 7, Nov 13; 1864, Dec 23?-30; 1866, Jun 22, July 6:, Sept 7?.) |
September 25, 1852, published 36 issues in Urbana - W. N. Coller and H. K. Davis, Editors and Owners; resumed July 14, 1853 to March, 1854 - Benjamin A. Roney and Joseph O. Cunningham; until 1855 - Cunningham and George N. Richards; August 1858 - Cunningham and George W. Flynn;: until 1861 - David S. and Charles E. Crandall; and moved to Champaign; 1861 to 1863 - John Carrothers combined with the Gazette and known as the Champaign County Union & Gazette. | |||
| The Spirit of the Agricultural Press | May 1857 to winter 1857 - . L. G. Chase and Albert Gore; it was renewed by Dr. John W. Scroggs who became associated with Cunningham and Flynn and continued for about two months and became the Central Illinois Gazette. | |||
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Central
Illinois Gazette (Missing Issues) |
1858-1862, 1864-1866. Originally located in Champaign it moved to Urbana 1864. Dr. John W. Scroggs, Owner; William A. Stoddard, editor. Became the Champaign County Union & Gazette | |||
| Champaign County Union & Gazette | 1866 to February 24, 1869 and became the Champaign County Gazette (OCLC has 1863 issues) | |||
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Our
Constitution (Missing Issues: 1857, Mar 21-28, June 13, Aug 1-8, Oct 10; 1858 Jan 16, Mar 27, May 29, July 10, Oct 2; 1859, July 9) |
July 22, 1856 to fall 1859 - originally published in Urbana and moved to Champaign and was discontinued. N. Richards and Jacob Zimmerman | |||
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Champaign
County Gazette (Missing Issues: 1867, JI 3?; 1868, JI 8?) |
March 1869 - 1919 - Mr. George Scroggs and Mr. Flynn | |||
| Gazette and Union | see Champaign County Gazette | |||
| Gazette | see Champaign County Gazette | |||
| Urbana Clarion | October 22, 1859 until following year. Erastur A. Munger and Lyman E. Knapp. See The Hickory Boy. | |||
| Hickory Boy | suspended after 1860 election - J. W. Jaquith, Esq. | |||
| Champaign County Journal | January 1866 for about a year - Messrs. Daniel McKinzie and Geo. W. Gere>Jarvis D. Hurd and Mr. B. B. Andrews. Its equipment sold and became the Illinois Democrat. | |||
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Illinois
Democrat (Missing Issues: 1868, Aug 7, Oct 30; 1869, June 25, Oct 15) |
March 1867 - March 1868 and moved to Champaign - Geo. N. Richards and Rufus P. Canterbury; March 1868 moved Urbana - Mr. Richards; April 2, 1869 P. Lochrie entered parternship and returned to Champaign in 1872 and Major William Haddock was owner. Named changed to Liberal Democrat. | |||
| Liberal Democrat | prior name was Illinois Democrat and the changed to The Champaign Times. | |||
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Champaign
Times (Missing Issues) |
1885, 1909 see Liberal Democrat | |||
| Urbana Tocsin |
(First mention of it is February 23, 1870
in the Champaign Co. Gazette) May 4, 1869 - Mr. Frank M. Snyder and name changed to the Urbana Republican |
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| Urbana Republican | Fire in April 1871 destroyed Mr. Snyder office and his home but the paper was restarted. | |||
| Champaign Journal | A German paper, started in Champaign June 1876 - Messrs. Theodore Fisher and John Becker. | |||
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Champaign
County Herald (Weekly) (Missing Issues: summer 1895, 1923: Jan 3-4, Jan 27) |
Dec. 5, 1877
in Urbana by Messrs. A. T. Lewis and S. C. Harris. Harris left in a few
weeks; continued until 189_.
