Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Cortland.
Our newspaper information for Cortland is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.
The following list contains the names of 1 papers that were published in the immediate area of Cortland. In addition, the list contains another 149 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Cortland. In total, we've identified 150 papers within 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> of Cortland.
To keep this list from growing too long, not all of the papers have been listed. We have another list where all the papers have been listed in alphabetical order. The complete list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Cortland.
Newspapers Published In Cortland ...
We know of only one newspaper that was published in the Cortland area:
- The Enterprise (from 1877)
- The first year of publication was in 1877, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Enterprise
- Holdings for: LCCN SN92053436
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 27110890
Newspapers Neighboring Cortland ...
The following newspapers were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> of Cortland.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Cortland.
- Published In De Kalb ...
- De Kalb County Chronicle (from 1879)
- De Kalb County Leader (from 1925)
- De Kalb County News (from 1867)
- De Kalb Daily Independent (from 1915)
- De Kalb Evening Chronicle (from 1895)
- DeKalb County Journal (from 1970)
- DeKalb Daily Index (from 1878)
- Dekalb Sentinel (from 1936)
- Dekalb Weekly Times (from 1860)
- News From Nowhere (from 1968)
- News From Nowhere (from 1968)
- Northern Star
- The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in current
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Northern Star
- Holdings for: LCCN SN96071124
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 36064715
- Sunday Journal (from 1969)
- The Daily Chronicle (from 1970)
- The De Kalb Advertiser (from 1904)
- The De Kalb Chronicle (from 1885)
- The De Kalb Review (from 1883)
- The DeKalb Chronicle (from 1907)
- The DeKalb Daily Advertiser (from 191?)
- The DeKalb Daily Chronicle (from 1909)
- The DeKalb Daily News (from 1907)
- The Evening Star (from 1880)
- The Malta Chronicle (from 18??)
- The Malta Mail
- The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in 19??
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Malta Mail
- Holdings for: LCCN SN92053435
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 27110852
- The Midweek (from 19??)
- Published In Sycamore ...
- We know of 29 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Sycamore. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Sycamore
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> of Cortland. This extended list includes all the papers from Sycamore. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Cortland
- Published In Malta ...
- The Malta Record (from 18??)
- Published In Hinckley ...
- Country Courier (from 1991)
- Hinckley Review (from 1878)
- The Review (from 1986)
- Published In Waterman ...
- Waterman Free Press (from 187?)
- Waterman Leader (from 1878)
- Published In Elburn [Kane County] ...
- Chronicle West (from 1978)
- The Elburn Enterprise (from 1893)
- The Elburn Herald (from 1908)
- The Elburn Record (from 18??)
- The Elburn Weekly Record (from 1889)
- The Kane County Farmer (from 1946)
- Published In Genoa ...
- Genoa Kingston Kirkland News (from 1972)
- Genoa Republican-Journal (from 1904)
- The Genoa Issue (from 18??)
- The Genoa Journal (from 1900)
- The Genoa Republican (from 1902)
- The Genoa Republican (from 1919)
- Published In Creston [Ogle County] ...
- Morris' Creston Times (from 1881)
- The Creston Observer (from 1887)
- The Creston Observer (from 2002)
- The Creston Times (from 1872)
- Weekly Observer (from 2003)
- Published In Shabbona ...
- De Kalb County Express (from 192?)
- The Shabbona Express
- Waterman News (from 1935)
- Published In Hampshire [Kane County] ...
- Hampshire Journal (from 2005)
- Hampshire Register News (Hampshire, Ill : 1988) (from 1988)
- The Hampshire Register (from 1885)
- Published In Plano [Kendall County] ...
- Kendall County Journal (from 1856)
- Plano Record (from 19??)
- Plano Times (from 1884)
- The Kendall County News (from 18??)
- The Plano Mirror (from 1868)
- The Plano Pivot (from 1885)
- The first year of publication was in 1885, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Plano Pivot
- Holdings for: LCCN SN93055442
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 27732983
- Published In Batavia [Kane County] ...
