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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Essex.

Our newspaper information for Essex is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.

We don't know of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Essex. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding Essex. Our list contains 68 papers that were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<1> of Essex.

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 Essex.  

Newspapers Neighboring Essex ...

The following newspapers were published within 24 miles [38.6 km] of Essex.

The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Essex.

  • Published In Braidwood [Will County] ...
  • Published In Gardner [Grundy County] ...
    • Gardner Independent (from 1876)
    • The Chronicle (from 18??)
    • The Enterprise (from 1876)
    • The Gardner Chronicle (from 191?)
  • Published In Reddick  ...
  • Published In Coal City [Grundy County] ...
    • The Coal City Courant
  • Published In Wilmington [Will County] ...
  • Published In Herscher  ...
    • Herscher Pilot (from 1976)
    • Herscher Press (from 19??)
    • The Herscher Pilot
  • Published In Dwight [Livingston County] ...
  • Published In Mazon [Grundy County] ...
  • Published In Emington [Livingston County] ...
  • Published In Kankakee  ...
  • Published In Morris [Grundy County] ...
  • Published In Chebanse [Iroquois County] ...
  • Continue List   (9 more) ...
    • Published In Manteno  ...
      • Manteno Market (from 1886)
        • The first year of publication was in 1886, with an unknown end date
        • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
        • Catalog Card for the Manteno Market
        • Holdings for:   LCCN SN95066054
        • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 32038957
      • The Manteno News
        • 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 Manteno News
        • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91055286
        • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 24163220
    • Published In Minooka [Grundy County] ...
    • Published In Cullom [Livingston County] ...
    • Published In Odell [Livingston County] ...
    • Published In Peotone [Will County] ...
    • Published In Seneca [La Salle County] ...
      • Seneca Weekly Journal (from 1873)
      • The Bumble Bee (from 1893)
      • The Seneca News (from 1895)
        • The first year of publication was in 1895, with an unknown end date
        • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
        • Catalog Card for The Seneca News
        • Holdings for:   LCCN SN92053259
        • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 25816108
    • Published In Ashkum [Iroquois County] ...
      • Ashkum Journal
        • The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in 1953
        • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
        • Catalog Card for the Ashkum Journal
        • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87082513
        • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 15373752
      • The Ashkum Gazette (from 1875)
    • Published In Joliet [Will County] ...
      • We know of 67 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Joliet. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Joliet
      • We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 24 miles [38.6 km]<1> of Essex. This extended list includes all the papers from Joliet. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Essex
    • Published In Ransom [La Salle County] ...
      • The Ransom Journal

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- Essex) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Essex. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.1805, Longitude: -88.1858