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Champaign
County Democrat (Missing Issues) |
1861-1862 published in Urbana; 1899-1900 published in Champaign. | |||
| Champaign Citizen | 1913 | |||
| Champaign & Urbana Citizen | 1931-1934 | |||
| Champaign & Vermilion County Herald (Missing Issues) | 1989 | |||
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Champaign
County Patriot (Missing Issues) |
1862-1863 published in Urbana | |||
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Champaign
County Union (Missing Issues: 1854, May 25?, Dec 21?; 1855, Apr 19-26?, Oct 4?; 1856, Aug 7, Nov 13; 1864, Dec 23?-30; 1866, June 22, July 6?, Sept 7?) |
1861-1862 published in Champaign | |||
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Champaign
County News (Missing Issues: 1899, F 15, Mar 25, Apr 4; 1910, Jan 1, 22, Mar 16, 23-30; Apr 6-9, May 14-21; 28, Aug 3-13, 24-31) |
1891-1917 | |||
| News | Daily Edition of the Champaign County News - Now the News-Gazette | |||
| Champaign County News-Gazette | 1919 (current) | |||
| Courier Cornbelter | 1914 and 1915 | |||
| Illini | 1925 | |||
| Daily Illini | Campus paper | |||
| Home and Fireside | June 29, 1886 | |||
| I.P.A. Bulletin | See Illinois Press | |||
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Illini News (Missing Issues: 1937, Oct 25; Dec 7; 1939, Mar 2, Dec) |
1937-1940 | |||
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Courier (Missing Issues: 1920, Jan 27, Feb 13, 20, Apr 30, Oct 2; 1921, Dec 13; 1922, Jan 14, Mar 14, 16, 27; Apr, 1, 8, 27, May 8, 13, 23 27-29; June 7, 9, 14; 1923, Mar 8; 1924, Jan 8, Feb 21, Aug 31; 1925, July 2, Aug 18; 1926, Mar 13, Apr 9, Oct 6; 1927, Jan 13, Mar 5, Apr 6; 1929, July 24, Aug 5-31, Sep 26, Nov 13; 1931, Feb 4) |
1915-1950 | |||
| Illinois Editorial Review | 1944 | |||
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Illinois
Press (Missing Issues: 1947, Oct.) |
1943-1961 | |||
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Independent (Missing Issues: 1939, Oct 21, Nov 4, Dec 2, 16) |
1937-1940 | |||
| Leader | June 30, 1983 | |||
| Daily News | Campus - 1977. Issues missing. | |||
| Saturday Visitor | see Union | |||
| Sirkus Siren | May 12, 1908 | |||
| Champaign County Voice | 1989 | |||
| Spectator | Feb 20-Mar 6, 1961? | |||
| Fisher | ||||
| Fisher Courier | Short leaved. | |||
| News | 1914, 1915 | |||
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Reporter (Missing numerous Issues 1902 thru 1943) |
1900-1913, 1915+ | |||
| Homer | ||||
| Journal | 1859-1865; 1865-1870 Mr. George Knapp, Editor; John W. Summers; W. H. Rhodes; John S. Harper - was known to be published in Sidney, Philo, Tolono and then went to another county. | |||
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Enterprise (Missing numerous Issues) |
October 12, 1877 - 1965 C. Cromer | |||
| Ivesdale (covers Champaign/Piatt counties) | ||||
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News (Missing issues: 1908, Apr 24, May 29-Jul 10, Oct 23; 1913, Jun 20; 1941, Jan 10) |
1908, 1918, 1939, 1940, 1941 | |||
| Mahomet | ||||
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Sucker Sheet No surviving issues known. |
Printed 1911 - 1957 | |||
| Citizen | Feb 13, 1975+ | |||
| Ogden | ||||
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Courier (Missing various issues) |
1918-1980 | |||
| Leader | 1979+ | |||
| Pesotum | ||||
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Chief (Many issues missing) |
1916-1936 | |||
| Tribune | 1910 | |||
| Philo | ||||
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Pilot (Missing Issus: 1909, Nov. 5; 1910, Feb 25, Nov 4-11; 1911, Ag 18) |
1909-1911 | |||
| Rantoul | ||||
| Rantoul News | March 15, 1874 - Gray brothers. Last only a few issues. In July 1874 Messrs. Bullock, Cross and Gifford purchased the office. In June 1878 it consolidated with the Rantoul Journal. | |||
| Rantoul Journal | October 28, 1875 - H. W. Gulick and F. E. Pinkerton. June 1878 consolidated with the Rantoul News. | |||
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Press (Missing Issues: 1905, Aug 18-Sep 1; 1959 Oct 15; 1960, Apr 14, Nov 14) |
1901-1909 become Chanute Field News. | |||
| The Rantoulian | Combined papers of Rantoul News and Rantoul Journal. | |||
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Chanute
Field News (Missing Issues: 1941, May 30, Jul 18-Aug 1, Sept 5, Oct 10, 24, Nov 3-10; 1948, Nov 30; 1949, Jun 24-Jul 1, 15 Aug 1, Oct 17; 1950, Dec 11; 1951, Jan 15, Apr 9; 1952, Sept 15; 1953, Jan 5-19) |
1941-1951; 1952-1973 (published in Champaign) | |||
| Sadorus | ||||
| Herald | 1932 | |||
| St. Joseph | ||||
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Record (Missing Issues) |
1883, 1894-1916, 1918-1921, 1922, 1923-1980+ | |||
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Sidney |
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By-Way (Missing Issues) |
1886-1891, 1900, 1902 | |||
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Times (Missing Issues) |
1906-1972 see Southern Champaign County Today (Villa Grove) | |||
| Tolono | ||||
| County Star | 1979+ | |||
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Herald (Missing Issues) |
1875-1952 | |||
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South-Side
Journal (Missing Issues: 1962, Mar 22) |
1957-1963, Changed to Southside Journal 1963-1979 | |||
| West Urbana (see listing under Champaign-Urbana) | ||||
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History
of Champaign County, IL 1878 On-line data base of the Illinois Newspaper Project. Illinois Libraries, March-April 1988 Vol 70 No,. 3-4 |
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