- Batavia Bulletin-Record (from 1891)
- Batavia Chronicle (from 1976)
- Batavia Herald (from 1893)
- Batavia Weekly Argus (from 18??)
- Batavia Windmill (from 199?)
- Fox River Star (from 1909)
- North Aurora Herald (from 199?)
- Rock City Record (from 18??)
- Sugar Grove Herald Blackberry Press (from 199?)
- The Batavia News (from 1869)
- The Batavia Weekly News (from 1869)
- The Daily Tribune (from 1904)
- The Forest Press (from 1904)
- The Fox River Times (from 1875)
- The Herald (from 1962)
- Windmill Herald (from 1990)
- Windmill News (from 1982)
- Windmill News (from 1987)
- Continue List (5 more) ...
- Published In Geneva [Kane County] ...
- Geneva Chronicle (from 1974)
- Geneva Patrol (from 1899)
- Kane County Advertiser (from 18??)
- Kane County Republican (from 185?)
- The Friday Patrol (from 1909)
- The Geneva Republican (from 1909)
- The Geneva Republican (from 1878)
- The Owl (from 1886)
- The Patrol (from 1884)
- The Patrol (from 1904)
- The Public Good (from 1914)
- The Tuesday Patrol (from 1909)
- The Womans' Republican (from 18??)
- Twice-A-Week Republican (from 1896)
- Western Mercury (from 18??)
- Published In Rochelle [Ogle County] ...
- Hub City Leader (from 1938)
- Morris' Rochelle Herald (from 1881)
- Northern Illinois Democrat (from 1933)
- Rapalee's Greenbacker (from 1879)
- Rochelle Free Lance (from 1896)
- Rochelle Herald (from 1883)
- Rochelle Home Journal (from 1928)
- Rochelle Leader (from 1934)
- Rochelle News-Leader (from 1994)
- The Daily Register (from 1874)
- The Life (from 1970)
- The National Greenbacker (from 1878)
- The Rochelle Independent Rochelle Register (from 1926)
- The Rochelle Independent (from 1897)
- The Rochelle Independent (from 1872)
- The Rochelle News (from 1921)
- The Rochelle Register (from 1865)
- The Rochelle Telephone (from 1879)
- The Semi-Weekly Rochelle Register (from 18??)
- The Tri-County Courier (from 1897)
- Published In Saint Charles [Kane County] ...
- Bartlett Press (from 2007)
- Prairie Messenger (from 1846)
- St. Charles Leader (from 18??)
- St. Charles Patriot And Fox River Herald (from 1842)
- The Age (from 1843)
- Years of publication: 1843 to 18??
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Age
- Holdings for: LCCN SN82006885
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 8807999
- The Batavia Republican
- The Elburn Republican (from 1981)
- The North Aurora Republican (from 1981)
- The Northern Granger (from 1873)
- The Peoples Platform (from 1848)
- The Saint Charles Review (from 1878)
- The St. Charles Chronicle
- The St. Charles Republican (from 1989)
- The St. Charles Transcript (from 1871)
- The Sugar Grove Republican
- The Valley Chronicle (from 1881)
- Published In Sandwich ...
- Free Press (from 1963)
- Sandwich Free Press (from 1970)
- Sandwich Free Press (from 1873)
- Sandwich Gazette (from 1860)
- Sandwich Record (from 1985)
- Sandwich Semi-Monthly News (from 1865)
- The Argus (from 1882)
- The Daily Argus (from 18??)
- The People's Press (from 1857)
- The Sandwich Argus (from 1885)
- The Sandwich Gazette (from 18??)
- The Weekly Argus (from 1878)
- Today
- The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in current
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Today
- Holdings for: LCCN SN83003320
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 10066781
- Tri-County Today (from 1976)
- Published In Somonauk ...
- Somonauk Reveille (from 1875)
- The Somonauk Reporter (from 1994)
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Chronicling America
The official website for Cortland: www.cortlandil.org/
The official website for DeKalb County: www.dekalbcounty.org/
The official website for State of Illinois: https://illinois.gov
Footnotes ...
<1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Cortland) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Cortland. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.9194, Longitude: -88.6811 In this case, the coordinates for Cortland have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |