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Tazewell County Newspapers
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| The Tazewell County Genealogical & Historical Society library has the following titles on microfilm: | ||
Title |
Date Range Coverage |
| Delavan Advertiser Times | 2 Jun 1921 – 31 Oct 1929 |
| Delavan Times | 5 Sep 1874
– 31 Dec 1896 |
| Delavan Times Press | 7 Jan 1897 – 15 Jun 1910 |
| Delavan Tri-County Times | 22 Jun 1910 – 26 May 1921 |
| East Peoria Post | 21 Dec 1917 – 23 Dec 1926 |
| Green Valley Banner | 10 Nov 1899 – 28 Dec 1922 |
| Manito Express | 7 May 1896 – 3 May 1962 |
| Minier News | 18 Sep 1875 - 30 Dec 1927 |
| Minier Scrapbook | 1901 - 1955 |
| Morton News | 21 Jan 1909 – 22 Jul 1926 |
| Pekin Free Press | 2 May 1918 - 6 Dec 1934 |
| Pekin Weekly Times | 24 Oct 1873 – 23 Oct 1874 |
| Tazewell County Reporter (Washington) | 7 Jun 1917 – 27 May 1926 |
| Tazewell Independent (Washington) | 21 Nov 1878 – 27 Nov 1879 |
| Tazewell Register (Pekin) | 13 Jan 1859 – 22 Dec 1859 |
| Tazewell Republican (Washington) | 24 Feb 1860 – 14 Jun 1861 |
| Tremont News | 1893 - 1953 |
| Washington Investigator | 4 Mar 1858 – 3 Mar 1859 |
| Washington News | 16 Dec 1886 –
29 Nov 1894 |
| Washington Post |
5 Jan 1906 - 26 Dec 1912 |
| Washington Post & News |
27 Aug 1914 - 31 May 1917 |
| Washington Republican | 2 Dec 1880 – 21 May 1885 |
Note: Date range is not always complete.
TCGHS also has a few reels of miscellaneous newspapers which include a small amount of the Pekin Tazewell Republican, Pekin Time, Mason City Journal, Fulton Banner, Fulton Gazette, Mackinaw Gazette, Tazewell County Republican, Pekin Evening Post, Bloomington Bulletin, Bloomington Democratic News, Lincoln Sentinel, and the Peoria Register.
As of June 2012, we have
microfilm for the Pekin
Daily Times from October 3, 1914 through 1936.
Pekin
Public Library has the Times on microfilm
from 1914 through current issues. If you live
out of town, you can use our research services to
have us look up an obituary for you
at the library.
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield is another excellent source for Tazewell County newspapers on microfilm. As the mandated newspaper repository in Illinois, the Library holds titles from all 102 counties. The Library's 4,900 newspaper titles are preserved on nearly 73,000 microfilm reels.
And, the Illinois Newspaper Project (INP) is currently traveling the state cataloging newspaper collections. They cataloged our collection in October 2001. Click on Tazewell County on this map to get a list of the Tazewell County newspapers found by the INP so far.
