Online Tools

Access World News

A comprehensive news collection with local, regional, national and international coverage. Great for exploring a specific event or for comparing a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people. Diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos.

Full-text coverage, 1986-current

Chicago Tribune

Full-text coverage 1849-current

Historical Chicago Tribune

Full-text with PDFs of the pages from the original papers; coverage 1851-2004

LexisNexis Express (legal module only available in-library)

Access over 6000 legal, business and news sources. News coverage includes national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcipts, and international news. The Company Dossier module provides detailed company and financial information. The legal collection, available only in-house, contains federal and state court cases back to 1789. 

NewsBank Chicago

Search multiple Chicagoland newspapers at the same time including the Chicago Sun-Times, the Daily Herald and the Oak Leaves.

Oak Leaves

Full-text articles from this weekly local paper from 9/27/1995 to current.

Regional Business News

Incorporates 50 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.