Tim-- The Illinois Newspaper Project maintains a database of old Illinois newspapers. There seem to be a couple for Chenoa, the Clipper and the Gazette, in the time frame you are interested in. You need to contact the library holding the copies directly--in this case, the Illinois State Historical Library. Newspaper project address: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/techserv/inp/webpages/main.htm (Click on "INP Newspaper database" and enter "Chenoa" for the town and Illinois for the state in the search fields to see a full listing of the holdings for Chenoa.) State Historical Library address: http://www.state.il.us/hpa/lib/ I believe their microfilms are available through inter-library loan. I haven't tried borrowing microfilms yet, but I have found them to be very helpful in other cases when I dealt with them. I think they can do limited lookups for a fee. Good luck! Dan Steffen At 08:00 AM 1/12/01 -0800, you wrote: >______________________________X-Message: #2 >Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 05:58:05 -0600 >From: "Tim Chambers" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [ILMCLEAN-L] Chenoa Newspaper >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > >I would like to search through old copies of the Chenoa Clipper newspaper, >or whatever it may have been called during the late 1800's. Does anyone >know where I might find, the most complete collection of these newspapers? >Is there anyone out there who has access to these papers, and might want to >do a few lookups for me? > >Thanks, >Tim Chambers >[email protected]