http://www.neh.gov/preservation/usnp.html UNITED STATES NEWSPAPER PROGRAM The United States Newspaper Program is a cooperative national effort among the states and the federal government to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm newspapers published in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. Funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Technical assistance is furnished by the Library of Congress. Last updated: January 2000. ILLINOIS Status: Current Accomplishments: 8,700 titles cataloged by the Chicago Historical Society and the Illinois State Historical Library; 5,500 titles cataloged in Chicago-area repositories; concurrently, 5,200 titles cataloged at the University of Illinois and other repositories NEH support: $2,477,043 Cheryl Pence Illinois State Historical Library Newspaper Library Old State Capitol Springfield, IL 62701 telephone: 217-785-7941 website: http://www.state.il.us/hpa/lib/#NEWSPAPERS Linda Evans, Chief Cataloger Chicago Historical Society 1601 North Clark Street Chicago, IL 60614 telephone: 312-642-5035 ext 311 e-mail: evans@chicagohistory.org website: http://www.chicagohistory.org/newspaper.html Sharon E. Clark, Newspaper Librarian 1 Main Library MC-522 1408 W. Gregory Drive University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801 telephone: 217-233-2579 e-mail: s-clark3@uiuc.edu website: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/techserv/inp/main.htm You can go to the last one and search by town and county. I haven't tried the others. Cheryl Rothwell LoganCty@mindspring.com